As a casual player who doesn't find much interest in off-screen, out-of-game math, Same, yet I don't really have an issue with it as is. A part of me would like a fridge mechanic, sure, but I don't think I'm not going to enjoy it without. As such, I find your numbers a wee bit more than a little bi...

Give this a read:
https://wiki.factorio.com/Application_directory

And having a single long train that never proceeds is better than the current system, where said long train is likely to try to proceed, get stopped somewhere such that it blocks an intersection, and then create a real deadlock situation where it cannot proceed because it is waiting for another tai...

Knuth wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 09, 2024 9:59 pm

I can't seem to understand how spoilage improve optimizing. Optimizing need predict what will happen, maybe with some probability.

Actually, it doesn't. You can build unoptimized, then rebuild/tweak as you watch it in action.

The one thing about this idea that I'm unsure on, if you have a long train trying to pass through multiple busy intersections of smaller trains that don't have enough room between them for the larger one, you could end up with the larger train being deadlocked unable to proceed. In contrast, with si...

Am I like the only one who's constantly changing my toolbar layout and thus the layout from one minute to the next, let alone game, isn't the same and thus I feel this feature not worth while?

It doesn't bother me and I do like it, but an option for those it causes issues for I have nothing against.

Koub wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 08, 2024 5:59 am

"Lock quickbar slot"
or a longer "Lock item on a quickbar slot"

Except this is used for more than just the Quickbar, right?

Belts follow a linear progression in speed (+15 each tier). How is that odd? I specifically explained how that's odd - it messes up the splitter math. The fact that blue isn't double of its lower tier (exponential growth) isn't "odd" and doesn't "mess" anything up. First, the fa...

The cynical marketing tactics that make a game like Candy Crush successful, in my opinion, come down to exploiting our evolved instincts. Gambling, obviously, is the first thing that comes to mind. Many casino games have no depth, but they engage us nonetheless because we have an instinct that pref...

Ah, found it: That is not the source i thought of, which i couldn't find anyway, it was a screenshot. It could be that it was hand painted for the picture as a concept art planned for the last planet, that would be water-based and snow planet at the same time depending on the weather or region. Fro...

If we look at the images provided it seems they can stack just fine together. I imagine the system works by averaging the total spoilage of a stack, likely keeping count of the highest spoilage value of each stack as to avoid players refreshing the spoilage with new product. That's true. For some r...

My first thoughts after hearing about spoilage were about how you would implement this efficiently. My guess is, that every spoilable item needs to remember the time it was created? Also, spoilage only needs to be evaluated whenever the item is "touched" or looked at, meaning when it inte...

Does it do this without any mods?

Halting is different from Slowing though. If you have to put each product (multiples/ a stack) in belt-able container (like barrels), which slow the decay but not stop it. Allows for extension of transport ranges. But not for stockpiling of thousands of fruit/plant matter (which is questionable pro...

It is likely a crude harvester. It's not sophisticated enough to just reach into the branches and pull out only the fruit without causing serious damage to the tree itself, so it's better to just rip the whole thing down and then replant. Which would imply that a more sophisticated harvester could ...

Spoiling materials/resources create a need to be prompt with using them. Seeing spoilage times being even minutes, as stated in the FF, creates in my a sense of urgency, racing. Factorio has never been about racing to a goal, it's always been "take my time to design something". That seems...

Hmm, interesting. I will admit a part of my brain is wanting refrigerators now, but maybe the timers won't be as bad as I'm fearing. I do hope, though, that you expand the harvesting/planting mechanic to Nauvis, too, and then give us some basic uses for the wood, like wood gasification. ------------...

Hmm, I could've sworn I read somewhere that the snow at least was all done after the fact (ie, not actual in game content) or as a similar special one-off specifically for that picture, but I can't seem to find it right now. I think i remember someone posted on the forum about Earendel saying so on...

Though, now that I think about it, if the last planet ends up being Artic, and that image back in last December was an in-game screenshot. We COULD actually see something related to weather fully affecting gameplay, maybe even to the same degree as you described with slower belts and rougher train ...