But how will you know which servers are still online if the list is outdated? Which has the potential to spiral out of control over time. As more and more servers become ghosts on your list, and you keep trying to connect to dead servers.

Amateurs, the lot of you.

What should happen is biters make a nest on your corpse, and spawns 3 Behemoths that go off in different directions. One of them ate your corpse, and now you have to go hunt it down to get your stuff back.

In principle this is an interesting idea, but clearly you've already anticipated the problems it would create, in terms of a player creating a personal chest that gets in the way and no one else being able to remove it or interact with it.

But if another player can destroy or otherwise interact ...

This might interest you then.

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-260 (rework 1)
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-274 (rework 2)

(from water)
pressure_to_speed_ratio = 0.4,
flow_to_energy_ratio = 0.59

The thing about oil is that it seems very out of place for this game as if it was designed with a very different mindset for an entirely different game.

in other system in this game do we have to jump these hoops in order to get the product and it can still get errors.
Actually the good thing ...

I only ever bother with a rocket launch. Theres really been no reason to do megabases, when I'd much rather solve a "new terrain" problem.


you might like Space Exploration, where 'new terrain' is a rocket launch away.


The pinnacle of the Engineer's life cycle.... to build a ship to go back ...

If I understand it correctly, the logic works in reverse. The Bots don't look for jobs, the jobs look for bots to fill them. The black box is in the the order the job queues are processed. Aside from a 1000 jobs per tick limit, and working the whole queue before starting over from the top, I haven't ...

I only ever bother with a rocket launch. Theres really been no reason to do megabases, when I'd much rather solve a "new terrain" problem.

Steam based power (engines and turbines) only consumes steam when generating electricity. If the power grid they're connected to has no demand, then it won't produce power. if you drop an inserter next to one of the power poles, you'll see the engine start running (slowly) due to the idle power cost ...

what exactly are you trying to make happen?

Thinking about it..... I wonder if Zerg music would set the OP off. Also might wanna stay away from the new 40k Mechanicus game. "The weak of mind shall not be saved from flesh" (robotface)

When the music is so successful at setting a mood, it triggers people with anxiety. Thats a mark of some top tier music.

Well... the most direct approach is to have an strike-through over the item icon. But I don't know off hand if this can be a layer, or if they'll have to double the number of icons to incorporate the visual.

As for the origins of the terms...... Black list goes way back. Light research (not just ...

What was it?

Well... this is new information. As far as I've seen, theres never been much headway on isolating it, because theres not enough info to intentionally replicate it. usually suffering at the hands of unknown network configurations.

But if theres different subnets, it means theres routing involved ...

All the stages are the same thing though..... the only difference found is in how effective the player's designs are.

I can see applications for mega factories to compact fluid networks. But thats about the only value it would have in vanilla.

A simpler way to go about it is post-rocket research to either increase pipe capacity, or change the coefficient on fluid transfer. Implementing pipe tiers would require ...

you mean whitelist vs blacklist?

well..... all those MP servers are actual servers. So the headless server has its UPS rate, and the Admins put a fairly large amount of effort into making sure thats its stable.

If we're thinking in purely network terms, Ethernet performance can be a major factor. Especially in the case of Wifi ...

my opinion was the dev team never really grasped what made Factorio a success. There were so many aspects added to the game that they had slaved over that while technically impressive didn't improve the game.

Factorio's main appeal over other games was :
resource logistics
factory optimisation ...