Just because people don't finish the game, doesn't mean they have lost. Losing happens when the biters are literally shrinking your base and you are not able to hold them back anymore. I imagine almost all of the people who never launched a rocket walked away becoming bored and/or overwhelmed by the...

I find it odd that so few people play at a level which includes the possibility of losing?

I die from biters more than 75% of the time and love that I fail.

^^^^^ I agree with this ^^^^^

I played with the new science recipes and I think the game is in a pretty good place.

Wow! There are a lot of changes to biters: no more stuck biters, belts look almost useless in comparison to the past for messing with them. I always thought that solution was gamey and am glad to see it minimized. The fact that spawners used to absorb WAY MORE pollution than the number of biters the...

I couldn't get the mod to install properly. I just went back to having the minimal amount of trees. The instructions on this forum for installing mods doesn't work for me. I followed them to the T.

To launch a rocket on vanilla deathworld/marathon, with 100% desert, very small starting position, maxed biter nests, minimum settings on trees, and only 3 oil wells or less within a decent range of my base. I find that once I have enough oil the game is easy as you can just laser the shit out of th...

I literally have never built a bot for anything in this game. They seem like cheating to me and this game is already ridiculously easy. So I guess any changes wouldn't affect me at all?

I purposefully play on all desert maps, very small starting position, maxed out biter nests, with with minimal trees, marathon/deathworld to increase difficulty to the maximum in the base game with no mods. At this setting I often have a hard time getting to blue science and I love it. I need these ...

I thought if I made the game have no trees to increase difficulty to the max that there would still be some dead logs on the ground. But actually there are no trees at all... dead, alive, logs on the ground, tooth picks, tongue depressors, nothing. I don't think I can play without any telephone pole...

I have over 500 hours in game. It is amazing how little I understood about this game until I set the difficulty at maximum. At lower difficulty it never seemed to matter. It is too bad that the radar doesn't have a scan close option so you can set up a couple to scan for enemy bases and let the othe...

I am playing the game solo on marathon/deathworld with a very small starting position in the desert. Needless to say I am looking for a challenge and I finally got one. However, I am getting attacked frequently from spawner bases that are popping up nearby but that do not show up on radar. When I ex...

Mirrored maps? 0.16 introduced this new world generator so that we don't need mirrored maps or copied starting areas. Mirroring the map is the worst idea I have ever read. Starting resources can be copied over. I personally agree that they should contain oil, but it takes away from the fun of going...

I want to thank the developers for recognizing that PVP really needs equal starting conditions for a balanced game to occur. The duplicate starting entities option that was included in the 0.16.16 unfortunately falls way short. Unless the map generator is not working properly, both teams get a small...

My opinion is PLEASE nerf the bots. I used them a few times and now only play without them. They are game breaking and ruin the Factorio experience IMHO. I agree with everything that was said in both of the belts vs bots news releases. This will become even more important now that PVP is becoming a ...

I can't believe I never noticed this before. However, this is the first time I tried precisely balancing research labs which do not have these variations (except for tech of course) with the machines that make the potions in the first place. Usually I just balance the machines with each other. As lo...

I am running version 0.16.6. My reds in the assembly machine are taking 10 seconds the tooltip still says 5. My greens are taking 8 seconds the tooltip still says 6. I am playing a deathworld map and had the research cost multiplier set at 2. However, neither of those should cause this issue. So has...

I have never found the aliens to be a good challenge in this game and with .16 it seems the density of their lairs at the map spawn has gone way down even on max settings. Even on Deathworld the game seems way too easy. This is why I desire a true opponent. That requires PVP multiplayer become a rea...