I love you platonically.

Nice design, hoped for burner offshore pump tho. There usually are mods for everything. With some luck , you can find one for this, too. ;.) Still, having a mod is not an excuse to have gaps in the base game. You could say this not a big deal because you don't have that many offshore pumps anyway. ...

You could also limit the number of particles per amount of damage done.
Particles would double as damage indicator, then.

wrong - I can throw red paint on that mirror and not see anything. Nice analogy. So, couldn't you change chain signals to relay the state of signals ahead only where they are not blocked by circuit? Allow to cover the mirror with a red curtain? EDIT: Or I guess, from a technical point of view, it c...

Sorry but I have to disagree with pretty much everything you've just written. Honestly, it looks like you looking for excuse for why this feature shouldn't be implemented. Yes that would be a useful example. But your solution is too straight forward: you can imitate the chain signal here with a circ...

I like the new red and blue belt sounds. The yellow one sounds more like a computer fan than such a big mechanical contraption. I would add some clatter of metal parts or some screeching. (Although, screeching would probably be too annoying.) I really like the idea that blue belt is so silent. I mea...

I support this notion!

I've just got the joke from the title.
WOW I'm fast!

This isn't going to happen. It simply doesn't work as anyone imagines it would. If a blueprint saved the connections when it was created when you built it, it would literally never connect to your existing network(s) because it was not connected to any of them when it was created. The idea is that ...

Personally, I think there should be two continue buttons for single- and multi- player. It is quite common to switch between these two modes. E.g. if you friend calls it a day and you want to play some more or if you just loading single-player for a moment to check something. Also, do you already ha...

I would like to play expanding map campaign just because it is something new and it would be fun to try it.
I wanted to write more but I'm too lazy.

I'd like to say a word regarding randomized 'hit' particle on entity damage. Particles should really have a tendency to show up closer to entity sides that are closest to the source of incoming damage. I hope this won't be that much of an overcomplication in big O terms in exchange for tidier, more...

This particle box on the roboport makes it look like the character has Parkinson's disease.

Yay! Factorio isn't monochrome anymore! I was waiting for this for a long time.

Now we only need some more upbeat music and maybe I won't require antidepressants anymore while playing.

While I generally like being challenged, it strongly depends on the type of the challenge. We need to draw the line between a demanding task and a tedious one. You don't want your game to be tedious (or at least I assume so). For example having to design you nuclear power plants in a way that will p...

"Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer and the victim."

My first thought after reading the title:

Anyway, the gist of the other thread is this: It's OK to apply very strict rules if you tell people what the rules are. In the beginning, the rules were too strict and undocumented. The developers won't ease the rules, but we have been promised that documentation will be improved. It's only OK to a...

This syntax is reaching a whole new, unknown before levels of being too strict. Why can't the parser just use some simple regexes to make things easier for modders if not actual game programmers of the game. I've written 6 simple regexes which would be fully compatible with the current syntax but el...

NPE = Null Pointer Exception. In Java (and other Java Virtual Machine languages like Groovy, Scala, and Kotlin), there is a NullPointerException that is thrown when the object is null and you are trying to access a value/property or call a function on it. In C# (and other languages that run on the ...