I'm between games, so these are only mockups. No modules. http://i.imgur.com/0KaBBpi.png http://i.imgur.com/BM0Ozuz.png 2nd red inserter removing is a must to keep up with Mk2 AMs. If you're using speed modules, then this wouldn't keep up. But if you're using speed modules on general circuit produc...

I am haivng trouble visualizing what you are describing, but i agree that iron plate isnt the botteneck in in the OPs second pic, the bottleneck would be the long-handed inserters being too slow, correct? So what is the "best" electronic circuit design that is easily expandable and effici...

Hmm... Assuming you wanted to show the buildup of a factory in your trailer as opposed to the maturity of a factory that is seen in the official trailer: Your music choice was good and fits the buildup idea quite well but I think you should see if you can show the growth of the factory itself throug...

Personally, I'm of the opinion that Science packs are less about being a resource cost in and of themselves and more about pushing the player to add certain facilities and production lines to their factory. On which note, how well do you think adding all their variants of teir 2 modules to the produ...

Rather than balancing based on mining speed alone, why not use power requirements as well? If it's 2x2, or larger it would make sense that a robot might be too large and have to much energy requirements to charge up at a roboport, or even be unable to fly at all. Thus it makes sense that the best fu...

The idea here is simple, right now production lines are fairly linear but what if some recipes, especially high volume recipes, produced waste byproducts which could be used in other sections of the factory. Here's two illustraive examples, which don't work for their own reasons but are simple enoug...

[snip] I think the end product growth would be better to be exonential instead of linear 2× 3× and 4×. Maybe using tier 1 ore processing would yield 50% more products, tier 1 and 2 combined would yield 150% more products and tierl 1, 2 and 3 would yield 300% of more stuff. This would be to compensa...

hmm, while i do agree that later game when you get flooded with 300 notifications from 15 different attacks at the same time does get annoying, early game i want that information the way it is now. A setting in the options would work just fine for something like this though. Because when it comes d...

That still doesn't matter. I can put laser towers 5 deep with small electrical poles and 7 deep with medium electrical poles. Does it cost more? I dunno, how much would it cost in materials, time, and effort to put belts around your entire base and continuously using up ammo? It's not worth it unle...

but i agree with kerbal, water tank + backup steam is the way eco friendly biter killing maniacs roll nowadays :D even got a more or less compact design posted ^^ - you save coal - you have less pollution = less big biters Eco friendly? Pshaaaw! That's factory five talk. guess i schould have lerned...

That still doesn't matter. I can put laser towers 5 deep with small electrical poles and 7 deep with medium electrical poles. Does it cost more? I dunno, how much would it cost in materials, time, and effort to put belts around your entire base and continuously using up ammo? It's not worth it unle...

IMHO, this would only encourage people to pile up more laser turrets per area. How so? I heard a couple comments like this when I was talking about it on the IRC and I'd be curious to know exactly what you think would lead to that result. Let's say someone likes to put 3 laser turrets per electric ...

Turtle wrote:IMHO, this would only encourage people to pile up more laser turrets per area.

How so? I heard a couple comments like this when I was talking about it on the IRC and I'd be curious to know exactly what you think would lead to that result.

Despite having made many factories, it occurs to me that I have yet to actually show one. With that I present to you Phoenixian's Factory number six. http://i.imgur.com/TaANih2.png The first thing you'll notice is that between the ocean and the swamp, the base is extremely defensible. And the forest...

So I had no idea whether to put this in suggestions or balancing... Since it's a solution to a problem rather than a problem to discuss, I'll put it here. Of all defenses, laser turrets are the only ones that do not require any significant form of upkeep. Walls are repaired, Mines are replaced, Guns...

I'm sure there're existing thread already: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/search.php?keywords=Ships&fid%5B0%5D=6 There's this one https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3521&p=25861&hilit=Ships#p25861 And https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=20...

Now you may want to check this: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5400 I see, but the thing about burner inserters, and other burner machines, Isn't that they are on par or competitive with electric equipment in any given capacity --- in fact in many ways I expect them to be...

So how would the above image, combined with two smart inserters on the same wire network work? The first inserter would activate to move from the input to the output only if there were items in the chest. (Signalling a block) And the second would activate to move items back when the buffer chest was...

Ladies and gentlemen, I must admit to a horrid heresy. I am in the mid game, and I use burner mines and inserters extensively. http://i.imgur.com/NDxJIFx.png But in all seriousness, I find burner mines and inserters to be very useful for coal mines and steam plants when you're worried about power fa...

I think that should be some kind of layer, which I can switch on/off, like the pollution. Cause seeing forest on map is not useful, when you search for resources. *raised eyebrow* While knowing where trees are may not be useful in knowing where that coal vein is it's useful in most other common sit...