valneq wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 27, 2020 6:13 pm

If we had this, we could paste a 4x4 balancer on top of 4 belts on the bus, right?

That is a different request, more akin to this: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=59554

Edit: Refocused due to tone-deaf appearance of remaining text in light of neutralized context. The visual style is good to be consistent, but also worth remembering that if everything is trying to stand out in color, nothing will stand out other than the aggressively vivid colors as a whole. Clear c...

This would be very helpful in 1.1. Have normal and shift-place stay the same as in 1.0, and add an extra modifier key for overriding current ghosts with new roations or upgrades. That's an argument for ctrl-shift rather than shift-right click; it would be a more forceful placement rather than simpl...

Truth be told I'd rather have a UI more like the Signal/Filter Selection UI, with the ability to set requests on each of the valid items in-game, sorted and grouped appropriately in the panel itself rather than requiring a separate pop-up (though it is less inconvenient than it used to be, with E to...

Sort currently enabled mods to the top. This can make it clear exactly what you actually have enabled at any given time. Giving it a sort arrow like we have for Name and Version would look consistent with the rest of the UI. +1 The idea was to be able to see, at a glance, what all is and is not com...

It looks like the spidertron‘s leg on the very right side is in front of the train even though it‘s standing behind the track. Or am I just seeing things? Sprite layer limitations. The legs are rendered in front of the train regardless of position, which works for the bottom two but causes the &quo...

detecting and following progress in-game might feel more restrictive. Can you not just look at the techs researched for the most recent save? It was not a question of how, but why: Why should it be limited when the whole point is to highlight things to come, maintaining player interest and motivati...

Would be kinda cute if it progressed through the different stages of the game based on your last save file, with the first version being just some grass and a forest That's certainly a neat feature of the Half Life and Portal games. It would be fitting for Factorio if there were a campaign focus, b...

Spidertron now supports copy-paste, which not only copies the color, name, and logistic requests, but even the equipment grid contents, which it takes from the player doing the operation if possible. This removes the tedium of setting up additonal Spidertrons. Any plans to make vehicles blueprintab...

Revision is indeed in order. Admittedly I went too "pure" with the idea intending it to be simple. In testing the concept I originally used rail signals only for the start of a train stop area. Later I found it worked with entirely chain signals (working with new players and demonstrating ...

I think that use of the + and - keys to lay landfill and concrete/brick in larger or smaller patches per click and with click drag would be helpful in the tips. I still find myself telling players in multiplayer about this trick on a regular basis. Coaxing players toward the hotkey menu and making ...

You can use z to drop a single module into a machine, no need to open the UI. Huh, I didn't know that. Should maybe be a tip, then. I also didn't know about Z dropping modules into assemblers. Cool. Yeah, bonus tip right there :) This was a surprise module-specific TIL for me and gets my vote to in...

One thing I think might synergise with the train stop limit, is giving trains the option to have a "fallback station", somewhere they only path to if all other stations are disabled or full. I've seen quite a few people talk about having depots where trains stay if they aren't needed, but...

But the program didn't grey out the selection, it removed it from the menu completely, giving you no idea that it was there in the first place. ... I prefer to see an option, even if I can't use it, and I think most Factorians would too. Good point, I like the idea. In fact, the tech tree design re...

conn11 wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 08, 2020 5:21 am

knocking back the biters would be superbly useful

bobucles wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 08, 2020 2:59 pm

Even if a knockback effect proves troublesome, a stun effect would be very useful for mitigating melee damage.

The knockback and stun are implemented in 1.0; it's the auto-fire and potential acid cleaning that are concepts only.

TL;DR Reverse the sorting order of the two signals in the crafting/filter menus. signals.png What ? Introduce chain signals for the entire network (forcing trains to reserve the entire path) as the simple , guaranteed deadlock-free (train won't move unless it can go the whole distance) signaling me...

Time to necro a 5 year old thread with a modern addition! Stun and knockback were added, but it's still a manually activated device, largely unused. Rather than melee alone, it could also be if the shields are depleted [below a threshold?], and clear any acid around the player , aiding their escape.

Worth noting that in addition to the Update Contents button of the base game, there's this mod for editing a blueprint in a pocket dimension (alternate surface) just as the tutorials function: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Edit-Blueprints

Also somewhat related is some of the behavior in this mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GhostBuster

I am unsure at this time whether such changes would be universally beneficial or potentially cause problems, however.

TL;DR Health bars can be hard to see, so highlighting / making them more prominent while holding a repair pack would be a great addition. What ? health bar repair.png There's a health bar "visible" here, even with the character in the way...but you can imagine how easily this would hide w...