For serious biter infestations, I install vehicle grid and personal generator mods. Then the locomotive can defend itself. I also use huge trains(4-8 at least), since those can barrel through even behemoths. With a huge train loaded with personal lasers, you can expect a train to never end up dead ...

I do not like the oil changes, particularly moving conbots later.

Adding the equipment grid to tank would be a lot of fun yeah.

Gimme! :D

Okay, we have two devs saying they want it. It's already in the game to the extent that it can easily be used by mods. We better get this in vanilla.

Whilst it sounds great (and hence I also want it), I suspect it ...

A simple buff for the tank would be to make it more of a juggernaut.
Let it drive over trees and small biters without slowing down and taking much damage. That would make tank combat feel distinctly different from the car or power armor combat.


Making it push biters in addition to damaging them ...

The tank also easily gets stuck and doesn't have a good way to defend itself when it happens. The nerf to the machine gun will make this worse. The tank should have more armor, more crushing power, a real flamethrower instead of the torch, and the main cannon should instagib anything short of a ...

When implementing deprecation of mods on the mod portal, please give us the ability to include deprecated mods in our searches. I have dug up abandoned mods multiple times with the goal of using their guts in something of mine.

Currently, when a power switch is controlling a group of buildings, the "no power" sprite is the same as if power were simply disconnected. This causes some confusion, particularly in multiplayer, and frequently people "fix" the lack of power by adding power poles. Naturally, this breaks whatever ...

I do not like the idea of a minimum range for the flamethrower. It's entirely counterintuitive and will make it annoying to use. It already damages the player, why does it need a minimum range also?

5x7, now that's what I could live with:

Seems like my 5x7 solution is the most compact one presented in the thread to date that still supports full throughput. 5x7 = 35 tiles, 6x6 would still be 36 tiles.


I really like this design because it should easily fit anywhere where two lanes are ...

The new flamethrower is much better. Why on earth would I not want the flamethrower to spray where I tell it to?

I'd like a spriteset for a heavy locomotive. It should be the same size as the default Factorio locomotive. It should look something like an armored-up SD70(the picture) in Factorio's graphical style.

BenediktMagnus wrote:Very interesting mod!

But I think seronis is right: Why not another train with that values instead of a replacement? You could use both trains and don't miss the standard one.

I think I might do this. I'll go beg for a cargo locomotive spriteset.

Regarding trains, why not just make train max speed affected significantly less by the number of wagons its pulling? Then we'd be able to build giant steel snakes instead of the tiny things we use now.

Longer Trains

Description:
This mod makes long trains more viable.
This mod increases locomotive power and mass, making long trains more viable. Probably not so great for double-header trains, though.

Details:

Name: LongerTrains (this should be exactly the same as in info.json!)
MOD ...

Am I doing this right? I'm producing power, but it just feels wrong. The one on the right was the final blueprinted design. That north pressurized water tank is not connected to that normal water pipe, even though it looks it. The lone steam engine is an overflow dump.

http://i.imgur.com/S8rMJi3 ...

It appears that one cannot discover new resources with radar in this mod. I'm using SnoopyTiga radar and the resources and bugs don't show up on the map until I drive over to the big blank areas.

How does this compare with underground pipes?

sekanz wrote:I, for one, am excited about the new features. So the bases are going to be larger... I'm all for it! What factorio player wouldn't like some additional complexity?

Additional complexity is detrimental when it doesn't add anything meaningful.

Pohybel wrote:Is there a chance for compatibility with 12.20.

What? I've been using it with 12.20...

Hey Alyx, I love the mod, and didn't want all the weird terraforming stuff in Natural Evolution, so I've been keeping the mod up to date.

Mod now compatible with 12.11.