I'm glad you guys see my point.
During a game (which in my case lasts weeks as I can play for 5-6 h per week) I tend to lose track of the "big picture", of the long term strategy. Having at hand a concise summary of previous games would help to plan better and to avoid repeating mistakes.
Together ...

Hi,

I'm not sure this has been proposed already. I would find very useful some sort of log in which main events occurring during the game are recorded, with details of the in-game time.
Technological advances, when you craft an item for the first time, when you kill your 1st-10th-100th-1000th biter ...

cube wrote:<imho>
The labs are not researching how to make steel. You know that, obviously. They are just designing plans for the machines that will make steel.
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Makes sense, technology is not researched but rather developed/implemented.

I've seen similar discussion in last week somewhere. The thing is, that does not have lore explanation. Kovarex posted inspiration he had, but it has got no logical in-game reasoning behind.

Here it is:

The original idea was, that you need to make these machines and experiment with these to ...

Hi everyone,
I have started with factorio 2 weeks ago and I am enjoying it greatly. I mean,I feel like the game has been designed with me in mind, I can't thank the developers enough. Just take my money.

However there is something that bugs me, and I can't help it: It's the way research is done. I ...