Personally, there should be a tick option to set Uranium or/and Oil to be in the starting area. Not in large quantities but e.g. enough to make some initial red circuits for required blue science tech like Advanced Oil Processing. I always run for that one as the very first thing. Heh, you must not...

The "purist" setting seems to completely remove the "cheated" starting area - it's about everything, rather than just oil & uranium !

Thanks, I ran into that issue when trying to duplicate and fix https://mods.factorio.com/mod/autofill
(But I thought that it was an issue with Factorio itself??)
EDIT : Never mind, modpacks...

PacifyerGrey wrote:To sum this up - I would be really greatful if one makes it into the game for the whole map (as an option if you will).

It's right there, as a checkbox !

I feel like there should be some setting that is "place patch in starting area" that is by default off. This also would allow mod-makers when they make new resources to specify if it was a starting resource or not. Generally my mind is that for kids and people who use factorio to chill, s...

It's a pain to have to explore from the moment the biters can stop tanks so no way that feature isn't going to be annoying people who got past the big biters. Use nukes (also gets rid of all this extra uranium that you're complaining about! ;) ) and/or artillery ? sidenote: There is although one th...

PacifyerGrey wrote: The thing is that you will never look at the map while moving your sliders

Why not ?

Please, rethink the "no oil in starting area" part... I enjoy destroying biters and I love trains, so I don’t mind expanding to find the first oil patch. However, it really does suck when you get a really bad roll and get a nearly unplayable game. I have started blind generating death wor...

The generation changes are welcome, but not quite as frustrating issue as the UI itself. We need the dropdown lists gone, they're far too slow for changing a hundred different setting. Replace with something like 5 grouped buttons each. OR additionally add to the top a dropdown which sets all the v...

irbork wrote:I love how in the last picture of the map there is no oil in the starting area and no oil outside as well

There is ? Zoom in the picture !

MY biggest complaint about the current map generator and why it sucks, is the Mess high water settings does to a map. What I want to see is Huge bodys of water around large land masses like you see in the older map generator, not this unusable swamp we get now. After that is fixed I feel like the c...

It is good to see the map generator worked on. However, I'm not convinced that having absolutely no oil in the starting area is going to be a good idea, given how early in your research chain oil will be needed (basically, as soon as blue research becomes a must). Players unhappy with this will gra...

Rinin wrote:What about starting areas for multiplayer? It seems it'll be even harder to generate balanced start for 2 players.

Why wouldn't it scale to N starting areas for N players ?? (If those are not teamed up of course...)

Concerning the spawning of trees... I can disable my life long enemies. However, you can't play the game this way : you can't power your first lab ! If only we had a pole or something to start with when there is no tree nearby :/ Yeah, it's an issue with Alien Biomes too... I have an easy fix : sta...

Much more predictable starting area resources that don't overlap each-other and are not covered by water. Maybe I haven't understood it properly, but from the screenshots it seems like this goal hasn't been achieved ? It seems from the screenshots that while you're guaranteed to have all of the res...

I have to say, I have ONE major downside to the current decision. Specifically that of no oil in the starting area. It doesn't seem like a decision, rather fixing a bug, since oil (and uranium) were never intended to be in the starting area in the first place ? I think that should be an option to e...

Ok, thanks for a quick answer !

Hello, and thanks for this great mod !

I'm a bit worried about these options, ON by default :
Are they going to cause problems if I don't have NE ?

Hmm, depends just *how* inaccurate? There's a cost balance there... (Especially with the shells!) Potential for range research decreasing accuracy, and a specific accuracy-increasing research?

Wackerstamfer wrote:How about make the make the belt immunity part of the exosceleton. When you've reached that tech the belt speed bonus is not that relevant anymore.

Really?
Red (or maybe even blue) belt vs (partially!) solar-powered exoskeleton?