Aleatory - adjective - depending on the throw of a dice or on chance; random.

Nice. Learned a new word. Thanks!

orzelek wrote:Your tech doesn't matter for scaling. Only the evolution factor which is influenced by time, pollution and killing of spawners.

Yep. For a fun, survival mode challenge, avoid upgrading to laser turrets and see how long/far you can develop using only gun turrets and ammo production.

Finally, I just want to thank you guys for taking steps outside the box, and creating a game that many people don't have the creativity or the guts to make. You guys are awesome, and keep up the great work : D Hahaha.. Reads just like my first post here! Totally agree, Factorio is a real gem. The d...

I already have a train infrastructure, why not use it for oil too? Oil barrels are reusable. I only make about 40 barrels for a whole game and they're emptied and refilled endlessly as they ride around on my trains. To span a distance of 1000 tiles using underground pipes (15 iron for 11 spaces) = ~...

My guy sleeps in an old train car.

1. You can use underground pipes in a staggered pattern to run them really tight. It can make connecting them a pain though.


2. Dunno.

Heya! I'm currently running 11.19, 64-bit. I added some pusher locomotives to the backs of all my trains for some extra acceleration. While attempting to fuel them, I noticed the inserter in the image will endlessly insert coal while the train is stopped. The coal doesn't end up in the locomotive th...

Maybe seeing a big factory in action would give you some ideas? I've got a sandbox level I use to test designs and stuff in. The factory is mostly finished and there are thousands of resources to play with. The factory uses a 'bus' design like you'd see in electronics; parallel belts with everything...

I use Psycho's patented Barrel Counter System ™ to move oil in from outposts. :P It's a little tricky to explain it but it works really simply. Once the offloading station at the main base is built, expansions are easy to set up. The mining stations out in the world don't need any fancy wiring and c...

Hahah.. Alright then. Visible light (photons) only accounts for ~40% of the energy spectrum emitted by our sun though. If we assume we have a high-tech panel that can absorb the entire electromagnetic spectrum, and a star with a vastly different spectral irradiance curve, could we have a reasonable ...

Sorry, but a world that bright would just cook. Even two times brighter will kill all life. Indeed the amount of solar power is limited to a relative small zone around a sun (relative in astronomical measures): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstellar_habitable_zone So the logical conclusion is: ...

I don't mind installing it, just wanted to do it later™ as I was doing other stuff with the machine (surface scan on one hard drive, pulling backups on another; I'm doing a hardware upgrade for a buddy of mine). It's cool though, I'd found a simple workaround shortly after posting here and am severa...

I just updated from stable. I'd really like to check out the experimental.
Thanks though.

Hey, I just updated to the experimental build to check out the new stuff and got the following error when I started the game. "Error: Factorio Requires Service Pack 1 on Windows 7. Current OS: Windows 7" I work 13 days on, 1 day off, 12 hour shifts but I managed to get a couple days off an...

You should be more polite in a forum full of fanboys. ;) Hahaha.. :D It's so true too. I'm starting to fear that this game might become another Minecraft I hope so. The devs deserve the success. They followed the same recipe for a great game; game mechanics first. I for one really appreciate the de...

Most of the time is spent at the ore loading spot, for me at least. Trying to get the station set up. Have you tried just building a prototype train station, copying it, and using a roboport and some constructions bots to just pop it in place out where you need it? I usually set up the miners while...

Excellent. I get to abuse my calculator again. :twisted: Say you had a big hungry factory; it requires 10,000 items per minute (copper, iron, coal, stone). Say those resources were 1000 tiles away. At ~1800 items per minute per express belt, you'd need 6 Express belts side-by-side to get the throug...

the game is already worth the money. It really is. For the number of hours it's entertained me, it's easily one of the top 3 best value games I've ever purchased. As for the developers, they're the best in the industry. They listen to and communicate with the community, they always smash bugs befor...

BurnHard wrote:My savegamesize went down from 130MB to 13MB, thx.

Same here, huge reduction in savegame size! 18Mb down from 130Mb and much shorter autosave pauses!

Great patch, much thanks guys!

That huge glass sphere looks super-expensive! It does look pretty cool though. My son and I are building (another) panel right now for our little solar setup. The cells arrived a few days ago (super cheap broken/chipped/cracked ones from MLSolar) and we'll probably work on them over the weekend. It ...