like before 0.15 everyone was doing solar spam etc... =P you've seen everyone base ? There are a lot of people that don't use solar. And the new nuclear can't be used efficiently only by itself. Yes it can, but it takes some circuit tinkering to properly minmax it. I've got 480MW installed nuclear,...

this is a pretty old thread, took me a minute to catch on why it was talking about 0.15

All along the trains have an instance ID that is accessible through the modding API. Would be simple enough to expose that ID to the circuit network.

This is already possible using the headless server on basically any VPS or dedicated server provider. Set the game up with a limited list of players so that only you and people you trust are able to play on it, and go to it. I'm sure by now gameserver providers have gotten started offering Factorio ...

Looks like they used an old Version. (0.12ish) Maybe there's a version thats open source? I mean how else did they get the code? There was no open source version. Looks like either stolen or knockoff assets. The basic gameplay is possible to recreate easily enough, a lot of the behaviors are in the...

Oh that sounds fun.

You could just set a hard limit using a circuit connection on the inserter putting materials into the assembler. Then it will always stop after making the intended number.

That's not really a solution. Unless I misunderstand what you're doing, you've got a requester chest asking for 1 fuel cell, and you're hoping that it doesn't get reloaded before the steam gets above the desired threshold. There's nothing really stopping the reactor from filling up with fuel cells ...

How to use up the "bad green rock" besides creating rocket fuel? - can it be in another useful way be recycled? Send it back to the input of the Kovarex process. That's the neat thing about this process- the output and input are the same stuff, all it does is change the ratio between them...

Can't really catalyze a nuclear reaction. Kovarex process gives the impression that it is actually a fuel breeding scheme, irradiating the U238 using the U235 in order to trigger a neutron capture and decay chain that transmutes it. Also my solution for it is very compact and effective. The output c...

with the change from energy_source to burner on locomotives, I don't think it would be possible to have an electric train anymore. speaking from a modding perspective here. you can however have a diesel locomotive... that burns barrels of fuel! you just need to add a fuel value and category to the ...

on the second point then the steam turbines and steam engines in my honest opinion have circuit connections that could report back on how much of their potential energy is getting pushed out or/and which prioity it is on As far as i know theres no way to find energy consumpsion+production from the ...

Considering that the turbines make a chuffing sound like steam engines, I'm pretty sure they came to be by copypasting the steam engine code and changing a few numbers, then paperclipping it onto new graphics. Consider the priority conflict an incentive to learn how to use circuits, that way you con...

Usually I do combat in the early and midgame using the tank with a ton of bots and repair packs following it around to keep it going. Right after such a battle, I had a couple of bots take off and head to this spot. They have apparently become stuck here, twitching in place until their power is empt...

May have experienced the same bug when driving the tank. Had left the game paused for a couple hours while I took a nap, then got going again and went towards a biter nest. There were some stray biters on the way, so I figured I would just use the machine gun to clear them out. I got a few of them d...

After a couple of days experimenting, I've come up with this: http://i.imgur.com/tlzhMwZ.jpg The whole thing doesn't fit in a single screenshot, its too tall. But it operates on a 4:48:84 ratio and is theoretically capable of 480MW. In practice my factory is too small for such power, so I have it ri...

Come on, WTF, it costs 30 U-235 and cannot kill a bug on single hit.. the explosion is like a fart. It's just so wrong. Nothing should be left standing when hit by a nuke, the AOE should be at least 1 chunk, and nothing will ever grow again. The inspiration for the nuke was this: https://en.wikiped...

I think it's already a challenge. Sure it's not Mt Everest but you have to consider the barrier to entry, you don't want these mega-complex systems that need the circuit network just to operate, and if you say "sure, your way will work but if you have a degree in logic it will output 4x as muc...

Trains already go an incredible distance on the fuel slots they have- if your trains are running out, try switching them to solid fuel or rocket fuel. It will make them go faster as well as operating longer. These two fuel options also give a boost to acceleration and maximum speed. It is more or le...

I think combinators continue to output the last signal they were outputting when power is low; it's just they don't update any more? Not sure though.. This is the case. A combinator that is in brownout or blackout conditions will continue to output the signal that it had previously been producing w...

The Hull railway electrification was cancelled because apparently diesel trains are fine. Although a locomotive can't use any power source other than burner (the power_source tag was actually replaced with a new tag, "burner" in 0.15), what you can do is create a new type of fuel item, an...

Detail view?

Right now you can only zoom in further than the abstracted map view in areas that the player has line of sight on or are illuminated by a radar.

It would be nice if launching the satellite made the entire explored region of the map visible- effectively disable fog of war at that point.