I understand that part of making a good game also requires pruning and culling things, in order to arrive at a good game. It is also true that players will choose the way of least resistance, and possibly ruin their fun by going the path of least resistance. I however take issue with the overall fe...

Why not break up Logistics bots into two separate types? Logistics Delivery Bots, which are much faster than belts but only hold 1-4 items, and have a very short range before needing to recharge. These would be the bots that could catch up to the player and deliver them items, but could also move a...

to summarize my posts since I have been thinking about this while reading other replies... belts are 1 dimensional. they are either lines or dotted lines on the plane that you play the game on; being normal belts or underground belts. if you want to make belts more interesting make belts that can in...

to summarize my posts since I have been thinking about this while reading other replies... belts are 1 dimensional. they are either lines or dotted lines on the plane that you play the game on; being normal belts or underground belts. if you want to make belts more interesting make belts that can in...

I agree. change beacons. leave robots alone, add more belt mechanics, and have robots unlock after those new mechanics just as they do already. all remains well in factorio

Stacked belts! bring them on... I'd think adding more 3Dish stuff to game would be great. I don't see nerfing bots help us have more fun in general or specifically with belts. I think belt enhancements would help make the belts more fun. I really hope you are not the only other person that agrees.

I will remind my idea about ropeway conveyors: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7977 http://i.imgur.com/4cK4dHk.jpg This system could replace the logistic robots. The ropeway wagons loaded with the cargo (stored inside like in the chests) would be just moving along the line, and ...

more on the idea of a 3d belt factorio... there could be 3 "elevator" objects (more like spiral staircase) that have internal belts that spiral upwards these are 2x2 objects. one is a single belt version. the belt starts on the left of the 2x2 spiraling to the right, the other version is r...

there would need to be a splitter for going up and down on a layer of belts, and the top belts could easily drop onto a belt below and merge or overflow with that belt. timing the merge would be the tricky part. This totally makes me think of the path building system in Roller Coaster Tycoon, you c...

if you want to make belts more interesting make belts that can intersect on that plane and move upwards into the 3rd dimension of the game. Do you mean just adding elevated belts or are you talking full-scale dwarf-fortress style Z-axis here? as someone mentioned undergrounds belts are not really u...

if you want to make belts more interesting make belts that can intersect on that plane and move upwards into the 3rd dimension of the game. Do you mean just adding elevated belts or are you talking full-scale dwarf-fortress style Z-axis here? as someone mentioned undergrounds belts are not really u...

belts are 1 dimensional. they are either lines or dotted lines on the plane that you play the game on; being normal belts or underground belts. if you want to make belts more interesting make belts that can intersect on that plane and move upwards into the 3rd dimension of the game. that would make ...

yes thats the same issue. thank you.

same here. was on auto compression so I had to manually turn it to false

http://www.mediafire.com/file/bdd6e5ah4 ... urrent.log

was working fine on .16.2

ah, well I usually just plop down a few blueprints and setup a little assembly with a requester / provider chest and let it build slowly no need for it to build instantly

doesn't seem right. 104x4 would be only 416 solar panels? why does it require 4 roboports then? this is actually overlapping the roboport coverage. and is half the size of the last one I just posted. kinda silly. should only need 2 roboports, not 4

@MBas are we looking at the same designs? I was talking about the designs in this post: http://imgur.com/a/pcU0D they are clearly not within the construction area as far as the OP, it could use a few redesigns. empty spaces are room for improvement edit: also, yes, I realize you can get even better ...

@Sicnarf The problem is none of those designs have full roboport coverage. Mine does and still is on the high end of space efficiency and within the .84 ratio Single Ratio Array Robo Out 193/220=.877 most space efficient overall power production 220*.042=9.24 MW + 193*.3=57.9 MW = 67.14 MW charge 16...

My improved version, based on the same design... Single Ratio Array Robo In 168/200=.84 perfect ratio. 200*042=8.4 MW + 168*.3=50.4 MW = 58.8 MW charge 168*5/8.4=100 seconds Space Efficiency: (220 * 3) + 193 + 16 + (4 * 4) = 885 ? total spaces... (100 / 885) * ((220 * 3) + 193 - 8) = 95.48% ? remove...