Or new player play with mod ? Since mod are 80 % feature of this mage and 400 % more harder than vanilla (Nit mod that makes this game easy. I am talking about (bob,angel,pyn coal mod) I'm not taking mods into account when talking about new players - they rarely use mods, and those that do I assume...

Personally, I found that the tedium of oil processing and blue science eases up considerably when you have a clear plan of factory expansion, a collection of premade blueprints, and possibly a mod that improves early game construction speed (bots from the start, nanobots etc). Lots of experience beh...

A question. Can the upgrade planner be added to an already existing game? I tried, and there's an upgrade planner item to craft, but no configuration GUI button in the top-left, so I guess something went wrong with mod initialization. 4reference: I'm running Loader Redux, Ghost Copier and Nanobots f...

Belt upgrades will behave in a different way in the future: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-206 Your suggestion (while not bad) is mutually exclusive to that actually I can see it working by having it replacing (with blue belt in hand) blue splitter --> blue belt (same tier) and red splitter...

A question though. Do the requester chests really need the ability to calculate demand of connected entities? I would rather see an "auto-adjust" checkbox for them, which would make the requester increase it's demand by 25% each time it runs empty. This may cause some hiccups at the start,...

Suggestion It would be fantastic if belt placement had the same size-scaling feature as landfill and bricks/concrete, so it would be possible to place an entire block of belts at once. It would be even better if belt placement took already existing belts into account when changing direction, so whe...

Suggestion When upgrading the belt system, I have to constantly switch between belts, underground belts, splitters and loaders. It would be great if I could upgrade all placed logistic items with a belt - for as long as I have a matching replacement in my inventory. So if I run along a belt line wi...

The whole point of the game is its complexity. The challenges around efficiently setting up complex production like oil is where the game gets real. You seem to have completely missed the point that quineotio was trying to make. It's not complexity that's the issue, but the duration . Period when o...

It's possible to setup the station to read train's contents or ID, and set departure condition to Any > 0 This will force the train to stay for a tick or two, mission accomplished. And I use zero-wait stations in combination with a disabled/enabled station for remote signaling. The train will stay o...

Note: Bobs mods have sniper turrets. They have a longer range but lower repetition. So you can attack worms with the sniper turret but bitters will overwhelm them. You have to protect them with normal turrets. I think that need to combine weapons makes the game more interesting. There should be mor...

A powerup delay isn't supposed to prevent you shooting bitters. Try attacking worms with that. A 5s powerup delay means the worm has 5 extra seconds to shoot your turret before it takes any damage. In those 5 seconds you are going to loose turrets against a nest of worms. Try 30s and you might not ...

Very much agree. Except horizontal axis should be from right to left, with negative time values (it's essentially looking into the past, and right border is always zero).

Alternatively, only have [-] and [+] buttons to offset the value by 1, and multiply their effect by 10 if Shift or Ctrl are pressed. If both are pressed, multiply by 100. Should be enough for most purposes.

I've been thinking about what Lav said about scanning bonus sectors being 'more speed', but I feel that's perfectly in line with how productivity in assemblers works. You don't see the extra item for free there as 'more speed' when actually it kind of does directly equate to that, rather than just ...

Sweet. 10/10, will use in my next train station.

Great to see work being done on the GUI. Some comments below. 1. Buttons outside of the window frame ensure that it will be impossible to dock windows properly - or that user will find those buttons hidden by the edge of screen when moving windows to natural positions at the edge. Missing the button...

You're right about the others, but surprisingly Defender Capsules do not require oil. Hmm, indeed they don't. Weird, I was so sure they do. Bad me. :-/ I will concede it is possible to roll maps that royally screw the player in terms of oil - but a player can simply reroll until getting oil in the ...

Nah, I'm saying there are situations where turret creep is still the only solution. I'd find this debatable. For example I like to play on Deathworlds. One thing I do is run around the starting area and preemptively put turrets down on iron patches and oil patches. That way I get no nasty surprises...

Suggestion When a player is trying to drive a vehicle that's out of fuel, and has some fuel in his/her inventory, the vehicle should be automatically refueled with a single stack of the most efficient fuel player has. Why Because manual refueling of a freshly placed car doesn't add any challenge to...

You're saying players are "supposed" to use turret creep. Ironic, no? Nah, I'm saying there are situations where turret creep is still the only solution. That you don't play games like that doesn't mean others don't. So your crusade against turret creep is effectively a crusade against ot...