The steam engine ramping down is a good thing for difficulty. Why? Because boilers make pollution, and pollution brings in biters. If the player builds too many boilers, they'd drown in biter spam regardless of their actual factory production. Skilled players would see very little gameplay change, b...

Why not fix the land with some landfill? Bulldoze the waste, replace with good land. It'd be a simple and handy mod.

Factory production in Factorio is incredibly fast paced. Most objects produce in seconds, and fractions of a second with beacons. Inventory space is large and trains have monolithic item transporting rates. Frankly, if you want more factory or train networks, it makes sense to start nerfing things. ...

Even if a knockback effect proves troublesome, a stun effect would be very useful for mitigating melee damage.

Of course, neither approach is very useful for surviving an acid bath.

It would probably make more sense to have the connectors between the power plants be altered in some way. Visual clues are the best clues, and a clue directly between adjacent plants is a pretty good clue.

I think roboport priorities can be best resolved by letting players set their desired roboport radius. A tighter radius definitely launches bots on shorter errands and they work more efficiently as a result. Some quick modding with -5 radius on the mk.1 and mk.2 definitely gets the bots working more...

Currently there are two major types of remotes in the game, one to launch artillery and one to control the spidertron. Currently these remotes must be used manually, but what if the remotes themselves could be automated? Enter the booper, a device made strictly for pushing buttons on the remote. It'...

Personal roboports only make green zones, they don't make orange zones.

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AAAAAAHHHHH KILL IT WITH FIRE AAAAAAHHHHHHH

Ooh, a reason to rush out those efficiency modules. Playing a pure green style is a challenge all its own, but it's not impossible to avoid dealing serious damage to the environment. At least, it is quite doable until you start cranking up the marathon death world settings.

I'm a bit surprised that so much of the land mine is left behind considering that, you know, they're kinda supposed to explode.

ske wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 04, 2020 10:53 am

Why does the "plug" in the power switch have two prongs while there is only one wire on the poles?

It's a proper 3 wire system if the red and green signal wires are used. But obviously gameplay trumps all.

I clicked the rocket, rocket go fooosh.

A troll with grenades or a troll with a nuke can do much more damage than purging your pipe network. It might be okay to give the purge effect some inertia. If it drained the system at a finite (but fast) rate, that gives the player some reaction time to go "oh shi" while still letting pla...

It's amazing how difficult the fluid mixing system has been to deal with. It probably would have been easier to have a warning icon whenever fluids crash in the pipe network. That and the new pipe flushing system could have taken care of most things.

I don't understand the perils of being color blind, but some of the solutions to color blindness fall under the same category as good game design. Palette swaps are generally gross, make sure that in game icons are visually distinct in some way. For example, the 3 types of modules are identical, but...

What this means, is to produce all 100 percentage points of the rocket, you only need to supply the silo with 5/7 of the materials, or about 72%. That 40% Productivity translates to a roughly 28% materials savings in terms of parts per rocket. But it's 28% material savings for each step of the way....

Ah, but if you VM a linux machine to host a server, then you can get the fork command in windows for the async save. #bigthink

This These values also includes some optimizations implemented by Rseding.

You're going to kill the proofreading team at this rate!

Eiermann wrote: ↑

Sat May 16, 2020 5:24 pm

I would separate the resources in Level 05 because it would just confuse new players when you end up with a mixed up belt and everything gets stuck.

But that's also a good challenge for players to contend with. Better to teach it early rather than never.