V453000 wrote: ...huge-powerful-expensive-powerhogging-hightech-aoe weapon...

Precisely what I meant it to be (a resource sink, that is).

Offtopic: I've been watching speedruns of recently released DOOM for over a week now, and BFG there is really good - shreds mancubi simply with beams from main projectile passing by, and those take a s***ton of rockets to pacify. So I thought that a weapon launching an explosive plasmoid which radi...

Circuit network additions look promising, can't wait to simplify my engineering train loading station. Flamethrower seems somewhat capable of dealing with big biters but will it be effective against behemoths? This and the game needs resource sinks, so I'd like to see some kind of really expensive a...

I have one question though, now that there is no smart chest anymore, how do we make logistic chests? Are smart chests replaced with steel ones in those recipes? My guess is that it won't be possible anymore to make logistic chests. Kappa. Contrary! As far as I understand; all chests will be connec...

First of all, congrats on getting those two awards, they are well deserved. Factorio, despite being an alpha, already accomplished more than many games do after release. Keep up the good work. On this FFF - with belts detection we can now tell if there is enough ore for smelters, or enough plates in...

OK, I might be a little late, but still. As I understand, the rapid inserter becomes an Inserter To Rule Them All, if all old inserters lose stack bonus. And if it’s done, yet another inserter (the fast one now) will become forgotten – it will follow the footsteps of burner and yellow inserters (yel...

I took the liberty of continuing research conducted by sillyfly (here https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=8145#p64914 ) to figure out a way that a train's max speed is determined with. I've varied same parameters for both cargo wagon and locomotive (such as air_resistance and fricti...