No reason that you can't have a separate power grid unconnected to your main one. Even when you've got a smelting shop at your mining point, it takes almost no space to build a separate power grid. It does mean keeping solar panels out at mining sites, but since they don't attract creeps separately,...

make some small changes to the entity files. Set steam engines as tertiary priority, and accums as secondary, leaving solar as primary. If needed, I could even upload the files with changes if desired, but the changes are too minor to do beforehand at the moment. Perhaps I should make a mod of this ...

I messed up when I said campaign, and when I said maps/scenario, I was referring to custom maps - as in maps made in the map editor - not save games. I have loaded MANY save games so far... Way to miss the big button labeled Load Game... Maps made in the map editor are ALSO in the scenario menu. Th...

All maps/scenarios are accessed through the campaigns menu, and as you can see, this isn't posted in the mods section. ... Way to miss the big button labeled scenario... For that matter, you've apparently never even loaded a map, so would you kindly see your way out? and take that request for modsh...

On Topic: Very nice work here! :D Finished the story mission, no real complaints. Should probably make the walls unmineable, perhaps a larger fuel supply for the engine? Maybe just one or the other. Grammar errors abound, but still understandable. Same goes for the challenge. With the Challenge, was...

Don't understand, can you show, what you mean? He's talking about a forced circulation pump. One that would be inline with the intended flow and one-way. With water's inertia, the below setup would only flow clockwise after a very short startup time. /-E->-E-\ | | | | \-E-E-E-+-B-P E Engine B Boile...

Mode C.

Great write-up ssilk! Many good points and ideas, with good pictures to go with them (though the larger pics are difficult to view in the embedded scrolling view, like your Clipboard06/in-line storage pic) Having some hard numbers for capacity/speed definitely help, and with Holy's correction, furth...

FrozenOne wrote:>What should be built to solve the current energy problems?

A radar bulldozer.

Yup, lol.

I admit it was strongly worded, but you tend to railroad the ideas of others.
I'm glad you understood the point I was making, and hope that we can find common ground work together on.

Alright, I've seen this coming for a awhile, so I'm just going to address this now, and generally steer clear of you until I see you understand the issue. Your Idea of what Factorio is supposed to be, is Your Opinion , not fact, not even a Dev's opinion. Your ideas are no more valid than any other s...

To clarify, the edges are cropped, but only a few pixels worth, maybe 10 total.

- different "difficulties", which means, that for beginners a reserve is available, but for experienced this is not.

What did you mean by reserve, if not resources?

Different difficulties already exist.
Resource fields can be larger or smaller on different difficulties, not much different from making them "deeper"

Something as simple as adding Resource Amount to the tag/properties window in the editor would be a big step.

Something like a single unlimited coal tile to start a base around. it would provide a reliable but very slow trickle. Too many games have I run out of coal/iron/copper long before I was at a point I could effectively expand, due to quirks in the mapgen that caused it to make micro fields near the s...

It should be easy to make generic resource field of wanted size, richness and also be able to control the distribution of richness. Currently it is insane pain to make a large and rich field with all new tiles being not worth much and each having to be manually adjusted. Also would be nice to be ab...

One way to avert the problem (other than never wearing the battery down to the point of hibernation while in-game *eyeroll* :p) would be to never use the most recent save after a hibernation event.

Full post Edit: I'm a dumbass. Both the Maze and Snake mod folders came up with "unable to read" errors on opening, either together, or individually. I had gotten so used to putting new content in the "mods" folder, that I put these clearly labeled scenarios into the mods folder....

Dr.Eddy wrote:This seems too complicated without much gain. I'd rather if developers aimed at content (and stuff) rather than eye-candy.

+1