Gooosh yeah I'm a retard. Totally forgot to include a tech when I disabled the recipes. :D Sorry. Leave your version here, that's totally fine. Xtrafresh you have no idea how motivating it is to see something like that. You thought about whats going on, put work into it, etc. Thanks, and also thank...

Agreed on the helipad map preview. I'm assuming there's plans to be able to name the helis and helipads the same way you can name train stations. They're all unique anyway, so that shouldn't be too much of a problem? The clicking on the helicopter to control it becomes apparent when you have multipl...

So I decided to actually make an effort instead of setting you to work some more. I edited the recipes for the helipad and the remote, and at first glance, everything works as expected. LOVE what this can do with the remote. Some VERY first observations: Can you make the heli shoot at biters while I...

Am also VERY interested in playing around with the remote. I can't find it either as a craftable item, it also isn't mentioned as a research or as an item unlocked by the heli research. Some more polishing to do?

Keep up the sweet work, I'm a fan!

What I usually end up doing is building a small "minibus" with QoL items that flow from the first smeltery. an 8-belt bus can easily build all the items you commonly nee for building and the first three or four science packs. With yellow and purple science and modules after that, things es...

I am highly intrigued... but how does the copper get from carriage to carriaage... I may have to put this in my test world to see how it works. So the rail wagon is sitting on the rails, it doesn't occupy the ground below it, the rail does. But the car's hitbox extends one tile beyond it's wheel, m...

Perhaps highlighting the rails and dividing lines? rail block vis example.png Another vote for this! I'd only need it to be visible when i'm working on the rails, so when i'm holding either signals or rails. Highlighting a section (by brightness) on mouse over while holding these would also be nice...

I like it! Every time you don't think there's any more wiggle room for improvement, something like this comes along

Wouldn't it be cool if you had a train combine/split station? 4 LCCCCL trains enter on one side and then on the other side a single LCCCCL-LCCCCL-LCCCCL-LCCCCL exits and vice versa. Somebody please write a mod that can (programmably) split, join and rearange trains. Hey, that really isn't a bad ide...

Pet peeve time: OP asks HOW to accomplish a certain task, and the forums erupt in a discussion about why it's a bad idea, with nobody trying to answer the actual question. A few people here are at least adding info, so hurray for the factorio forum I guess :) Anyway, a single rail system like you de...

Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

... Did you mean to post this on some Ubisoft forum somewhere? Seriously, it looks like you came in the door angry, without first having a good look around to see if there was anything to be angry about. This kind of negative attitude and instant lawyerification of something that's supposed to be do...

Amen. I think the typical factorio player has at least two to four monitors already, so it's not like this would be spending development time on a feature that only 5% of the player base can use

You could just put an extra inserter in the gap between wagons to make sure all wagons get unloaded at the same speed. As PetWolverine said, the OCD-friendly version uses an even number of "unload bays", but otherwise, there's no right or wrong about this approach. I've seen it done with L...

Super nice designs! I'll come back soon™ with my own take on it. This wouldn't be factorio if some smartass didn't have things to improve

Awesome! thanks for the test, and I'm pretty happy with the result. I feel like I won something, lol.

We are using Factorio for problem solving, critical thinking and other soft skills. I think that when thinking of uses for games in the classroom, people get too hung up on the "what does it simulate?" train of thought. As we know from Factorio, some trains are very dangerous! When dealin...

This is awesome. And bad.

It almost seems to me that moving items this way is faster than even driving a train to move across the map. Also, so may have just saved my longplay from becoming bot based. Thanks for this.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with this channel, it's sarcasm, technology and the universe narrated. Pretty damned funny most of the time.

He gives a cool shoutout at 3:33, the whole video is worth watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4pR--qJTdU

Not a bad idea! It does seem like you are doubling the amount of trains on the track, as everything you produce now requires two trips to get to where it's going. As long as you have enough tracks, I guess that's ok, but for the super-high-throughput megabases this might add extra strain on the syst...