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by bombcar
Tue Dec 10, 2024 1:49 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: What exactly happens with my vanilla save when i buy the DLC
Replies: 14
Views: 1634

Re: What exactly happens with my vanilla save when i buy the DLC

If you already loaded your save in 2.0 the biggest change has already happened - your rail curves changed. Old ones continue to exist but I don’t think you can build them anymore.

If you then enable space age, some tech will move around. There are rumors that it would delete some items you ...
by bombcar
Sun Dec 08, 2024 2:29 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Quality Gating is flawed
Replies: 60
Views: 12682

Re: Quality Gating is flawed

Quality actually feels quite nice so far for me - I can dabble in it and get some serious rewards (quality even to uncommon and rare of certain things is really nice - armor and equipment, spacecraft components (not platform!), accumulators and solar panels, power poles).

Legendary after “endgame ...
by bombcar
Fri Dec 06, 2024 2:39 pm
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Train's CTRL-click Temporary Stop behavior [passed -> inactive]
Replies: 4
Views: 573

Re: Train's CTRL-click Temporary Stop behavior [passed -> inactive]

This could be handled by interrupts.

Make it so if you name an interrupt “Temporary Stop” it calls that interrupt when arriving at a temporary stop.

Then you program the interrupt how you’d like.
by bombcar
Wed Dec 04, 2024 11:13 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Space Age is the worst game ever
Replies: 42
Views: 14882

Re: Space Age is too hard

Gleba is hard because it punishes the thing everyone has done since time immemorial in Factorio - let belts backup by overproduction.

Fulgora is hard until you work out how to cycle and sort.

Once both are solved it’s relatively easy - except gleba throws enemies at you that the standard wall ...
by bombcar
Wed Dec 04, 2024 11:01 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Looking At Achievement Percentages...
Replies: 19
Views: 1978

Re: Looking At Achievement Percentages...

As can be seen by the steam (lol) achievement on steam only 20% or so have played much of anything (unmodded) which is actually pretty high for a steam game - many people buy games aspirationally or with the intent to play but don’t get around to it.

And there are certainly decent numbers of ...
by bombcar
Wed Dec 04, 2024 12:41 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Reddit is terrible for Factorio spoilers
Replies: 7
Views: 1125

Re: Reddit is terrible for Factorio spoilers

The only real spoilers I felt I shouldn’t have seen were how to deal with the fauna …
by bombcar
Tue Dec 03, 2024 1:28 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Do you care about infrastructure costs? Does it matter?
Replies: 14
Views: 2442

Re: Do you care about infrastructure costs? Does it matter?

I optimize by building the next one better.

I won’t replace my iron factories with the new Vulcanus machines but by NEW iron expansion certainly is using them.

Eventually I remember the dead ore patches and deconstruct them.
by bombcar
Mon Dec 02, 2024 2:40 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Do you care about infrastructure costs? Does it matter?
Replies: 14
Views: 2442

Re: Do you care about infrastructure costs? Does it matter?

Death world is the only one that it really matters on, and then only early game as you need to minimize pollution so you don’t get overwhelmed. Most death worlds that die die in a loop of “mining to make the weapons/ammo results in more attacks than the weapons/ammo can deal with”.

But you pass a ...
by bombcar
Sun Dec 01, 2024 7:01 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: How come rail supports can be on oil ocean, but nothing else?
Replies: 5
Views: 1166

Re: How come rail supports can be on oil ocean, but nothing else?

My only annoyance is that I have two islands close enough that I can connect them with a single logistic network (barely) but it makes a U shape and bots die outside the lightning protection.

So it would be nice to be able to (research) oil pylons for the lightning rods only.

But I get what the ...
by bombcar
Sat Nov 30, 2024 3:49 pm
Forum: Duplicates
Topic: [2.0.19] Performance Degradation when looking at 15K+ spaceship inventory
Replies: 3
Views: 520

Re: [2.0.19] Performance Degradation when looking at 15K+ spaceship inventory

My rough calculation is there are about 300 items, times 5 quality levels, so around 1500 - so maybe after 2048 slots in a chest it should switch to Logistics style - where it shows one item per "virtual slot" and tells you how many total slots you have.
by bombcar
Thu Nov 28, 2024 6:56 pm
Forum: Not a bug
Topic: [Pard] [2.0.20] Space Platform Tips and Tricks not triggering
Replies: 9
Views: 990

Re: [2.0.20] Space Platform Tips and Tricks not triggering

Seems to have been fixed with 2.0.23
by bombcar
Thu Nov 28, 2024 2:47 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Am i the only one who hates asteroids in orbit?
Replies: 21
Views: 5147

Re: Am i the only one who hates asteroids in orbit?

Don’t build a new ship piecemeal - or if you must have a blueprint that is basically platform and walls around the ship while it loads/builds.

Nauvis is forgiving and lets you figure out what you’re doing, but if you’re deploying elsewhere it should be prepared to fight from the beginning (a two ...
by bombcar
Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:37 pm
Forum: Not a bug
Topic: [Pard] [2.0.20] Space Platform Tips and Tricks not triggering
Replies: 9
Views: 990

Re: [2.0.20] Space Platform Tips and Tricks not triggering

Supposedly

Code: Select all

/unlock-tips
will unlock all tips, but that would be ... all - including spoilers.

They say it doesn't disable achievements ...
by bombcar
Mon Nov 25, 2024 4:07 pm
Forum: Not a bug
Topic: [Pard] [2.0.20] Space Platform Tips and Tricks not triggering
Replies: 9
Views: 990

Re: [2.0.20] Space Platform Tips and Tricks not triggering

I have a similar issue - I have not received any tips & tricks after the quality ones; I've reached volcanus from YouTube tutorials but haven't a thing in the tips.

As far as I know I didn't skip anything. I also don't know how I could manually "trigger" them to appear

factorio-current.log ...
by bombcar
Thu Nov 21, 2024 7:15 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Higher rarity space platform
Replies: 11
Views: 1300

Re: Higher rarity space platform

Hares wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 5:45 pm This seems to be fixed in 2.0.15
I'm on 2.0.21 and I can't figure out how to use it. I guess I can only make starter packs with this extra?
by bombcar
Sun Nov 17, 2024 12:20 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: It takes too long to get to new Space Age content
Replies: 28
Views: 9071

Re: It takes too long to get to new Space Age content

The biggest things I see as “easier” are the quality weapons that - if you focus on them when you can (a few miners with quality mods and a splitter to sort are all you really need) you become quite powerful early game.

Biters shouldn’t be an issue at all.

If it DOES feel too long and you’ve ...
by bombcar
Tue Nov 12, 2024 4:45 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Coming back after a few year Hiatus, Differences between .16 and 2.0?
Replies: 23
Views: 3261

Re: Coming back after a few year Hiatus, Differences between .16 and 2.0?

You can review a "QoL changes" YouTube video for the biggest ones, but that will really be between 1.1 and 2.0.

So far the main thing I've noticed is some slightly different ordering for researches, different recipes in some cases, and the ability to blueprint loaded turrets (this is the biggest ...
by bombcar
Tue Nov 12, 2024 4:41 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: The Restart Loop
Replies: 11
Views: 1752

Re: The Restart Loop

I used to restart all the time, and for pretty minor things (oh no, my base isn't aligned with this new rail blueprint I want to use, etc).

Then I realized that restarting only makes sense very early game (bad biters, bad start) - because once you get construction robots, you can restart your ...
by bombcar
Sun Nov 10, 2024 2:36 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: WUBE please fix pump to tanker load on curves
Replies: 1
Views: 574

Re: WUBE please fix pump to tanker load on curves

An ugly solution is use a pusher locomotive so that you don’t waste straight rail on the locomotive.

A cleaner solution would be to allow the station signal to be on the first part of the curve.
by bombcar
Fri Nov 08, 2024 2:46 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #436 - Lost in Translation
Replies: 81
Views: 16916

Re: Friday Facts #436 - Lost in Translation



I almost hate to say this, because I've got really used to the name.... but....
In English, we would generally say "Iron Rod", and not "Iron Stick".


That's been mentioned plenty of times before (including by me) and they've kept it as-is. So I assume they really like it this way.


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