I tend to make my trains wait at the stations when I only have one line, then make "stops" on the way when the traffic grows, before upgrading to multiple lines, usually one-way ones, multiple of them when nearing very frequented stations.


Trains do take a while to understand, there are many ...

I believe that the whole point of the "other players" is not to have a friend list, but to have a centralized place where all the trades are stored.

To me, it seems more like a try to integrate a market where prices would fluctuate, but it could also be flooded by people being able to mass produce ...

Stranded, but with the ability to make missile launchers, and to exterminate all the inhabitants, and to prepare for the landing of a ship that we can suppose is big.

Is it really stretching it to believe that we could make small space-capable ships in order to trade with that ship, and through it ...

Right now, the game doesn't have any late game resources that would be really rare (maybe also biome specific), as well as only used for optional researches/items.

Better version of existing things, like a MK4 assembling machine, a production chain using uranium to heat water more efficiently ...

Well, mining the tank, instead of destroying it, means that you keep the tank and wipe the content, unlike for chests.

If you jut want to get rid of a type of liquid (light oil before cracking is available?), just mine the container and place it back.

Sure, it means loosing a lot of potential stuff, but when you don't have the space or resources to expand your storage, it's a way to get things going again.

For the worms, I prefer the solution Ludsoe implemented in his mod, being that the worms are no longer firing homing spit, making it possible for the player to evade, but the small AoE he added makes them all the more useful against buildings, damaging many with every shot.

As for the bitters, it ...

I prefer the car option, but as an upgrade to the car, that would make it act as a roboport, maybe only for construction robots, with a "request" function and a relatively small range (20?)?

It has a lot of benefits, and you would consume the fuel to recharge the robots too, making it still costly ...

I really need to get around to compile graphviz to be able to use this tool, it could really help me figure out what I need.

With the map's resources generated like that, you might not want to "regenerate" a resource.

I think that the "clean" way would be to add an option in the menu to toggle between the current numbers (for experienced players) and a "manual crafting" number, ON by default, for the amount of resources needed to craft 1 item with only raw in the inventory (no 1.5 copper).

The layering could also potentially benefit a lot for mods, even more if it is made possible to change some layers on the fly, only for a specific instance of an entity.

I personally like the fact that repairing walls is more expansive than replacing them once broken, because both the player and the robots can place new walls in place of the 'ghost' walls.

It lets you choose if you prefer to repair or replace, knowing that repairs costs more, but replacing can be a ...

Yeah, but it's the mod section here, where we modify the game to bend it to how we want to play.

For me, at least, most of the fun in modded games is that I can make it change completely on some things I don't enjoy.
Basically, mods add a lot of variety and "unnecessary" things for people that want ...

Would it be possible, with the current engine, to change the sprites of a machine (inserter here) based on the module(s) and/or recipe?

Or if that is not possible, would it be feasible to force the inserters to show their modules when showing alternative infos? A bit like how chest contents are ...

Modular inserters for the win...

If you had speed, insert distance, insert/pickup angle, pickup angle, filter and smart "modules", you could potentially do everything with only one inserter type.

The only problem with this is that it would become harder to see which type is used, when all have the ...

Well, the main point of power of 2over power of 10 stack size is to optimize the data on the hard drive.
Power of 10 is better for the end user, because it's easier to see stacks of 100 than 128.

unlock-recipe
ghost-time-to-live
logistic-robot-speed
logistic-robot-storage
character-logistic-slots
gun-speed
ammo-damage

As far as I can tell, that should be everything

Edit by kovarex: This is actually misleading and in the next post it is described correctly.

It' actually pretty easy, in your control.lua
game.onload(function()
YOUR CODE HERE, WITH THE CHECKS?
end
)

An other way to do it is to provide a function for a console call instead of doing it at ...

I can attest having noticed this too, and I am pretty sure I saw it in 0.9.X before 0.9.4, but it's definitely not happening on every corner with such directions.

I only noticed it for coal and iron ores, but I don't have the saves anymore to show it, sorry.