As a game dev, unless you're doing something that doesn't have a lot of gpu pressure like age of empires or civ or something, unicode is not your friend from a rendering perspective.


Factorio already uses UTF-8 for strings and their own glyph cache for rendering (at least as of https://forums ...

1% solar power isn't going to stop people from doing full solar bases.

I sure hope that stacked items don't freeze together. They'd be a pain to pull apart!
Logi bots are going to have trouble operating in such a hostile and caustic environment.

I'm not quite sure why bacteria have to replace copper and iron recipes, do they really have to? The organic recipes would make sense for replacing oil recipes. Biology always has new strange chemistry to exploit, and living things can be used to produce fuel in an exploitable way. Terrestrial ...

gGeorg wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2024 11:48 am Does the captured, the spawner consume pollution ?

A very important question! Biter nests and pollution have a strong interaction. If the players are going to mess with the nests, how is that going to change pollution mechanics? Will players be able to build their own pollution absorbing farms?

250x250

chunk division is 256x256

250 pipe + 2 pump = 252 length

I am in physical torment right now

Can't wait for mods to play around with these new monster types. It wouldn't be surprising to have a worm spawning mod that adds them to biter waves.

Maybe the PLD was never meant to be the "I win" option from blue science all the way to endgame in the first place. Maybe the devs wanted it to be a transition weapon, or just the defensive weapon that takes care of the defending biters while we destroy the nests and worms by other means.
I won't ...

The PLD nerf probably won't be too bad. Yes 1/3 is a big loss, but at the same time players are getting far stronger low tech tools to play with. The shotgun buff is not trivial, and the combat drone buffs will definitely give stronger forces than before. But the main issue isn't the strength of PLD ...

Combat balance is always a tough one. If anything, nests should probably scale harder. The evolution curve is asymptotic, going from 0 to 0.5 is pretty simple compared to 0.80- 0.90, which is trivial compared to 0.95 to 0.99. If enemies are going to get meaner it's going to be on the very last bits ...

Chrisdasdasd wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2024 11:51 am Ye, ngl. I dislike new spidertron movement. Rest is ok.

The new spider movement is much more organic and triggers those primal creep instincts. The old one definitely had a synthetic and robotic feel to it. They are definitely different moods.

How long will it take before the 5 foot walkers are modded into pink spongebob dude?

Those chonky bois are so big! It's exciting that simple walls won't be effective, those sort of combat mechanics help to make each planet feel more unique.

You can really feel the engineer's "F this planet" vibe at the end of the video. Yeah, Gleba is definitely getting paved.

I think also that all phobia by definition are irrationnals

that's probably in the textbook somewhere.
But yes, the point of a phobia is the person can not reasonably react to it. That's what makes it an uncontrolled fear.

Personal laser defence looks still OP.
All kinds of lasers should get dmg reduced by range. Then dmg at max range is 10% of laser max dmg. Min range has 100% dmg of course.
I think rule of cool applies. Running around zapping everything like an R-type is kinda silly. Remote commanding an army of ...

New type of pollution mechanic? Nice! Not quite what was expected, but it'll work. I hope we get gigantic fans to focus and blow pollen directly where we want it.
5 legs? Gross! Very few regrets with fire based treatments.

Wait, if the atmosphere is all carbon dioxide and such, how will fire ...

All that's missing is a cartoon xray skeleton effect when enemies get zapped. Oh, but they're bugs and don't have internal skeletons, do they?

There may be some merit in launching your science labs to space and making a roaming platform. That way it can fly around picking up packs from all the other planets as needed.

Yeah, that's the one. Who knows if it'll actually work out, but it does take a very novel approach to the fusion problem. Building the sun is very hard, building a very tiny nuclear bomb is easy by comparison. So just do that.

One of the neat parts is you can justify using a far different range of ...

The tokamak is certainly a very recognizable and "sci fi" fusion design, but there was another one in the works that was pretty cool in a brutish way.
It worked by taking small fuel pellets, dropping them, and shooting them mid air with a cannon. Shockwave magic happens, it explodes, and the ...