he naturally does a zoom out - zoom in. I'd be curious to know if those videos gives motion sickness.

That would definitely minimize the amount of horizontal movement on the screen.

Welcome to factorio. If you want something done faster, build more. More. Always more. Science labs are cheap, and science factories are huge. Chances are you can burn through potions far more quickly than you will ever be able to produce them. If you have a backup of science packs, just place down ...

I wonder if something screwy is happening between your accumulator bridges. Ideally all power should be going from central => outpost so all the numbers should be okay. However there is no explicit reason that energy can't travel from outpostA => central => outpostB, even though the outposts have no...

I'm looking for an excuse to use those expensive and now pretty substations But there already is a valid reason to use substations. They are more effective and easier to use. There was no need to add any extra mechanic at all to push players into using higher tier poles. Just use them for the extra...

But a passive energy drain per pole dosen't punish electricity over distance. It punishes the power poles themselves. The location of the power generators won't be important because the vast majority of power poles are used to cover the factory itself. You could have your huge power plant a distance...

I think this fear of "lowering the maximum factory size" is a bit of a looming shadow over factorio development It's true that players will never give up their incredibly huge factories for anything. But rather than worry about what players will think (everyone is an angry grandpa who pushed their ...

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Fri Nov 30, 2018 3:38 pm

I mean, the poster does not represent actual gameplay that makes sense, but this should propably be fixed:
(the cut off inserster "hand")

The inserter is adding items into the requester chest? Literally unplayable.

It's wonderful that players want and need more factory and will destroy any obstacle on their way to industrialization, even if the obstacle is the very physics of the game itself.

As a mod developer i have no access to any of the tools used by wube in-house, so the "environment" part of the definition definetly doesn't fit. Ofc this applies to almost every game. So is an engine still an engine when installed on the customers system without any of the tools? I'll call it an e...

This is more an issue with portable solar panels being so damn awful. NOTHING in factorio gains resource efficiency with tier, yet pocket fusion gives more output at a better resource efficiency than PSPs. That should be a glaring game design clue on just how bad they are. The biggest and easiest fi...

The new substation is neat, but it seems to be very visually "noisy". I mean that it takes a while of staring at it to know what is going on and the important part- that it's a power system- seems to be secondary. Does it really need so many gubbins?

Currently hand crafting takes all the items required for crafting and holds them in a magic space. You can see this for yourself by doing a big craft, the items vanish and go into the queue. If you can customize the queue, you can basically abuse magic storage and break the inventory system. Just st...

I want the rest to be upgraded automatically as I described. What order should pieces be upgraded in? What are the choke points? What is priority for upgrading? If a factory starts upgrading junk at random, it's throwing away resources until every single choke in the production chain gets addressed...

Don't worry I gochu my eff ayy emm. Lore patch incoming. You see the issue is that gates utilize magnetic sensors that detect the motion of swift moving metal objects. They align and calibrate themselves on the planet's magnetic field, conveniently placed on the longitudinal axis, while stabilizing ...

The problem then is that factorios game goal of an ever expanding factory has bad compatibility with any sort of atmospheric low-vision scenario, Night time does not last long and it's hardly an obstacle to growing the factory, but the factorio solution to any inconvenience is simple. Build more st...

There is the possibility of removing barrels from the game entirely. It'd take a few changes to be really viable. - A fluid moving logistic bot. Basically a flying barrel that only carries liquids. - Logistic fluid tanks. Take a tank, put a pump on top and let bots use it as requester or provider. T...

Wow, gates really can't be placed on diagonal rails. That definitely seems like an oversight.

I liked the idea where you hover over a train on the map, and it highlights all the rail segments the train has access to. For bonus points it could also color code the highlighted rails depending on the train signal colors. It's not too demanding on the game (1 overlay for 1 train at player request...

If you look at my suggestion I'm not talking about a manual upgrade planner. I'm talking about an automatic one where you define what you want to upgrade (same as upgrade planner) but the robots automatically upgrade parts of your factory they pick if you have enough items in stock. This way eventu...

I've seen enough degenerate crap to know that most of those topics only exist as flamebait and go nowhere. It doesn't matter what website you go to or what people discuss them, they all turn into the exact same back and forth flame war in the end. So don't feel bad if a mod nips it in the bud, it's ...