Hi Win7 / 64 I did a herdprotect scan, and factoriotestunit.exe gets flagged as suspicious File name:factoriotestunit.exe MD5:d557519d172d131ecac4ce8d2e708179 SHA-1:0b4a725a1f50684c4981cbb079a1ab7a69085419 SHA-256:7f6cabfbe800e193a15513e36563be158a55702cb0d3b4660460bedb971b0e25 Analysis Scanner dete...

A research-hut at the beginning of the game might be a cool idea. One would have to bring specific materials and wait. You would get the science lab/science packs only after researching it in the hut.

E) SpaceEngineers style: Buildings by themselves are placed as blueprints only, players (and later machinery) finalize the construction by inserting necessary resources and constructing the building. F) All at once: Players and machinery can craft "buildings" crates (C) so they can be eas...

I would like to see some kind of pollution-cleaner and keeping aliens for farming. To "tame" a colony, they may not have been polluted at all. They will be angry at first, and attack your walls etc, but you cannot shoot them(only keep repairing), because if you kill one, they become hostil...

I have to agree on buffering along the production-lines. The belts should provide ample buffer. Still I like to have a nice buffer of iron and copper-plates, so that I don't have to keep track of the resources all the time.:-P It's the same with excessive use of logistic bots. Most of the robots sho...