Just to clarify-is creep needed for other 'buildings' like spawners and such? Also, neat idea- worms could grow without creep in the direction of the pollution, in advance of the creep. This also implies a new turret building-one that is stronger, but dependent on creep.(Also, artillery variants of ...

Does this connect input all wires to output all wires, or does it only connect red to red and green to green? Or is something else?
Are the middle connections the ones that control the switch?

I second the notions re: new mechanics required, Artillery turrets and worm variants, and other new enemy types. Adding to chemical warfare, for me, would be a nice addition. Instead of poison capsules leaving a stationary killzone, poison gas should drift with the wind(reducing effectiveness agains...

Just for completeness: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3394#p24833 - especially topic 3c. One of my reasons for proposing this was elaborated on earlier-it lets us mess with the heat pipe system earlier, and figure out how to use it before figuring out nuclear plants. The other ...

I don't understand the picture. :oops: As I understood this suggestion we could use a furnace to heat the heat exchanger. So where in that pic is that "connection"? Besides that I think this is worth thinking about much deeper, cause that goes a lot into direction of more modular machines...

Haha one could use the electric furnace for a perpetuum mobile :D but the heat storage in watertanks could be an idea -> use solar at day and water with turbine at night I once read that tanks can store immense energy Well, that's what I meant by incorrectly balanced: if the power you get out of bo...

As an engineer I have some technical but also logical concerns: 1) I would like to see the new "boiler" more as a "heat exchanger" and NOT as a furnace which consumes coal! 2) furnaces could have reactor-like hot parts which connected to "heat exchangers" aka boiler to...

factorio_powerplant_suggestion.pdf my suggestion and how the circulating water could make sense. please correct if I am wrong with anything Nice idea, I like most of it. On the lower left I think you changed the conections on the boiler Personally prefer the furnace-heat pipe-boiler idea from earli...

Gertibrumm, would you mind if I made a suggestion thread for the boiler-furnace idea? I have a prompt written up and everything.

That should be a fairly easy thing to add in a mod(adding what you describe and removing vanilla bits) once the heat pipe stuff has been added to the game. I'm personally a fan of some simplification at the expense of some realism to keep the early-mid game from becoming a bit tedious. -A fellow IR...

Another idea would be to require "maintenance parts" to operate at 100% efficiency after a specific amount of time. If ignored, productivity drops to a minimum, let's say 50%. Idea: Instead of dedicated "maintenance parts" or repair packs, have modules take damage as used. When ...

The problem with showing max possible production is that it can vary, sometimes unpredictably. Solar cells are the most predictable-production during the day, no production during the night, very strict schedule-but it still varies. Steam engines are dependent on the temperature of the input fluid. ...

Specialized casks are used to handle nuclear fuel/waste safely. Radiation would kill you after only a few minutes of exposure of enriched uranium. Again, this is up for discussion if you'd asked me. If we are looking for ways to make this part of the process more challanging, we can consired this a...

Batteries in factorio are a fairly short and linear process, and the components used can also be used elsewhere (sulfuric acid, the least versatile component, is still used in Processing Units, and raw sulfur can be used in explosives...) In general, all items in factorio have at least two possible ...

Stakes and barbed wire would be nice as an early defensive item-something to substitute for turrets.
I'm for that. Not so much the rest, although the grenade launcher looks interesting.

I was thinking more "trap them in a pen and then unleash them upon my unwary enemies." But ya, you're right about them breaking out. You'd need a way to repair the walls automatically, without stupid bots flying over the pen....hm... Maybe a stationary repair arm? Made from a couple of ins...

Sounds nice. Although I'd prefer a checkbox method. "Attack hostiles", "Attack neutrals", "Attack Aliens" and the like. Also you'll probably want something for Gates as well. "Open for friendlies", "Open for neutral", etc etc. If there's an "Ope...

You could have it be tied to an item-call it a Remote- that a scanner can read mouse input from. Say, it outputs the X,Y position of the last click.
When you want to do other stuff, just put the Remote away.

Could you make a scanner that reads a player's mouse input, or the chat?

So we can command units in the field.

Wish I could help...but I don't know the first thing about LUA either.

Suppose we could combine this with AI lorries? Like, an autonomous trailer truck that can haul an intermodal countainer a relatively short distance, and is smaller than a Well car and locomotive? To balance, the Well car could carry two containers at a time, while lorries can only haul one. So Well ...