Try nukes

You should be able to load your existing game into 0.15, beware the science changes (and do a backup first ;-) ) If you don't like what you see, you can reset to 0.14 again and load your backup. Personally I recommend the atom bomb, but the stack of 20 I took out on my last jaunt was too small, next...

You can paint iron to prevent it rusting. In factorio you could achieve this by adding a few petrochemicals to the refinery/oil chain and then using the paint in a recipe for painted iron plate and pipe.

Blue science is supposed to be a jump, I think it it makes it more fun...

Sweet heavens, how the heck are you guys getting numbers like this?! On my world, Uranium deposits NEVER reach anything above 45k. That's literally the largest deposit I've ever had. Resources all reduced to lowest frequency (-2), size and richness all upped by +1 to balance out. The 700K was a bit...

On my map there are Uranium deposits that are much bigger than the ones nearer my base (one is 9M, vs 700K).

Its Iron and Copper that are playing silly

I just finished my game, all resources were -2+1+1, recipes expensive x1 and I had very little starting oil. But once I got an outpost onto a moderately sized nearby oil patch it never ran out once I had beaconed it a bit (about 1 beacon per well). I did get more oil later on too. So, yes, oil does ...

I agree with the OP that catalysts would be an interesting addition to the game and make for some more realistic recipes. But the Kovarex process is perfect just as it is as far as I am concerned and I would not want to see it changed. The devs should leave the Kovarex process alone, implement (degr...

It would be great to have a slot in roboports or another chest to be able to just release robots into the wild, and a way to call 1 logistics and 1 construction (or a configurable amount) to always land at a roboport and that these robots would still be counted as being active robots in the network...

I agree with the OP, the game directs you to convert heavy to light oil, with no reverse gear. The fact that conventionally you might not need a reverse gear misses the point, this is a sandbox game and it is both counterintuitive and unrealistic to not have a way of converting light oil/petroleum i...

Why does not wanting to upgrade belt make it okay to not be able to go underneath 2 bus lanes? As for still being able to pop up after 4 belts, that completely defeats the purpose of having longer lengths. Worse yet now you are even paying more for it than you were before. You seem to be assuming t...

I like added length for underground belts, but I don't like the lengths that have been selected as it doesn't fit well with common uses. Going from 4(yellow) to 8(blue) for example doesn't allow you to go under an extra 4 wide bus lane as they are spaced 2 apart and would thus require a length of 1...

So many good and positive comments! I really miss a "like" button right now :D Yes! Please polish and finish 1.0! It will be hard, because the last 5% are hardest to achieve. Also you will feel that too little is gained by each step as no new funky parts are added. Still, continue on that...

Boom baby - looking forward to the arty trains :) Didn't like the science pack changes, but ho hum... As for blueprint based play - how about a machine that can activate a blueprint independently of the player, and maybe a photocopier to copy blueprints ? Yeah I know there's a mod, but I would prefe...

I do not think that there should be any special fancy stuff here. Just set that all moving train units kill all enemies which hit to them without losing speed. Maybe large and behemoth enemies should produce small and somewhat significant damage, respectively. It would be easy to program and give m...

I'm not sure I'm a fan of science pack requirement changes. Could these changes make the game a bit...easy? I agree, I thought the casuals had a separate easy recipe list they could play with, why change this across the whole game ? The Steel requirement was making it difficult, but I was looking f...

I do not think that there should be any special fancy stuff here. Just set that all moving train units kill all enemies which hit to them without losing speed. Maybe large and behemoth enemies should produce small and somewhat significant damage, respectively. It would be easy to program and give m...

Very interesting - moar ! ...

.. but I do understand your reasons for delaying until the game settles down a bit

So how much do biters weigh that they can stop trains and where is all the kinetic energy going? Well Behemoth means big, so it is plausible they could be heavy enough to stop a slow train, and a pack of them could certainly stop one if the train can't fight back. Personally I think guns won't be p...

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