I honestly think it'd be great if AM1 was burner powered. Players are forced too early and too hard to get electricity and there's too many new concepts being piled on players in the early game as is. As a burner device it is almost enough burner content for players to run a complete burner tier ...

I'd add the stack size bonus that applies to normal inserters and even burner inserters. Voila, suddenly all your inserters have double or triple speed. How is that possible? Also magic beacons that somehow make things move faster.

Factorio basically IS the freeplay right now. People know it as a sandbox, all the reviews laud it as a sandbox, most of the millennia of combined youtube videos of the game treat it as a sandbox.

This sets expectations, true. We can never change it then as someone would be disappointed.

"We ...

Before you continue that train of thought, ask yourself if the game losing its magic isn't the normal process of playing a game for hundreds of hours and knowing every corner of it. Vanilla Factorio did most things right because it hooked x thousands of players for hundreds of hours, look around ...

A puzzle needs something non-obvious to be a puzzle. A drop in replacement of AM2 if AM1 is not good enough is NOT a puzzle, there is no brain-activity necessary for this.


If they had different sizes (e.g. 2x3, 3x3, 3x4) it would be a nice puzzle.


You two don't understand what the ...

But since when are power lines lossy?
They aren't lossy right now. It's a global electric network teleporting the resource "electricity" without additional consideration or complexity required.

The fluid network is almost the same. Only in some cases you need to think about the throughput of ...

meganothing wrote: Sun Oct 28, 2018 12:31 pm A puzzle needs something non-obvious to be a puzzle. A drop in replacement of AM2 if AM1 is not good enough is NOT a puzzle, there is no brain-activity necessary for this.

If they had different sizes (e.g. 2x3, 3x3, 3x4) it would be a nice puzzle.

@avezo, @ske: Are you two trying reverse psychology on Wube or just trolling?


Neither. I'm following the train of thought. Right now, the state of factorio gives me the impression that it is a great game engine with a large collection of features, stable code and well polished graphics. But it ...

Continuing the train of thought here: Replace the different versions of chests, belts, inserters, machines with a single version of each plus research upgrades.

Going further: Bots could be replaced with a global chest. Lossy pipes could be replaced with global fluid storage. Lossy power lines with ...

*bitters

So why don't we have graphic cards that send out screen refreshes to the monitor when we tell them to? Why not send frame 1 after 10ms, frame 2 after 17ms, frame 3 after 12ms and so on. Why can't the monitor update when we tell them to instead at a fixed rate that we have to keep up with?


This ...

Nice post on technical details. I always like learning about some detail of the internals.

One thing crossing my mind is: What's the goal? Is this necessary? Why? Who would benefit from that? How many are they? How much time does it cost? Are there other issues that are more pressing?

Another ...

bobingabout wrote: Thu Oct 04, 2018 7:49 am Bob's laser robot drones might become useful.

I tried to google it and found this instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR7vwRC6SFE (link highly relevant)

Electrical networks which can "burn out" their upstream thin cables if you over-use them seem sensible. The UPS cost will be enormous, though.


This thinking is beautiful. Maybe the cables will just glow red/white hot instead of burning out. This would give the player a good indication of where ...

Nice!

Do I understand correctly that it would be a stretch to expect 0.17 this year?


As I understood they wanted 0.17 to be the last version before 1.0 is released. Therefore all the nice features that they really really want need to be crammed in before it's too late. That is combined with a ...

Could we apply this system to the electric network when we employ the following changes?


The high voltage network (big masts) are sparsely connected. Like they are already now.
The new fluid system is applied to the high voltage network.
Transformers actually act as transformers between the ...

Do the new enemies correlate with terrain and/or resources?

Would there be strong uranium-themed worms/biters living on/near uranium fields?

Do the sand-worms differ from land-worms or water-worms?

Do worms living close to the water or in shallow water snatch fishes if they swim too close?

GenBOOM wrote:I think while you are redoing map generation you should look into adding rivers.

Rivers and an ocean would be neat. They can divide an area into two fully connected pieces. When disabling landfill that would make for some interesting landscape.

A further question I have is if resource placement has any dependency on biomes, or could it be through modding?

In vanilla there's no correlation between resources and temperature/moisture (what primarily drives the biomes), but in 0.17 mods will be able to define whatever 'named noise ...

Is the resource placement correlated to the terrain or is the placement chosen independently from the surroundings?

In the starting area it avoids water but what is happening outside of the starting area?