Just thought I should point out a potential "reason" or answer to this from the game's programming point of view. (In general game programming, not this one specifically.) But, it is likely that the farther an entity is from the player, this slower it "ticks" or "thinks&quo...

Sorry, but a world that bright would just cook. Even two times brighter will kill all life. Indeed the amount of solar power is limited to a relative small zone around a sun (relative in astronomical measures): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstellar_habitable_zone So the logical conclusion is: ...

Nice post! Thanks very much! Factorio is a great game, and I'm really looking forward to all the things you guys are working on. I searched through like 700 posts from kovarex (and my god I now appreciate even more the number of bugfixes you guys have to go through!) looking for what I recalled he ...

The map is not actually perfectly symmetric, as I didn't check chunk boundaries when making it. The miners in the right base are half a chunk closer to the biter bases, which would explain why that base suffers stronger attacks. I think you should correct this error and rerun all of the tests to co...

Overkill much? haha. Ok, I'll admit this is interesting and no, I didn't know about this bias. I can't say knowing this will impact my play style either way. Having said that, yes, I read your post :) and only a couple of questions jump out at me: In the Full Results graph, why are the L results cl...

Now, I have seen the fact that biters seem to attack more around where the player is mentioned on the forums, and I had felt it was the case myself, but I also seem to recall seeing the devs say that this was not the case. I don't just mean biters chasing the player, but being well outside aggro ran...

Hm. I can think of it like so: Per default (but see down!) the car behaves like explaned here, but in the moment, when the player - uses the A or D key or - uses a weapon - presses a mode-change key (V for example, seems to be logical key) it changes to the current behavior, until the player reente...

I'm aware that this is a change from how it currently works, but I believe this is a necessary one for making cars more usable. I believe that the "drive into thing you wanted to shoot" issue can be solved by disabling steering when using weapons. You're using your hands to fire the gun/th...

As a solution to the problem of fine control and going in a straight line using the car, I propose that an option to steer with the mouse be introduced. In the mouse steering mode the car would turn to face the position of the mouse cursor, with the arrow keys controlling speed. This would allow for...

You don't need fast inserters, just use regular inserters for this. It uses less energy Actually, surprisingly, fast inserters use less energy than regular. Fast inserters have a higher power usage while moving , but they're so much faster that they move for much less time and overall use less ener...

Friday 51: 20sec Multiplayer Friday 52: 2h Multiplayer 20sec = 0.33h in case of linear: F 51 0.33h F 52 2h F 53 3.67h F 54 5.34h F 65 24h in 10 weeks (2.5 months) we have an multiplayer :DD The critical problem is that then there will never be a FF 66, because with the developers spending over 24 h...

Unless I've made a mistake here, your calculations are off. Despite it's real life function, a laser is a projectile weapon that fires in discrete bursts requiring approximately 200 kJ per shot. A laser a maximum upgrade will deal 11 damage per shot. (I have no idea if firing speed upgrades affect ...

o mention that to power the laser turrets, you need a large power plant with huge energy reserves in accumulators, otherwise you kill your power supply when they start firing, gun turrets on the other hand, the energy is fed into them slowly and constantly as you build your ammo, so can get by on a...

To be fair to them, gun turrets are very powerful individually when fully upgraded. They will individually kill things roughly three times as fast as a laser turret. The problem, however, is that you can simply fit 3-6 laser turrets in the same space as a gun and its attendant logistic support (belt...

This may sound insane, but I have just worked out that the power requirements for the production of gun turret ammunition amount to a higher energy usage than firing an equivalent amount of laser fire. This calculation is made for fully upgraded guns using piercing rounds and laser turrets (it would...

I support a x5 placement shortcut.

*bump* - this is a nice comfort for little expense. Well, it's a bit more complicated than with the poles since devs have to rotate the endpieces and this could be way harder than it sounds^^ The end pieces already rotate when you're placing underground pipes, which does make placing them easier mo...

I tried this with the MoCombat mod, changing the projectiles to dumb fire like the shotgun breaks everything. As you cant set them to no collide with biters only. (Not enough fine control over collisions.) Isn't the effect you want for the worm projectiles not the shotgun pellet effect, but more li...

Thanks, I thought it might be interesting to see these kinds of data, glad someone else is interested. I believe that it should be feasible to track these stats, given how well the game already provides detailed information on item production and energy usage; a similarly demanding task. I'm actuall...

I suggest that the logistic bots report their time spent broken down by charging, idle, moving, and ferrying items by type. This would be accessible from a roboport, similar to an electrical network usage statistics. This would allow you to see if a certain type of resource was taking a disproportio...