Though I'm really not a fan of the concept of transporting molten metals being more efficient. For me it falls into the same "utter nonsense" category as steam batteries.


Why? Molten metals are being transported from the smelter to the foundry with trains in the real world all the time ...

That's because the module tiers are a multi-level research similar to eg. projectile damage or mining productivity. The search only shows you the next level of the tech that you can research, hiding the levels beyond that. Once you've unlocked the tier 1 module the corresponding tier 2 module will ...

Large pages are a very specific optimization that only few applications benefit from. For most general desktop apps they would actually be detrimental. Plus they provide the most benefit if only a single application on the system uses them (the CPU has separate TLB caches for large and normal pages ...

I'm pretty sure locomotives don't have names, do they ?


They have, you can see it in the tooltip if you hover the cursor over them.

The only way to change the name is with mods or console scripting though, vanilla doesn't provide any UI for editing it.

The other entities that use backer names ...

TL;DR
Make the screen edge (top, bottom, left, right) used for the hot- and shortcut bars (and the attached alerts if applicable) configurable.


What ?
I think the TL;DR basically covers it already. Maybe exclude the right side as an option as that is already in use by the minimap and tooltips ...

Bad news. I wanted the developers to pay more attention to what Factorio should become as a game, but the developers seem to see Factorio as a finished program.


No, they are looking at the big picture. As Rseding91 pointed out implementing your suggestion would mean losing a very important ...

How about adding a "max-bonus" field to the modifier prototype that is mandatory for type "gun-range"? This wouldn't allow infinite research like with artillery range, but at least a fixed number of range research levels would be possible while still keeping the ability to calculate the max range at ...

Achieving this plus Lazy Bastard plus Getting On Track Like A Pro in a single run would probably be a real challenge for 100% speedruns...

In order to reduce memory consumption and also increase usefulness I would propose, that the fractions of each recipe are shared with all machines executing this recipe. This also would help to don't loose cycles, if you change the machine's recipe.


Doing this on the global level would eg. for ...

how should I replace the scripts?


Start a fresh new freeplay game and save it. Then extract the file "control.lua" from the new save's zip file and replace the "control.lua" in your Nauvis Post Collapse save with it (after making a backup copy first of course).

The script is part of the ...

What I don't get is why failed and successful attempts are handled differently i the first place? Is a failed attempt more costly than a successful one?


At least in theory, yes, failed attempts should on average be more costly than successful attempts. For a successful attempt the game on ...

remains stable through things like changing train composition, rebuilding destroyed trains etc.
I think it’s important to know under which other circumstances the the train will loose that ID? So that we can discuss the different methods, of what should happen in which case.


Trains get a new ...

First I think this is already implemented with the train-id introduced in v0.15 (https://forums.factorio.com
/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=46234).


Not really, because the train id isn't particularly stable, a lot can happen that changes the train id, invalidating all circuits that rely on that id until ...

TL;DR
Add a user settable tag/id value to trains that can be read from train stops through the circuit network.


What ?
I propose adding a numeric tag value to trains which works similar to the existing train id, but is settable by the user and remains stable through things like changing train ...

There is no such thing as an "authorative" server in factory.


That's actually not quite right. The server is authoritative when it comes to player input ordering and timing. That's why latency hiding is necessary in the first place, and why you see rubberbanding when latency hiding switches off ...

Signal 9 is SIGKILL. Assuming noone was messing around and manually killing processes on the server the most likely explanation is that the OP's server simply ran out of memory, which caused the OOM killer to kill the autosave process (the OOM killer uses SIGKILL).

OP, if you still have the server ...

Thanks

When disabling TCP SYN cookies on my Linux system (by setting the net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies sysctl to 0), connections to the Factorio RCON port are no longer possible. The connect just hangs until it eventually times out while the connection shows as SYN_SENT in netstat. Note that all tests were done ...

IMO a simple marker plus a filter whether a server has a whitelist is enough, similar to how there's already a marker and a filter for servers with a password set. If a server has a whitelist, odds are that those on the list already know that they are on it, and also know what exact server they are ...

According to a quick search: yes. 20% to 22% of the world has them. Now, which % has them and uses them as their primary connection I have no idea - some smaller % still.


Google reports that 30% of their users are using their services through native IPv6: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6 ...