What, looks like you guys have plenty of room!

/me works for a small company in tokyo.

Iron is the last step on the energy-positive fusion ladder.

So really running around with fusion reactors should give us a steady supply of iron ore.

I did notice a significant and persistent performance drop when I scheduled a large portion of my factory to be deconstructed (an old research production facility that I wanted to redesign). I have 2500 construction bots that can reach there but the order was far in excess of what those bots could ...

Somethings weird about this update... I had huge performance problems due to biters/artillery, etc, on my save. Had to regularly killall the biters just to get back from <10 ups to 40. Since this last update I've been floating happily around the 30's. Statistics of biter kills seems steady so someth...

Now it's : whatever arrives in a splitter goes one right, one left, one right, one left. That's so much more logical for a mechanical splitter. True. What we need now are "smart"-Splitters :D Smart splitters would make it too easy to send every kind of item over the same belts and just th...

Artillery is an UPS killer when on death worlds.

If only we could get a mode where it could be set to also shoot all the biters, not just the nests, so that it wouldn't leave all those CPU vampires on the field.

MeduSalem wrote:Belts are throughput limited and a huge UPS killer, no matter the optimizations you make to them.

The UPS killer aspect is now pretty much gone.

Nuclear artillery seems like it would be overpowered by far. One of the things that makes the nukes balances is you need to be there on foot and there's a danger you blow yourself up.

What I'd really like to see is some kind of artillery shell that can be used to target biters automatically.

Seems they are way too cheap/easy to remove, just like water.

They should add an option to make terrain modification cheap (as now), very expensive, or disabled. And depth should impact how much you need to fill in a tile.

Artillery auto-targeting? Artillery targeting has a fixed cost per artillery piece that's active (which isn't that high). Biter movement and attacking is what's expensive and will be triggered by artillery shooting at them. When I added artillery to my border (before removing them again), they were...

Ah yes the Intel "meltdown" as it's being called, good thing I roll AMD. That sucks that you will lack higher performance then most Intel users here. We still will be rocking higher per thread performance and that is what counts in most games including factorio. I doubt factorio will be h...

Can't say, it was one crash after many, many, many hours of playing 0.16.10.

I feel sorry for memset, having to eat random NULL pointers.
Crash happened 1000.403 seconds after the last autosave finished.

When can we start carrying electricity using bots?

I'd say it's part of the gameplay having to figure out how to make things happen using the current building blocks.

One of the more important lessons to learn; look into belt balancers.

Put them where you are mining so that the belts to the furnaces are filled, right before the furnaces to allow expansion of input belts, and after the furnaces to balance the output to the factory.

During 0.15 I had a game with an UPS of 20 on my rather beefy computer, very belt heavy in anticipation of 0.16. Lots of biters. With the first experimental release I got back to 40 UPS, as expected. Added lots of artillery around the perimeter and fell back down to 25 UPS. Removed artillery, got ba...

Artillery at the walls wrecked my UPS, not practical.

When 0.16 was released I got back to playing my old save; went from 20 UPS to 40+++.

Now with 0.16.3 and quite a few hours of play, suddenly it's back down to 20 UPS, or less. The only new thing I've done is deploy artillery turrets.

Update was extremely slow and eventually gave an error.

Downloading the installer is really quick, recommended.

UPS went from 20 to 50 for my based base, and will waste my christmas.