I agree that it's counterintuitive, but I think themoon's renaming is even more confusing (though that might just be me). I propose, instead, "Demand Satisfaction" and "Production load", which I think clear things up nicely.

XKnight wrote:Although I've promised to not play Factorio till 0.13, I could not pass by this thread...

Eheheh >: ]

I mean, uh, neat! Can I ask what compression you used for the game state?

Finally done messing around with the topic post, I added an explanation of the switch.

DaveMcW wrote:I love that you can manually set it up without using the console.

Me too, although it's kind of a pain to open and close all those chests to add alien artifact into them : P

I spotted this mod and wondered how it one handled stuff being in the way. Long story short, found a cool exploit that is completely impractical on multiple levels: Have a a stupid amount of stone Build a stupid amount of walls Chart out a couple-meter-wide path from your mining outpost to your base...

I was looking at the suspension on the car for Reasons, and it's really interesting, but I just can't figure out which bits are part of frame, on hinges, etc. I even found higher-res renders posted in Friday Facts 63 and 64 , but the super-high-res one is at the wrong angle and the turnaround is sti...

Scrap Mechanic is a physics-based game that's like...if you started at Factorio, and walked straight to Minecraft, then kept walking in the same direction for about the same amount of time, you'd end up at Scrap Mechanic. It's 3-d-ier, physicsier, laggier, less logisticky, and WAY more contraptionis...

I recently got into Factorio for the second time. Being a fan of crazy logic stuff, after my first playthrough I tried to do what turned out to be a rather overambitious crazy logic project, and burnt myself out on the game--right before combinators were released. Ah, irony. Anyway having again gott...