Posts should be to the blog with a link to the forum at the end of each one, eg, "Discuss on the forum". On the forum itself there should be a section that deals with the blogs only and the only new posts are those created by Factorio staff with the post being the same content as the blog post. This ...

This is only a minor issue but I'd guess technically a bug. Advanced Material Processing 2 gives output of electrical furnaces, prerequisite of these is advanced electronics. However you can research AMP2 without having researched advanced electronics. Just needs to be tweaked slightly in the ...

Yes workarounds exist for many problems I agree. However the solutions are all stopgap methods and are ugly at best in my opinion. I would much prefer a practical simple solution such as already suggested.

The suggestion is not mentioned in detail here, so I can only assume you want powerpole ...

Yes workarounds exist for many problems I agree. However the solutions are all stopgap methods and are ugly at best in my opinion. I would much prefer a practical simple solution such as already suggested.

Hijacking the thread a little, my apologies. Levers that could be used to turn on/off large sections of the factory by limiting power flow would be pretty awesome.

I would like to suggest having the save list sort-able by either most recent or by file name. Additionally when saving a previously loaded game, the file name box should be filled with the game name that was loaded.

I believe better solar options in addition to other alternative sources of energy such as oil/gas/wind have been discussed by the developers but are yet to be implemented. I haven't heard that anything has changed in this regard so it should make it in at some point.

Impatience will never be cured. Slightly contained maybe by keeping the roadmap a little more up to date, but never cured. I use a lot of alpha software currently so I'm not bothered by what condition it arrives in while it's still wearing the alpha tags but I'm also into a lot of games and have my ...

I think an artillery turret would cool. Needs special ammo. Loading, aimin and firing takes 30 secs. Targets every building within a radar range and within -hm - 50-100 tiles. In the beginning it has a very bad aiming (20% hits) and it can be researched up to 80%; as the range.
The creepers try to ...

Surely 96 is a simply way to state it than ^6^5? Or are you trying to convey something else?

I would prefer it if we could choose the amount to fill to, and not just on turrets but all placements that can hold an inventory.

Hmm, I like the rocket/supply idea, but IMO it is the wrong approach.

Obviously the game needs some stuff to expand the mid/endgame, but adding a storyline into the freeplay means that it is not a "freeplay" anymore.
(Assuming that you HAVE TO supply them)

I would prefer to see these things in ...

ssilk wrote:What I want to say with that is: It's just a game, but ... I would like to decide if I want to fight or having peace, because I would like not to kill. Sometimes.

Agreed. I'd love more than one way to play the game.

Personally I just didn't bother with the electric furnace due to the slower speed. With this change it will at least be on my radar when I'm making decisions about factory layouts.

Maybe have a "pollution" level. Everything that you build adds an amount to this level. Factories and mines constantly produce pollution while they are active. You can then have it so that when you reach certain levels of pollution that bigger waves of attacks are caused.

Yeah I'm not arguing against changing the text, I'm just pointing out that sometimes realism for the sake of realism can hurt a game. In this case it obviously doesn't apply, just always something to consider when making changes.

I think we need to be careful on the realism. Taking Minecraft as an example. With the power mods set up the majority of people I have played with stop before creating reactors simply due to it being such a pita to manage safely without destroying your world. I'd rather see something unrealistic but ...

Inserting a speed module level 1 into an electric furnace is causing a crash.

Awesome stuff all. I'm really liking the new map features, brings a huge improvement to the overall gameplay experience. The balance for some things still seems a bit off though such as solar power. That should be split into two sections with the first being lower efficiency but only requiring red ...

As Ssilk suggested it's probably best to wait until the new map generator comes out (which should be within a week or two I think) and then try again.