TL;DR Change trains / rail research so players aren't encouraged to rush most of it at once. What ? Rail, Automated Rail, and Rail Signals research should have their costs re-worked, to incentivize players using each tier of research without always rushing. (Signals could probably stay separate, to...

You can already use stone furnaces to build boilers. After that, just put them into a chest, and explode the chest.

+1 for deconstruction books. What are greenprints, though?

TL;DR Some rocks should have different ores, similar to how some rocks have stone+coal. What ? Make some rocks have different ores, for variety and little bonuses! For example: Big rock with stone and uranium ore. Small rock with mostly iron ore. Big rock with some copper ore and some iron ore. Don...

I was unaware people used filter inserters for special train-setups. I only ever saw the other types of inserters, when for example, googling for "efficient yellow belt train unload". I'd totally be down for having inserters get filtering for free, like splitters. As far as filtering with ...

Koub wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 27, 2018 6:41 am

You're reviving a 5 year old topic that's been dead for 2 years <_<

Although that would be fewer inserter types, it would be more overall complexity in the game. In the system I propose, you'd have: burner inserters inserters long-armed inserters stack inserters stack-size upgrades (possibly) speed upgrades In your system, if I'm understanding you correctly, you'd e...

BlakeMW wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 31, 2017 9:15 am

it should be removed from the game.

+1 for removing the shotgun from the game.

Some people have said you can use it for power storage (steam in a tank that feeds a turbine/generator when power is low) but, I'd rather just use an accumulator instead. I actually really like the option to store electric energy in steam tanks. I can already do that with burner-boilers and nuclear...

TL;DR Reduce the seven inserter types, to four: burner, normal, long-armed, stack. What ? Definitely Remove blues from the game. Remove purples and whites from the game. Maybe Add inserter-speed upgrade(s). Remove partial-stack bonuses from non-stack inserters. Why ? Yellow inserters are useful onl...

I like this idea! Put in gaem naow plz! :D

I wouldn't mind a direct limit on hand-crafting items, but I think burner assemblers and burner research are better, because it doesn't force the player to play a certain way. They can come to the realisation on their own, that some recipes are going to be made in bulk, so they should automate them ...

Another way to reduce the tedium of setting up oil outposts, would be to force all oil patches in the world to align to a grid, and give enough space between them to always have room for pipes. Then you could shift-click + run, to place multiple pumps, or make a blueprint for the later game. Right n...

I definitely agree with the first two points; Discouraging hand-crafting is a pretty good goal. Alternately, make a level-0 Burner Assembler, before you get the electric one. I know there's a few mods that do this, but I think it should be in the base game, again to discourage hand-crafting.

Maybe a couple different avatars to choose from? Beefy, medium, tall, small, fat, times by female neutral and male?

Alternate (and 15x cheaper) solution - just make the player avatar look like a cute WALL-E style robot or a bug-hating alien or something.

This creates throughput problems [for the player to solve] Most implementations expect a performance of O(n log n) or something along the order if the participants are sparsely distributed. log(n) is still a lot slower for a game pushing the limits of available hardware. If a base has a thousand bo...

I would also like these map generation settings changed; Frequency and size should be independent. I don't know how hard it would be to change this, and keep the random shapes you get, by using the current method that's mostly (or appears to be) just a noise function plus some thresholds.

Not really. Nuclear power is simple compared to trains. I think my original phrasing was poor here. I was in fact saying that nuclear power in this game is a simple puzzle compared to trains, and actually linked to a video of somebody sharing the same sentiment. :) Either way, the description is ba...

"Refined Concrete" makes normal "Concrete" obsolete inside the factory. You may as well as remove "Concrete" and leave only "Refined Concrete" because everyone will be going for "Refined Concrete" anyway." By this logic, the devs should remove ...