This is going to be very hard, as what the biters cost you depends on a lot of factors ! I guess it's still not extremely hard to calculate the cost spent on killing them (rather than the cost of what they have destroyed, or the cost of distracting you), but you will still have to do big simplificat...

You don't need blue science for bots at all ! But then, at the same time, bots, while being only "green science", require more complex "petrochemicals" than blue science : Blue science (and Roboport) only requires plastic for red circuits. Bots *themselves* not only require plast...

Also, after downloading a mod, ModMyFactory crashes with the following error : System.InvalidOperationException: The server sent an invalid mod file. at ModMyFactory.Web.ModWebsite.<DownloadReleaseAsync>d__7.MoveNext() --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at S...

Didn't change anything, as I said.
(Which is weird, might Windows 10 have some additional security measures?)

Do you think that it might cause our main issue?

You could just use a fast-start mod; that's what I do now. Aside from that, you can build construction bots using only a very basic refinery set-up. Carry a bunch of engine units over to a simple electric engine assembler. Pip petroleum out for a small plastic & battery facility. Important poin...

For some reason it now uses the appdata factorio directory when locating mods. Im not entirely sure how the manager functions but despite launching different versions, it simply only ever looks in the root factorio folder for mod files. What you are describing sounds like somehow the folder junctio...

Construction robots must be earlier, but logistic robots must be later for balance. Using without roboports, just equipment roboport for first power armor. So invert roboport and personal roboport in the tech tree? Have you tested how usable personal roboport is without batteries ? Yes, the robopor...

darkfrei wrote:Construction robots must be earlier, but logistic robots must be later for balance.
Using without roboports, just equipment roboport for first power armor.

So invert roboport and personal roboport in the tech tree?
Have you tested how usable personal roboport is without batteries ?

Are you kidding !?
Your starting ore patches are not infinite, and biters won't stand around while you are looking at research !

I would *always* pause the game when looking at research.
I'm even using a modified Vlad's Auto Time to set the game speed to 10% when not doing anything...

If we have diagonal rails why not to add diagonal belt and pipes in factorio And it wll be awesome if functional of "bob adjustable inserters" will be added in base game, it'll be very very convenient Because rails are 2 tiles wide? To be fair, Bob's adjustable inserters are a bit too con...

Well, in my experience, that's already what happens : Player takes the train => Biters chase the train and stop on the track => Next train without player kills a biter on the tracks => Biters chase the train and stop on the track => Repeat ad infinitum, no player in train needed (Shouldn't the biter...

Well, mp3's are a bonus, but not as necessary as a "paste and forget" system: there are a lot of programs to convert between the various audio formats... I think even Windows Media Player can do that out of the box? I actually had older games music in mind, which is generally in .wav forma...

Because you don't have to launch a separate program? I should have made clearer that this was meant as an "either", rather than an "or". But it kind of can, if they are organized in sub-folders, for instance music/battle/ and music/peaceful/ (or just music/) ... (This is not as e...

Ease of use? Paste in the folder and forget?
Also, matters when the music is tied to in-game events - like I think it actually is in Factorio?

there were only 21 refunds in the last 3 months 21 morons. But really, 7 returns a month is pretty darn low. That's awesome. Rather meaningless without a sales/month number... (though we can extrapolate as "very low", considering the 1.5M copies sold since first "release") There...

Hi, enjoying your mod, but there might be a bug in the default settings : Shouldn't these two be inverted?

I don't seem to have any alien artifacts in my game, how can I enable them during the game?
Thanks.