This sounds to me like removing the work aspects and keeping the fun. It seems to be very common attitude with players and secret of success of this kind of games. However, I would like to have gamemode in which I should plan and build active control systems to adapt all kind of variations in condi...

But I strongly disagree on the opinions that blueprinting " breaks the spirit of the game ". Factorio is a game about engineering, and "blueprinting" (using the existing solution to a specific subproblem to solve a bigger problem) is a common practice in real life, such as in pr...

Barrels are outdated and I tried to find examples in real file where we use barrels. Most of them are small scale examples so they won't fit this game. There are couple of uses. Barrels are very practical in machine workshops to produce blue belts and electric motors. They are also good in sulfuric...

What kind of challenge do you think to get with these changes? Then you should build several types of turrets everywhere. There would not be any strategic decisions anymore. Now player can use nature as defense and save significant amount of game resources and work by wise choice. I like such challe...

BTW, the reason that “no pollution” was suggested was because it does consume some of your UPS. So do biters, especially when your fixed Artillery has cleared everything in range, but suddenly gets a range increase (due to tech). It was not about the challenge (or lack thereof) at all. Exactly. Meg...

Can't say I'd enjoy it. Early game when steam is your only source of power it'd result in more micro. Busywork essentially. If I had a circuit network or something to have control over it maybe I'd like it, but I can't see the appeal. Later on it doesn't matter nearly as much. When I got nuclear po...

I'm not unfriendly to the devs. I would even understand if they decided that pathfinding is good enough. Color me instead surprised. We are talking of a team of devs who put thousands upon thousands of hours into a finely tuned game, but somehow the pathfinding is not making justice to it, and is n...

Unfortunately for the biters, they are not meant to be a serious RTS style challenge for the player. Instead, they are meant to just be some pressure, a resource sink into which the player puts defensive then offensive efforts. I would not expect them to improve the biter AI. The game is very highl...

I never decide. I just lose my interest slowly, play more rarely, do other hobbies, maybe begin a new game (Factorio or something else) etc.

I would like to see variations of conditions. There could be seasonal and weather effects which would effect to all things. Assemblers would slow down at very high or very low temperatures. Belts would slow down at very low temperatures or winter could stop them completely. Drones would work at wint...

Yeap. But it's OK, I think, in my way of looking at things. This is pure flattery. They are at least decent enough to steal and not just borrow. Would be nice if they coughed up some royalties tho. Got to underwrite factorio expansion kit somehow! As for Dyson Sphere Program, I was initially extrem...

The thing about oil is that it seems very out of place for this game as if it was designed with a very different mindset for an entirely different game. What do you mean? Liquids and oil refining with 3 products have been very long time part of the game. in other system in this game do we have to j...

This may not be a question. But it's been an amazing ride all the way until i reach the Oil and advanced oils section of the game play and i lost all my apatite to play. 40 hours and i love each one of them but i can't understand how to make oil run with no problem without using these circuits. Why...

PFR is not overpoered, it is ridiculously underpowered for endgame purposes, especially with marathon. It's intentionally underpowered, I think. Otherwise power armor will overshadow everything else. It seems to be balanced for combat purposes but clearly underpowered for endgame building. I usuall...

I bought it at Friday and used a weekend. I have researched about half of "yellow" research topics (science tier 3/6) and plan to begin the purple science (tier 4/6) soon. I have interplanetary logistics running and Dyson swarm at beginning phase but have not yet research other solar syste...

What I find crazy is how OP landmines are. They make all of the other military entities redundant in comparison. Once you get landmines, biters become a sideshow to the game. Does mines have any significant effect to behemoth biters? The other thing that is utterly unbalanced, is artillery on islan...

I did not notice than anyone has mentioned mods. Many mods add waste or side products to recipes. You do not want that passive provider is ever filled.

Factorio is extremely well optimized. It can handle tens of thousands of active entities with . I think there is not much to do. There will be limit somewhere in any case and it is easy to break it with building bots. If you got 8 times more performance by threading it would increase time before you...

Not sure why wube wanted to remove biters from the endgame, if that was their intention. In my opinion this is very good change for all building games. At beginning game is more surviving and builds are fast and simple. Then focus moves slowly from defense to active conquering of area with increasi...

I suggest speed of construcion. The best way is to reduce energy consumption of construction bots or increase output of portable fusion reactors. That would give huge boost to personal and spidertron's building capacity but not disturb balance of bot bases because logistic bots could be as they are....