Probably mix of laser and flame thrower if you have the train network to supply crude oil. Aside from that put a wall maze to amplify flamethrower effectiveness. Also put 4 or more laser in front of flame thrower so that the flame thrower doesn't waste oil trying to shoot biters just a little bit ou...

Let's assume that one rail tanker can be unloaded by at most 3 pumps from the graphic. Let's also assume that each train pump will have throughput of 90-150 fluid/s because more than 150 is wasted throughput and less than 90 is lower than regular pump in 0.15. For rail tanker to be worth it, it must...

If you make an outpost, you need to wall off your rail network. If you have a lot of outpost, your border perimeter is actually much bigger than if you just protect a wide area. On the other hand outpost is much faster to clear and you can delay the protection of your rail system for a while even th...

Honestly I don't have the answer yet too. I'm thinking an approach not using binary tree but by dividing remaining possible solution to half. Every question divides the number set to 2: The interval Barry asked (we call this set S1), and the rest of them (we call this S2). Every time Albert answer, ...

Join a club or anything which you will get groups of close friends. Bullies don't usually target those with numbers. Don't just be social butterfly, seek friends that are genuine. The idea here is so that your friend don't turns against you.

Given a positive integer n which Albert and Barry both know. Albert suddenly thinks of a number between 1 and 2^n inclusive. Barry wants to know what number Albert think of so he ask Albert some questions. Barry can only ask 3n questions with this format "Is your number between a and b?" w...

With 0.15 getting closer to be released, I think we would like to get mining productivity research (or any other infinite research) to start researching its next level immediately after finishing the last one. This would be a quality of life improvement since getting your playthrough interrupted jus...

The rest of the people that actually build the software in this world are not as smart as you are.

I think the devs are that smart. They have Russian programming champion working on optimization.

You do know many things you complaint are going to be implemented in 0.15 right? I think 0.15 going to add many train functionality like switching off train stop and reading train content. Besides, I think anything aside from dynamic train schedule is implementable with circuit network in the curren...

The thing you need is tweaked orbital ion cannon mod. You can unzip the mod and edit config.lua to change cooldown to 0. If you want it to have limited shots, then you need to edit control.lua and change the code a bit. (Might take a day or two to tweak the code)

I think if you use standard curriculum it will be hard to use factorio for teaching anywhere since it doesn't inherently teach any school subject. The best I can come up with is if you make a makeshift introductory engineering lesson in physics class. Then use factorio to spark interest to engineeri...

Is it possible to make ion cannon deorbit after certain number of firing from config file? I need some sort of meaningful infinite resource dump for my mega base.