This gets off topic, but I think this is useful discussion.



Long and complicated stuff will have a lower chance to be looked over.


SerhiSS proposed a "simple" thing

True, but it’s now in the middle of the discussion. Which has been downvoted in the beginning. It would be better to move it ...

Sharing this information over all the base could be simple, if we had wireless radio network connection.


See
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12652 Connection of circuit network over distances.

And there are some mods

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/shortwave_fix
https://mods ...

merge with similar suggestion
Note: this is implemented. Or I did misunderstand the suggestion. :)

It seems this feature needs a lot more work, so that it could be seen by everybody. And what a stupid idea to put the most interesting buttons on top of the window as very small icons. Nothing ...

merged with more or less quite similar suggestion


Imagine removing a pole with a bot at a distant outpost and not seeing that you just cut out half of that outpost, including a radar.


That can be avoided with this suggestion:
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=89065 Control ...

I reread this and I think this is a really cool suggestion. Because it points to the power of “for what could be quick replacement items also useful”. And quick replacement into the quickslots are something that jumps into the face.

And it feels there are more ideas into that direction.

merged with older thread

You can do this currently by adding stations and switches to force some kind of path through (unused, only there for adding penalty) stations.

See also
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=21899 Control Train Pathfinder (Passthru stations, Add Penalty ...

See also this discussion
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=57518 Allow Inserters to take fuel from trains again

I see this as counter suggestion.

I have merged this thread. Look for the headings to read it in context!

There is a mod
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/disable_a ... _artillery
See viewtopic.php?p=575239#p575239

There are similar subjects:
viewtopic.php?p=480653#p480653

There is a mod which implements move to mouse click (I call it Diablo movement). Not the same as suggested but similar and could surely changed.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/move-with-mouse-updated

Do developers really read all comments on posts?
Of course.
Not. ;)

… even me is not reading everything. There are clear signs that some devs have “their” subjects. Like boskid with trains. But as dev I wouldn’t bother. When it’s time to implement a new feature I would make a search for the ...

For a business, the leads to the question of if or how much return on investment (in the broadest sense) will be achieved compared to some other use of time... In other words, priority.


- it already exists and is working
- took much longer than expected
- financial success is questionable ...

One obvious issue with a stacked area chart is that it won't work well if the order of data series changes while you're looking at it; a similar problem to the reordering of the values under the chart.

Luckily there are more suggestions around.

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t ...

I think we all have no good idea what are the real problems , what hinders wube to make an arm version. We can make clever guesses, which are in their eyes might look quite naive (because they have solved those things already). :D


So I currently think the problems are not as simple as described ...

@SerhiS it’s just the way this goes: suggestions are “just ideas”. There is this problem and I suggest to solve it like so. There is no property. There is nothing to prevent turning the idea by 180 degrees.

The community gives developers options they can choose from and we have no further influence ...

posila wrote: Wed Sep 28, 2022 7:18 am

ssilk wrote: Wed Sep 28, 2022 5:10 am What should then happen, if you turned the background animation off?

What do you mean?

You can turn the whole animation stuff off. When I remember correctly there is a small button in the right corner. Then it displays just a 3d-rendered background image.

Yes. The actual bottleneck is the RAM, not CPU.

Interesting idea. What should then happen, if you turned the background animation off?

If you’re still interested I would write to wube now.

I’m sure this suggestion already exists, but couldn’t find it.

And this is not only useful for power and pollution, but any type of statistics.

Please don’t mix spilling when canceling crafting .vs. spilling when inventory shrinks!

Luckily we have this already: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=96364 Smarter Armor Behavior on Quickbar / Swapping armors / Manage item spilling when swapping armor

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Strange, how opinions ...