TL;DR Subway stations that players can use to quickly travel around their factory. What ? Subway stations are small buildings you can place. Once there are two on the map, you can go to either, open up a UI and connect them - this will cost resources based on direct distance. After this the UI will...

Well, for me it does not need to be all ordered and neat, it just shouldn't have shenanigans like water creating donut shapes, half the resources on the other side of the lake (or any for that matter) or resources overlapping badly (like oil patches inside my iron field). Even if just half of those ...

I've been noticing that oil seems to spread out if there is water close to the center of the field. Usually the single patches are rather close to each other, but in these cases they are all over the place. I'm sure it's because it tries to spawn the oil patches, can't and then moves them to the edg...

In general I think that part of the game is handling the randomness. So making prefabricated starting area with resources placed specifically and grouped seems... strange for me. Outside of starting area, sure. Inside starting area all the randomness does is make you walk 200 tiles around a lake to...

Angels Infinite Ores: data.lua --OIL YIELD CHANGE MODIFIER angelsmods.ores.oilyield = settings.startup["angels-oil-gas-yield"].value * 100 100 needs to be 1000. My oil well that started with like 250% yield depleted at 5%, that shouldn't happen. It should deplete at 20% of initial value. I...

What it comes down to is -> roll map you generally like -> save -> command prompt map2scenario -> open scenario in map editor -> edit starting area as you like -> start scenario like a savegame. If at any point you want to edit your map again you can do the same thing once more. It's tedious though.

Every vanilla factory will eventually reach a point where it's impossible to continue growing income because all time is spent replacing existing sources of income. We can delay reaching this point by sourcing from way more patches than necessary in the earlier part of the game. For example: instea...

Would also be great if trains would snap to the indicators when placing them at a train stop. Currently you need to put fuel into them and order them to drive up the the train stop.

I like the idea. I was also thinking about how to fix bitters, possibly by adding a new radar that can predict when the next attack is to avoid forcing the player to drop what their doing to deal with it. Sorry I rewrote the entire post. The same ideas apply. Now I fixed many more of the glaring is...

More diverse turrets and enemies. Wish biters were more than a tedious nuisance (at least if you chose something like Biter Difficulty: Hard). And I wish defense was more than just throwing down walls and turrets everywhere.

Always love when people throw around the realism card in games.

I wouldn't mind decorative plastic trees just so I can make an avenue.

Why Combat is secondary in Factorio, it's not an RTS, the combat cannot be too complex or hard, but that does not mean it needs to be bland and boring, it just needs to be elegantly designed. The general spirit of the current implementation can be kept, but some big changes are necessary for the co...

Tbh I have no idea too. I tried to ask on modding forums but I don't think I got answer about how it actually works. I didn't do that much playtesting to check how initial richness compares to minimal if at all. Oil patch minimum yield already does scale with distance. It's either 20% of the initia...

Oil patch minimum yield already does scale with distance. It's either 20% of the initial yield or 2/s which ever is larger. Thanks, that's what I was assuming, but now I know for sure. Now I can go and tell orzelek, because he was wondering this too. As for my suggestion - it obviously is already i...

Personally my problem with RSO starting areas (I don't have modded ores, so my space requirement is the minimum) is that it tends to place some resources next to the water, as in ... right next to it, so the ores float over the edge and give no wiggle room for any construction. Water often comes in ...

ssilk wrote:Hm. Have you see the title-pic on the main-screen?
Do you really think, the devs will ever enable to have nice green trees there?
It makes no sense.

Plastic trees! Hah!

Have you tried turret zerging? I use 6 legs 4 personal roboports mark II's Then place about 100 turrets right around their base. Almost no challenge and I only very rarely lose a construction bot much less a laser turret. or if you are really flushed with resources Nukes are stupid easy. Biters are...

From the 0.15.0 patch notes Infinite resource minimal yield is calculated using the initial resource amount and the prototype minimum yield. This means that as you go out and the initial yields increase, so does the minimum yields. I quoted this twice already, asking if this is what I think it is. ...

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&p=283818#p283818 I just made this thread sharing my RSO settings. I dislike expanding due to resource depletion because you don't actually expand, you just relocate. I prefer infinite resources and small patches so you need to expand for more throug...

I've finally achieved what I tried doing for quite a while: Creating settings, with the help of mods, that create maps that are fun to play on, without having to edit the map manually or rerolling it for 50 times. Disclaimer This is what SyncViews and me consider fun maps. There is logic and game de...