I'd love to see quickstart with robots (basically what you've written; personal roboport + armor + fusion reactor + 50 robots) in the core game - not for "special gameplay mode" but rather normal start. After enough time you get tired of building everything by hand in the early game.

Accus and solar panels are very well optimized. Bots are OK. Belts are not. Remove all belts for performance and it should be ok

Maybe Factorio patreon?

Why is Factorio development going so slow? Why .15 was so delayed? The main reason as I understand it is lack of 3d artistic workforce. They team is hiring all the time and it's in our best interest that they have found somebody. And what job could possibly be better than developing Factorio? So, if...

1) You should post that on bug reports or technical help subforum.

2) Could you provide more details? That's not intended game behavior...

You know that at first .15 will be released as experimental release with multiple bugs, right?

It's perma-beta like Minecraft. 20$ for this game is a bargain though!

Learn Haskell and monads. And write a monadic compiler of pure functions to factories.

Awesome!

€20 is super cheap for the amount of fun and time you'll have/spend with this game. Hundreds, maybe a thousand (I'm not joking!)

Known problem, reported a couple of times already. There are some workarounds with wires though.

If you are dedicated buy a couple of copies for your friends too, they make excellent gifts!

You can do it easily with Foreman Tool mod. It's like blueprint string but more convinient.

There is an AUR package for Arch Linux

Learn the hard way, it's more fun and you'll understand the game better. Then look at others' builds but only look and inspire yourself, never copy.

afair it's already implemented (or will be) in .15

we're still too lazy.

Pics, please. We're too lazy to open a map.

I recommend you try creative mode.

Do you run Linux Factorio under Cygwin on Windows?