I think a cool addition to the game is to be able to place combat robots into either the Roboport or some type of robot defense structure where they will be deployed when an enemy comes into range. It would be very cool to be able to setup patrols or other RTS type stuff with combat robots. Also, I...

Infinite research looks great! I tend to leave my science factory operational in case I add a mod or something that needs research, but the ability to keep it busy and for tangible returns would be very welcome. I'm curious, though. Does only the cost increase, or can the associated bonuses also dec...

I played a game recently with resources as spread out as it gets and almost everything was within pretty close reach... Was still better to use trains but they didn't have to go far until the first outposts ran out of ore. "Almost" everything Weirdly, the closest oil field spawned pretty ...

A late Friday release, eh? Feeling ballsy today, are we? Thanks for your continued hard work!

I'll start with the very beginning. I too made a new playthrough (or continued a previous one anyway)... 1) ...and I'm not really happy with rail planner tool (or current rail creation process). I do appreciate the notion, but still, I'd rather be able to craft and place curved rails myself too, es...

This artillery train sounds interesting! I can't wait to hear more! Ground based artillery could be an interesting way to go. Long range bombardment from static artillery, maybe with a range of 5 or so chunks, that takes a decent amount time to reload and fire making it primarily an offensive weapon...

One suggestion I might make in regards to content would be some way to automate biter base killing. The mod Robot Army ( https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=23543 ) is a good example but I think the idea would really benefit from an official implementation because of the complexity of thing...

Isnt the best solution to get the aliens not to attack? How about building a wall so far away from your base that pollution has tapered of? The best may vary. If you have really big base, you need tens of square kilometers area and tens of kilometers walls. It take huge amount of time to build such...

edit: in fact, from the save-game you sent me, just remove the rally point right next to the player and on old 0.2.3 (stable release) the squads immediately fix themselves. I can't know exactly what combination of data/events caused the squads to become stuck originally but it looks to me like the ...

kyranzor wrote:Hey Mr Grim, sorry about the delay, i've been super busy. I'll check out your save game some time in the next few days!

No worries! Thank you!

Can you try to observe one of your squads and using the debug overlay with "unit group info" on and pathfinder shown as well, a screenshot of the squad with all of this turned on might help me work out what's going wrong with them. Thanks for choosing Robot Army, I look forward to helping...

I'm also having trouble with squads mostly just standing about. I think it's because they might be selecting targets they can't get to. Either they're in a part of the map that's walled off or they're busy in a sort of re-grouping loop. I decided to try for flying units to see if their flying abilit...

Looks like you probably have around 2x as much wall surface area as I do. I also alternate between flame and gun so that probably trades some ammo use for oil instead. Flame turrets are pretty. :D I also just let them encroach and pollute the hell out of them. They get pretty aggressive, but I've ne...

I noticed while trying to optimize my largest station that chain signals were not changing to the colors I would expect when I placed a regular signal. I'm attaching a screenshot. The new signal is circled in black, and chain signals are circled in the color I would expect them to be. odd-chain-sign...

FactorioBot wrote:Technology progress is preverved [sic] when the research is changed before it is completed.

Nice! That's always irked me a little bit.

I have not had any breakthroughs even the line consumed up to 5-7 k bullets per hour. ... I used 16 k bullets per one hour ... By bullets per hour I'm assuming you mean magazines per hour and not actual bullets fired? I just measured my magazine usage last night for the first time after I completed...

Here's clarification as to why I started the topic: I've been playing Factorio since 0.9.8 and really enjoy the game (~600 hours logged) but try to avoid using mods that aren't helper mods. My past games have been 50 to 100 hours long, with a sprawled out solar panel powered base that uses trains f...

I hope you understand. Kinda.. I think. Thank you for taking the time to help me to! I'm currently well into the obesity stage and feel like I'm just now finally getting started on my current base. :D I have a desire to build a 1 RPM base. The resource demands for such a base are.. staggering. I ju...

Yeah Thats what Ive been doing. When I see all tanks full i just make something Even if I dont need it Just to keep the flow moving But it doesnt seem to help for long or not at all or very slow production after that If all of your tanks are full (assuming heavy, light, and gas are all full) then I...

I like it. For a single purpose built base it does exactly what it needs to do. I'm curious, though, why you kept playing if you found the game to be "more like a work than a leasure [sic]". That sucks. :( I've noticed after reading these forums for a while that there are two distinct grou...