I trying to build small bases and I would say Efficiency modules help a lot to save on space and minimize power usage. I try to avoid Solar power, as it's too space consuming and looks ugly.

When you try to design a small base for crafting only research and you realize how many furnaces you need for Iron Plates alone...

I disagree with OP. I would rather see more use for iron sticks (as other wrote - concrete). The same goes for wood - I would love to see wooden walls and wooden floors.

Then introduce also chromium, nickel and titanium ore. Smelt the proper stainless steel in the furnace. If you miss the ratio, it will rust or break.

My last 0.15 game came to a halt after setting up blue and black science. I realized that my science setup is crap and I need to rebuild it in a nice way. As I already have access to all science packs, I'm working off-game to come up with a solution for self-sufficient science complex, that will nee...

IMHO it should be for loading only and interact only with chests and trains. Sorry, but it sounds like you want to arbitrarily and illogically cripple loaders. Please elaborate what harm you think will come from allowing loaders to unload containers/wagons, and from allowing them to interact with b...

IMHO it should be for loading only and interact only with chests and trains.

Power consumption is debatable.

I would like to see some kind of a plow on the train, so it can push to the side any mobs it can't run over, without loosing too much speed. Personally I think guns won't be practical against larger enemies - I would go with some kind of shelds or deflectors to keep the trains safe and repel the ene...

I couldn't write this better myself.

Understood if this is an intended feature, however, this opens up ways to cheat the system. One could simply lay out a bunch of heat pipes and create a large thermal battery, and only cycle reactors to maintain the temperature of the large chunk of heat pipes above 500C. I think the storage tanks s...

I was holding off with taking on the biters until I had a Tank loaded with Cannon shells. I rushed on the biter bases... and then realized that it's way more efficient to simply run them over. Full speed ahead and don't look back! Would it make sense to add some kind of bulldozer shovel graphics to ...

Is the pollution spread affected in any way in 0.15? Maybe that is what is nerfing the bugs down?

I'm a couple of hours into 0.15 on standard settings and I haven't been attacked yet. However I changed the spawner spreading significantly (I hate when the map turns all red) and I blamed it on that. What I noticed in 0.14 was that biters would attack even if you didn't reach them with the pollutio...

4. Trying to do the same thing with perfect assembler utilization.
5. Use more trains turning this game into Transport Tycoon without cities.

I'm sacrificing the min-maxing for practicalities. I'm more willing to have some assemblers under-used than fiddle with some awkward layouts.

But maybe at some point I will try to get to those perfect setups...

I wish burner inserters could pick coal from the furnaces to feed themselves...

Does this mean you can unload the labs with inserters into a crate as well?

Is there a way to vote you guys somewhere as the golden standard of game development?

3 days, 3 new series of bug fixes. AMAZING!

I'm surprised it was not created so far. Is it really that big of a deal that the AAs are gone?

Similar to some other people in this thread, I take more engineering than math approach. I won't bother with perfect radio of it's getting the job done.

I would welcome some more "chaos", like random breakdowns, slow downs or damaged items, so it resembles real life more accurately.

On top of that use exclusively burner inserters.