FYI, you really should read that link smarty posted, it's pretty obvious they've considered everything you've said: "Multithreading the update itself, which is the real bottleneck in big factories is the most needed step currently, but it is also the most complicated. Factorio needs to be fully...

Eh, assembler 2 is really easy to have finished by the time you need that one inserter assembler for green science.

Incidentally, if you think this is really a problem, it can be solved by just bumping assembler 1 to 3 ingredients.

Well, I think the reason mainstream games don't care much or at all about parallel processing is because I can't see it mattering much in games. People can spend days/weeks working on a ~2x speedup throughout their game with multithreaded solutions that can be both buggy and difficult to debug, or t...

Right, but stones can be used to cover the world with walls, but nobody does. For the same reason that you don't build ridiculous amounts of pumps and commit mass deforestation with the intent to use it for fuel. Like even with iron and copper, one of those two is going to be a limiting factor (iron...

I was just assuming that a 10 blue belt lane would cover pretty much any load necessary, if you manage to get more ore than that to your central area it'd start being more efficient to ship end products, and it's easier to switch product flow with belts. I suppose if you're actually going for exactl...

Well, just because something is there doesn't mean it needs to be used. There's tens of thousands of trees, but you aren't using all the wood, there's thousands of tiles of water surface, but you aren't building thousands of pumps. There's billions of tons of dirt and you aren't using any of it :D S...

I meant time as in train management as you increase stations, not rail or station placement. As stations dry up or new ones are made, you need to account for this with every train for pickup stations in very large networks. Addmittedly, I haven't played with the new train logic system yet, but unles...

Well, unless you're playing with very low resources, material cost shouldn't even really be a factor, the price of transport compared to what you're hauling is miniscule. Time is much more important, and belts clobber trains since train time management grows over time based on stations and trains. L...

Well I just used you've got a package / eco unfriendly as a crude estimate. About half sounds right. As for progressive armor, that would be really nice, although the oly one that needs it now is power armor -> power armor mk2, and they could just get rid of that issue by making the mk1 cheaper.

The lowly modular armor, so interesting, but so worthless. Newbies can't get the required materials to make use of it, and more experienced players just skip it for cheap tanks followed by power armor. Looking at the achievements, only about half the players who seriously get into the game really ma...

So transporting ore base-wide distances probably shouldn't be done with bots. Moreso when you already in fact have a dried up conveyor system 5 feet away ready to use.


But it looks really cool.

-High reviews
-Builder game
-cheap

Didn't even read the description. Not regretted

I think if you're worrying about this question you aren't building fast enough. You should overproduce base materials to compression point to give you extra slack to build more assemblers which leads to these materials not being compressed, then you go back to step one. Pretty simple.

Heh, well I think you've pretty much derailed your own thread. Now the problem is API, steam achievements, etc. As for opening up the game, usually heavily opening up the game's code for modding only happens a few months after release (so maybe like 2 years from now?) which is totally a game creator...

IIRC, higher frequency isn't going to change the total ores and enemies, size defintely does, though. It's just how spread out they are (high = averaged out, low = clumped), and richness is the alient artifact rate for enemies, right. As for whether to go very low or low, I'd say if you want a chall...

Killing nests absolutely needs to raise evolution for the simple fact that if you stuff efficiency mods and focus on offense, you could then conceivably simply conquer several hundred chunks with ease and then build defenses later. You could make a case for the destroy factor being lowered, though. ...

Oil can seriously become a pain on lower resource levels in the beginning of the game. Eventually of course, it becomes infinite, but only in the theoretical sense. But other than that "low" is really just normal for an experienced player. You can even go down to very low across the board ...

Nah it's still speed3 all around for pumpjacks, since said above situation doesn't happen in a real game (if you have one oil spot, you're not going to waste 14 modules on one oil spot, and if you have more you can't fit the beacons).

Seriously now, after a conquering spree I'm actually at the point of making a chest and shotgunning it to get rid of these things. We can destroy their habitat and commit mass genocide, but we can't incinerate their remains?

I never mine any resources by hand, apart from a few trees to power the first few miners and furnaces. So a toggle which turns off hand mining (apart from trees) would be useful in map generation: something like "Allow hand mining". Definitely this but not as map gen but rather as a game ...