In some way, bring back the object avoidance ghost mode for the rail builder removed in 0.17.29. Still hoping for this. If holding shift to get the current, post 0.17.29 behavior was not intuitive to players, then instead of removing the feature, why not simply switch the modes so holding shift was...

So I've given you three explanations I see two straightforward rules: 1) Select farther side - if this is not enough, then 2a) for straight belts select right side 2b) for curved belts select inner part of the curve (if possible - must still be on farther side) That's all. That’s actually 3, too, b...

@Eradicator, Your post is a little confusing to me. You say you expect the data (including saves) to be in one location (My Documents), but then it seems like you're bashing the MS Docs for saying the saves should be in hidden folders (which I don't think is what they're saying) and then conclude th...

I think its pretty intuitive if you come from the belt perspective Straight belt: Far side if orthogonal, right side of belt direction if parallel Curved belt: inner corner only parallel splitters look weird at first glance but if you think about that far-side thing it becomes clear^^ Except that d...

Yeah, I’d have to say that “best practice” writing code is not quite the same concept as “best practice” for how software should reside/interact with an OS. Someone else has already given their real experience with how the current setup has made things harder for them. I really wouldn’t consider thi...

Ok, that’s where I figured you were coming from (megabase stage) and I think that’s why we’re really in disagreement. As solar comes out mid/early-mid stage of the game, I consider the balance factor from there forward. And while megabases are included in this, I also do not place a lot of weight to...

I could be wrong, can’t hop into the game to double check right now, but I believe the inserters have a consistant behavior of dropping to the furthest left quadrant. I believe if you were to reverse that third example so the bottom inserter had the straight and the upper the curve, you should be a...

I could be wrong, can’t hop into the game to double check right now, but I believe the inserters have a consistant behavior of dropping to the furthest left quadrant. I believe if you were to reverse that third example so the bottom inserter had the straight and the upper the curve, you should be ab...

I think there are a few out there. I forget which one I have installed atm, though don’t know if it was updated for 0.17, either (I’m still on 0.16 stable).

Would love to see things like this become core, regrowing (and recovering) trees, breeding fish, etc.

I think what I meant with another fuel source for boilers is that you could use coal, solid fuel, etc to run the boiler. This just adds solar as one of the options. In my mind, anyway. I’m not sure about the rest. I mean, technically speaking, you could achieve the same thing with the other fuel so...

this would be nothing more than another fuel source for boilers.[*] * Steam engines/turbines I think solar boilers would be different because you could make things more complex by having the temperature from solar boiler steam change over the course of the day, which would make for some very intere...

[Koub] Please, keep focused on the topic, not on the people and their rhetorical quirks :). I think I should be allowed to take exception when said quirks serially demean other people's ideas and methods with unsupported hyperbole or double standards, BUT back on topic, as you say, I'd like to reit...

It would help if you didn't make erroneous assumptions about how other people play, for a start. I didn't. You told me that yourself: With solar, the ONLY requirement is that you find enough space to throw down a blueprint. You can't say it's the only requirement on a world where there's no space t...

If you are exhausting ore fields Nope, wasn’t saying that. no power source requires maintenance. Initial investment with no maintenance cost is a common factor for all of them. Not strictly true. All ore fields have limits and eventually you do need to find another. But also, boiler/steam gen and n...

Why shouldn't they be a primary source of power? If your argument is that it's boring tedious work that can't be automated to place down solar blueprints Nope. I feel as though they shouldn’t be a primary source of power because beyond the initial investment to build and lay down, there’s nothing l...

I think I’m in the “add weather” camp. Personally, I’m not sure that solar should be used/viewed as a primary source of energy. I almost think it should be changed to a secondary/supplemental source of energy. But that’s just me. Weather really make zero difference. It simply shifts the balance a b...

I think I’m in the “add weather” camp.

Personally, I’m not sure that solar should be used/viewed as a primary source of energy. I almost think it should be changed to a secondary/supplemental source of energy.

But that’s just me.

Yeah, you have to figure that a lot of people wouldn’t know this, or are uncomfortable with editing configs. The game really should default the saves to the userprofile as CheeseMcBurger noted, and probably the mods and all of that to either the same location or to its root install folder. Factorio ...