I'm a big fan of lightning weapons.. and this just isn't it. It's a proton-beam cannon with a electrical secondary effect, perhaps a paser turret. Lightning should be jarring, sudden, explosive. It should strike like.. a bolt of lightning. Booming, not the sustained whine of the current particle bea...

Lovely except for the trees. I can't shake the feeling that there used to be regular forests here but last week the planet became too hot. They need to be more alien to not register as trees in my brain. I also find it weird that random ones are on fire rather than the ones closest to lava. If it wa...

Yay, more graphs again! Interesting that although Rseding's commit count is higher, the line count is similar to Posila and Wheybegs. Almost as if Rseding is doing more bugfixes and Posila/Wheybegs were doing more features. Other devs probably did features that were more difficult to get right. And ...

There's still some concern about people building straight lines across input/output (since the refinery will only take 1 input and 1 output) and then being confused by "Can't mix fluids." when switching the refining recipe, as that has been observed a few times (Edit to clarify: With the ...

How about bringing out more colour for the very small scalings? Have it become clearly blue or yellow rather than a muddled grey. At some point the details disappear anyway and all you have left is colour.

Alright. An alternative would be for labs to track pack consumption incrementally.

Just tripped over this and spent an hour diagnosing. For perspective if you disabled stats entirely when using lab chaining people would be quite upset but since we have bogus stats people don't notice.

Counting item merger as "consumption" sounds like the correct and reasonable solution.

The upgrade planner allows converting between regular pipe and underground pipe. This allows you to place an underground pipe where you wouldn't normally be allowed, connecting two distinct fluid networks. It shows fluid from one and tinting from the other. Building more pipes causes it to flip back...

I'm a little bothered that logistic chests are shaped like iron chests but use steel chests in the recipe (unless that changed but I doubt it.)

The and/or buttons should be moved up half a row, aligning them between conditions (which is their behaviour). My mockup:

Combat needs to be harder. We can have V453000 surviving like that!

More seriously, how is MP combat coming? Any progress on latency hiding when firing your gun?

I really hope the "3 inserters" comment refers to a future FFF of the upcoming version, not just a dead thought that won't be seen for a long time..

I'm happy with all the changes, but the assemblers stand out because the ingredient limit was the wrong way to differentiate them and speed alone isn't enough. They need more interesting differences, such as how they interact with productivity/modules/beacons (which I'm still hoping will get a redes...

For tainting I lean towards the other extreme: once oil touches a network of pipes it marks that entire network as "oil only". It would be impossible to add water to it or I suppose even to connect an existing water network. That leaves fluid tankers explicitly as the only multi-fluid enti...

I once read an article about procedurally generating the facade of a building, placing windows and other details, and using some measurement of entropy to prevent it from becoming spammy noise. I can't find it now but your mention of a point system reminds me of that. Aside, having separate sliders ...

Whoa. My first thought was how different it looked. My second thought was that my eyes were drawn to the icons rather than the beakers, exactly as it should be! It might be possible reduce the noise a bit more by removing the line between the beaker section and the icon section, just having a fade f...

I made a mod that removes beacons and rebalances modules to compensates. Really more of a proof of concept but you might want to give it a try, V.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/SimpleModules

I never would have thought cheat engine would have harmed the devs, particularly for single player. Could you add a flag to the crash report if it's involved, maybe just by checking the process list? (And if one of those crash reports is actually multiplayer we're gonna need to break out the paddles...

Steps: 1) Add a mod that disables the final tier of an upgradable tech, e.g. "efficacy-module-3" 2) Start a sandbox game and research all technologies 3) Open the technology screen and search for "efficiency". No efficiency module tech is in the search results, although efficienc...

Jon8RFC wrote:What's going on with the terrain here:

This is probably the known issue issue that'll get fixed properly in 0.17. For now it's very subtle so they don't want to break 0.16 any further.

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