"Let's never talk about it again"

Whatever they do with bots (unless they remove logistic bots) - there will be mods to revert the nerfs.

If playing with player.character=nil, quickbar and main inventory are swapped: player.get_inventory(defines.inventory.player_quickbar) will give you the main inventory while player.get_inventory(defines.inventory.player_main) will give you the quickbar. Since I can't see any good reason for this beh...

The reason why people use surface.always_day=true is not that they want unlimited solar energy but because they don't like to play in darkness. Please make an option to turn off night darkness without affecting the day-night cycle for solar panels, either by changing always_day or by introducing ano...

Ha, that did the job, thanks! My first guess was that the structure mag_gen_settings is referring to might not be writable, but the reference ("pointer") itself is, so you would have to make a copy of the structure, change it and change the reference to it. Maybe this is what happens behin...

There could be another tier of expensive assemblers / smelters locked behind expensive research.

Not long enough

I just tried to mess around with surface.map_gen_settings, especially autoplace_controls["enemy-base"], on the in-game console. I started a map with size="none" for enemy bases and tried to change it to size="high". When I tried to confirm the successful write via print...

-the map is very bad at showing important things: resources, trees, cliffs, transport belts. Please more uniform color for terrain, and more visible colors for iron, coal, trees, etc..., and force rendering belts rather than it depending on belt pixel position whether or not it's rendered Enhanced ...

Crazy!

By the way, they increased iron ore spawning in 16.0 - but I'm playing on a map right now where it still seems that there is way more copper than iron. Just random or might there be an issue? Or might setting ore frequencies to low and patch size to very big be the cause?

By the way, they increased iron ore spawning in 16.0 - but I'm playing on a map right now where it still seems that there is way more copper than iron. Just random or might there be an issue? Or might setting ore frequencies to low and patch size to very big be the cause?

Moved to here

I thought "well, it's only Wednesday, but let's see if there is anything new about 0.16". And suddenly 0.16

Eh, do you even read tooltips? You can easily calculate the ratios from there. For the magazines I recall that piercing round magazines need 3 seconds and 1 normal magazine per piece, so the ratio is 3:1, not 2:2.

You don't need blue belts at all for furnaces, and it is very easy to build without undergrounds. If costs for building furnace factories are "prohibitivly high" with the current recipes, your design is faulty. You do if you aim to get a fully compressed belt without using splitters / mer...

You seem to be stuck on the traveling vast distances use case. This is NOT a solution to the sudden sharp increase to cross a single tile with express underground belts. By the way, using underground belts to less than their full distance is much, much more common than using them at exactly full di...

Did you even read my calculation? They are cheaper than using express transport belts on the same tiles. I'm pretty sure you haven't examined the arguments of the other side properly. How often did you use maximum underground belt distance even in 0.14? How often did you simply use UG belt to cross...

The express underground belts are prohibitively expensive. It really depends on your use case. Did you even read my calculation? They are cheaper than using express transport belts on the same tiles. When trying to cross distances, they may out od above ground belts, but I use them in my factory as...

Also I'd like to add that adding 40 / 80 wheels to the recipes of red / blue underground belts is probably not a good idea. An assembling-machine-2 with crafting speed 0.75 would need 2*80*0.75 = 120 wheels per second to constantly craft blue underground belts. A stack inserter with +4 bonus (5 item...

Am I just stupid or are underground belts still too cheap after the changes in 0.15.7 and 0.15.8? First of all, we shouldn't say an underground belt has length 5 / 7 / 9 if it really is equivalent to 6 / 8 / 10 normal belts in length. Belt costs are: 2 belt = 3 iron = 1.5 iron / tile 1 red belt = 11...

(I can't read) For science pack 3, switching from assembling machine 1 to pumpjack is not a good idea: Pumpjacks are a lot harder to make because of 5 steel / piece you need. That means for a 0.75 pack per second factory (with assembling machines 2, crafting speed 0.75) you will need: 5 red science ...