Decentralizing production? WATER!!! If concrete did not require it, yeah, it would work perfectly. Place dozen factories next to the spot, have robots deliver bricks and iron, wait some time and start building. But it requires water. Which cannot be carried by bots. That means long and annoying pipe...

You know what would speed it up even more? Robots not having to fly through the entire factory but taking concrete from a storage next to the place where it is to be placed, but for that to work, player has to be able to carry it there. It would be very easy with an increased stack size, hint hint.

The bottom line is that construction robots are bad at making large paths of concrete. Hence why player has to do it by hand and that's why I am postulating to make it easier and increase the size of concrete stack to 1k.

The reason I crated this thread was because of the crafting time it takes to craft oil refineries. and other things that you need on-the-go that are not important enough to set up production for. This. There is really no need to set up factories to craft 2 refineries or something else that you need...

@Kane
Thanks for the offer but I prefer to play without gameplay changing mods. That's why I am trying to convince people in charge to change the size of the stack.

Sigh... I wanted to play the game without using exploits. So no 'pole of victory'. If I destroy a base that's because I plan on building something there, not because I plan to place a single electric pole so the base does not respawn. Now I know that's nearly impossible. I HAVE to kill all bases wi...

Sigh... I wanted to play the game without using exploits. So no 'pole of victory'. If I destroy a base that's because I plan on building something there, not because I plan to place a single electric pole so the base does not respawn. Now I know that's nearly impossible. I HAVE to kill all bases wit...

If bots are allowed to place the tiles this should be trivial, but what is actually missing is the self-placing/expanding blueprints. Travel time. Bots are slower than player with PAMKII and can carry only ONE item. I tried them, then I quit. With 200 bots I would still make it faster by carrying 1...

For some small patches of concrete or small paths, 100 items in a stack is fine. For placing concrete in a base like this? yeah.jpg Not so much. Running back and forth between production facility is not fun. Especially for distant outposts that I also like to fill with concrete. I would really prefe...

Yeah... gun turrets... if I wanted to switch, I would need roughly 500-600 of those (assuming one row is enough). With attacks pretty much every couple seconds, my entire factory would have to be dedicated to nothing more than piercing rounds.

But where are your walls? Also fast and express belts can help keeping biters away. I do not loose turrets on meele range bitters. Not after the three row upgrade. I loose them on ranged ones. Last time I checked, walls did not stop those. Belts... yeah. tried that. Replace 'can' with 'might' and y...

I start to think that I will need the new turrets. I just decided to scrap another game due to not having enough oil to build enough turrets to defend my base. You would think that three rows of fully upgraded laser turrets would be enough to defend the base without loosing any turrets in the proce...

I start to think that I will need the new turrets. I just decided to scrap another game due to not having enough oil to build enough turrets to defend my base. You would think that three rows of fully upgraded laser turrets would be enough to defend the base without loosing any turrets in the proces...

You are assuming that the planet exists in our reality. For all we know, the Player's race developed some sort of way to jump between dimensions. Such technology would explain how player can store hundreds of various items in the inventory, the inventory is a pocket dimension with even more differen...

Did you read what I said? Fusion isn't more advanced than fission. That's like saying an apple is more advanced than an orange. Fusion just isn't suited for an earth-like environment, so fission has been prioritized when it comes to research. The two technologies have completely different pros and ...

Given that there were natural fission reactors on Earth and an efficient fusion reactor requires degree of sophistication we still did not achieve I fail to see how they could be considered the same tech level. There are also natural fusion reactors - stars. It is also worth noting that fusion powe...

Given that there were natural fission reactors on Earth and an efficient fusion reactor requires degree of sophistication we still did not achieve I fail to see how they could be considered the same tech level. As for solar panels in space... their biggest issue is... space. If platforms to build at...

One isn't really better than the other. They're different kind of nuclear reactions. Fusion generates more power, but also costs more power. You are talking about real life. Factorio isn't real life. You can put up to 4 small fusion reactors into the armor and run around in it. Sure, they provide l...

SomeDuder wrote: (Tank is already OP as it is)

Really? It's slow, has terrible DPS and does not heal itself... Hardly OP.

I would really like to see a 'bunker' style turret for the late game defense. It does not matter what it it's armed with, it just needs tons of HP to survive the end game waves long enough for laser turrets to clear them out. Maybe even an option for slow self repair in form of putting repair packs ...