Landmines still dont make sense.

Even if they oneshotted any enemy(=dealing 99999 damage), they would be borderline useful.

I agree. Coal liquification, which is actually very complex and cost intensive in terms of infrastructure, should have an easier research. Also maps do respawn in such a way that you actually dont have oil in the beginning. (or there are only 1-3 patches very bad positioned) Coal liquification shoul...

The right one, because the left one can starve itself.

But both setups have too many redundancies imo.

I agree. The 4/4 iron/copper lanes make no sense.

If you have a gear/green ciruit belt each, 1 iron/copper lane is sufficient.

I used to transition to electric furnaces too early in most of my games. If you take a closer look, steel furnaces are actually better than an "empty" electric furnaces. The strategy I like to use is to go from stone furnaces directly to electric furnaces, also because I dont want to produ...

stone is also used in trackage. build more railroads. I could literally build rails EVERYWHERE and would not be able to deplete a 1,5m Stone field... The only thing you can do is to build stone patchs and walls EVERYWHERE and fill every tile of water. But even then you probably face an overabundanc...

I agree. Oil is too abundant (on normal settings) with the new patch. If you start and have a medium sized oil patch in your vicinity and also use light oil for fuel cube it feels about right. However, in most cases there are 2-3 medium(or even big) sized oilpatches nearby and you also dont have to ...

There are 2 aspects in the game I see can need rework. One is the trivial solar energy and the other is the "stone economy". Both aspects can be improved in conjunction with each other. 1, Yes, Nuclear energy IS a worthwhile competitor to solar panels, but Factorio is a game where you want...

The whole "stone economy" is completly imbalanced. Increase stone requirement by x20, then we are about in the range where it makes sense. My suggestions: -Increase concrete cost, so it is in line with stone pavement: 10 Stone bricks + 4 Stone(="Sand") instead of 5 Stone bricks +...

Unnessary. Better consider opportunity cost and integrate content which is actually adding to the game.

I TOTALLY AGREE! Pollution, as it is now, is very problematic. What I dislike most about pollution is, that in early game it leads to attacks from all sides. Usually, when you begin a game you have to spread somewhere out and this becomes very annoying as you are moving slow and constantly getting a...

The best case szenario looks like this: Beaconed machines use more energy per product then normally, but are "better"( =less pollution/product, more producitivity, faster) but then, electricity also needs to be a non-trivial resource. The quasi-infinite nuclear power ist fine, but the sola...

I dont like beacons at all. They are bad game design and should be subsituted. What I prefer: 1, more Tiers of faster production buildings, so beacons become obsolete 2, changed beacons which work only in conjunction with one single production building. The beacon itself is then a modular building t...

Good idea! Nicly explained with picture!

Even if iron and copper were balanced there is another aspect to consider: Using productivity modules in Copper wire production is an additional step which favours copper. So, in a normal game, productivity modules trivializes the copper cost of only product, where copper is dominant(green circuits).

Expansive? I wonder why people use this argument for infrastructure. Infrastructure is incredible cheap compared to science, almost neglectable. (unlike you use T2-3 modules) Personally I use 3 T1 efficiency modules in miners in midgame and when available upgrade assemblers to T3 immidiatly, there i...

I dont see this as necessary because you can use coal for oil. Its actually good that oil is scarce and the player has to subsitute part of his oil processing with coal. And coal scales with distance like the other ores.

Looking into the game file, it does not matter wheter you use engines or turbines for normal boilers.
The ratio is 1:2, so if you use 1 Boiler with 2 Engines or 1 Boiler with 1 Turbine has exactly the same effect.

This is something I wondered about. Yes, heat pipes are very good to store energy.

I agree. The fluid transportation is not well balanced. Both fluid wagon and transportation by barrles need to be turned down drastically. A singles full fluid wagon can easily handle a big oil field, you only have to consider how long it takes to gather 75k Oil and compare it with ore transportatio...