This gets back to the age-old problem with Factorio: If X requires maintenance, why don't belts and everything else with moving parts also need maintenance? Following that, what gameplay mechanic can the player reasonably use to service that many entities?
Simple answer: Cause that is not ...

Suggestion #1: put two different circuit or logistic conditions into the power switch: one to turn ON and one to turn OFF.
This ^^ is a best solution to prevent switch from jiggling around exact condition.

It's worth pointing out that the latch solution doesn't accomplish the same thing. It ...

I don't see much problem in the steep jump.
For me I don't really see the problem so much with the steep jump, it is the vast cliff on the other side that worries me :lol:


I'll be a little intentionally obtuse: What cliff? After building blue science automation, there's tons of stuff to do ...

I read through the thread, and call me one of the skeptics. I don't see much problem in the steep jump. I guess no one has described their specific ideas of what "easier" blue and "harder" purple means. Could you post some recipe.lua examples of what you're thinking. It's important to understand ...

This gets back to the age-old problem with Factorio: If X requires maintenance, why don't belts and everything else with moving parts also need maintenance? Following that, what gameplay mechanic can the player reasonably use to service that many entities?

There's also a more practical concern. I ...

I think this is a separate issue. First, I'm running 0.13.4 , which has this fix. Second, the train doesn't get stuck. It keeps moving and damages the gate. Third, in the pics in the linked thread, the gate is up (red lights on gate) when the train collided. In my case, the gate is almost down and ...

I've never seen this issue before, so it appears to be new in 0.13.

In some of my outposts, the trains have to make a sharp turn before approaching a gate. The logic for lowering a gate doesn't work in this situation, and the train crashes into the gate. This PAX station (where the train is ...

In 0.13, we got the ability to connect a train station to the circuit network.

A connected station has this menu:

https://imgur.com/i3BmQPH.png

There is only one mode of operation, which is useful for wait conditions. My idea is to add two additional modes, possibly with the ability to enable ...

Apologies for sending you on a wild goose chase. I should've tried harder to reproduce before reporting. On a second try, no errors.

Confirmed not a bug.

I was crafting some items with a full inventory. As usual, this causes the crafted items to be dropped, which is fine. When I noticed this, I put down a chest and freed up some inventory space.

The problem is that subsequently crafted items still trigger an inventory full message, and the item is ...

Part of it is that people are naturally drawn towards being efficient, what one might call "laziness" is really just letting us focus our limited time and attention on more important issues. The downside of that, if you have a boring, powerful system in a game then another, more interesting but ...

I think I like this response the best out of all of what I've read. Solar is awesome in it's own right and is a great step after coal and fits well. If we keep that thought, then another way to balance solar is to devalue it by increasing demand beyond it

Why does solar need "balancing?" This isn ...

I read through this entire thread, and there's a lot of good discussion. I'm also a relatively new player (~90 hours and two rocket-launching saves).

I don't think there needs to be any changes to solar whatsoever. I'll try to lay-out three reasons.

1) Many parts of Factorio are "plop and forget ...

It's not as simple as just forking and it solving all problems. Now you need an IPC mechanism to communicate between the two processes, so the save process can report what happened. That could be implemented simply with waitpid() in the parent, but then you need a separate thread for waiting ...

Here's my config in Linux after getting the keys fixed.

[controls]
editor-show-hard-difficulty=F11
editor-show-normal-difficulty=F10
editor-show-easy-difficulty=F9
editor-show-all-difficulties=F8
editor-edit-entity-details=t
editor-remove-entity=x
editor-tool-secondary-action=mouse-button-2
editor ...

Here's a screen shot of a Linux -> Windows transition:

https://imgur.com/i5LmqbL.png

One thing I noticed was "show info." On Linux, it seems that the ALT keys show up separately. I use the left alt key in both operating systems. On Linux, Factorio shows the keybinding as ALT_L, but in Widows, it ...

I game on both Windows and Linux, sharing my current save via Steam syncing. I've noticed that when I switch from one to the other (doesn't matter which) a few of the keybindings break. The most important being enter/leave vehicle. It always gets set to a red unknown value.

Screenshot of the most ...