I think it might be better if the square around the held Electric Pole changes colour, e.g. from blue'ish to red.

When placing Electric Poles, especially Medium and Big ones, I have to sit there and squint at the screen to determine whether there is or is not an ultra-thin copper-coloured line going from one already-placed Electric Pole to the one which I'm now trying to place. That's bad UI design. The UI alre...

I usually don't build Radars until mid game or so (about 2 to 3.5 hours in) because I have a sense maybe they cause the aliens to begin attacking sooner. But on the other hand, I'm too busy to explore the map manually, and that means I have zero clue as to where the alien sites are. What if I'm wron...

When I'm laying down Transporter Belts, the game shows only how many there are in the current stack, e.g. 23, 22, 21, 20, counting down as I lay them, and if the remaining stacks are in my Inventory, not in my Tool Belt, then I have no way of knowing how many I have, so I don't know what will happen...

Joined into this thread -- ssilk Everything else in Factorio is about thinking ahead, doing the Grand Mastermind Plan. You're trying to set up a factory facility that runs as smoothly as possible, idealy with no need for intervention at all, even when the aliens attack! But there's one place in whi...

The game seems to lack a genuine difficulty setting slider. I can control the size of alien Nests, and how common they are, and how strong they are, but as for alien attacks, I can either have them enabled or disabled, as a binary thing. If disabled, they won't happen until I start attacking their n...

Science Packs remain in the chest until I come get them and move them manually to the Research Building-feeding Belt. That's what inserters are for. :mrgreen: But if I limited a Chest to, e.g., 50 units of content, and then have an Inserter taking stuff out of the chest, then I don't accomplish any...

Yes, non-looped belt is the answer. To limit production, output items into a chest. It will stop when the chest is full. Click and drag the X button in the chest to change its capacity. But that won't work if I want the stuff moved from the chest onto the Belt to my Research buildings. It'll only w...

I like having one huge looped belt,with Iron Plates on one side and Copper Plates on the other. I think of this as the Grand Belt or Central Metal Pool. And then I have Assembly Machine grabbing what they need from it, and moving intermediate stuff to each other. Red Science Packs are made by 3 Mach...

If you have those set to high already, then I'm not really sure what the problem could be. That's why I'm thinking that there's some game config file, somewhere, that says 1280x960 or 1024x768, or something like that, in spite of my screen being 1600x1200, and resulting in things looking like crap ...

IMO, this should be implemented as it is expected behavior for most people. Yup. As you say, expected behaviour. We already have a bunch of extremely well-established conventions for how PC computer game interfaces should function, and Factorio ought to acknowledge and respect them. Doing their own...

Something that has bothered me for a while now is that when manually crafting an item that requires another often-used item as a component (for instance, and perhaps most noticable, pipe-to-ground using 10 pipes). Especially when the amount of components consumed is big, it can get a bit frustratin...

Electric Inserters seem, according to their stats, to have both a power drain for existing, and an additional power value (which rightly should be an energy value - power is energy per time unit, i.e. 1 watt is 1 joule per second ) for usage. I'm going into the game, loading a saved situation, to se...

Often, trees and other game terrain objects gets in the way of my grand plans. Trees I can just cut down. But is there anything I can do about the various rocks? They appear to have a Health stat, thus suggesting that they can be destroyed, but neither my Iron Axe nor the later Steel Axe has any eff...

bobingabout wrote:Mods.
Modding can easilly make that burner assembly machine.

what else do you want burner powered options for?

Mod makers =! game designers.

That's all I have to say about that.

Do we have a time for how long it takes for two facing Coal Drills to fill up? As i how many minutes it's safe to leave then unattended?

I decided to just try the most obvious guess, "iron-chest", and that worked.

Less tedium is always an improvement, though I don't know if getting free energy is the best solution. One way you could balance this would be for the recipe to require one coal or wood. Then when you place it has a full bar of energy which it can use to fuel itself. Each item-movement by a Burner ...

Thanks, but the console command is actually quicker, since I can copy/paste it into the game. Only problem was having to go into the game's settings and re-configure the keypress to bring up the console, since in my install it said "key60" which I don't know what is, and anyway non-alphabe...

Accepting the logic that Electric Furnaces must be bigger than Stone and Steel ones, why does the footprint have to be 3x3? The earlier Furnaces have a footprint of tiles, and yes the Electric Furnace clearly must have a larger footprint, but what if that larger footprint wasn't 3x3 but instead 2x3 ...