So I've just started a new factory, and I have used your blueprints as a jumping off point for my design. This should be interesting, as up until now I have always used a grid like structure to build my layouts. Not sure how fast this factory will work, but we will see.

I've never made a mod, so I'm not sure if it is possible, but can you read the file info from the most recent autosave? If you could, there may be a way to at least give you an approximate time from that. Then for some (let's say) engrossed players, you could at least know that the light outside you...

I think my new answer, still in line with my previous one, is "Today".

After reading some posts I've just had some small, but significant, revelations about my layouts. That, and I've just started playing around with LTN, so it looks like it is "fundamental shift" time.

Yeah, just my layout doesn't make it easy to get to the refineries near the middle. Easier to just use a filtered deconstruction planner then place the new ones with bots.

Yeah. I use some mods. I think, "More Personal Roboports" and a bigger power armour one.

How'd you know I grew up on a sheep farm?

Personally, I love this mechanic. It has saved me lots of troubleshooting since being implemented. The only time I found it a bit annoying was when I building oil refining arrays early on. I would place my layout, with the intention of doing Advanced Oil Processing in the future, but having to start...

Just try researching some of the infinite techs. It doesn't take long to need a million of each science pack to get some of the advances. I think this satisfies in principle what you are referring to. On my testing map, that has hundreds of labs running with speed modules supplied by infinite chests...

Bots are free to travel anywhere in the network they belong to. So, if your roboports logistics areas (yellow coverage) are connected, even just the corners touching, bots will travel across to move materials, recharge, or park. If construction bots are part of your personal roboport network, they w...

I saw this game in a friend's steam library. I looked at a couple videos, thought I'll give it a go. Tried the demo and said sure, I'll pay the $25 (or whatever it was at the time) on Friday night. Went to work the following Monday and said to my friend something to the effect of "Damn you, I'v...

I always have some testing maps (cheats on, unlimited supply points, and whatnot) that I use for designing factory blocks. Every once in a while when I am designing I will have a fundamental shift in design philosophy. This usually is what marks my current play through as "finished". Eithe...

I think that the thing that annoys me most about this is that you can't enter in build mode or ghost mode anymore. It's entirely dependant on click vs. shift-click at the time of placement. The argument that it is more inline with placement of other entities is, to me, irrelevant. There is a big dif...

Kicking myself, repeatedly. Positioning... I love this mod, and I used to have the placement problem too. That's why I make a station horizontally, then make a blueprint for a loading station and an unloading station. Then I just rotate to the alignment that I need. Saves with aligning, especially ...

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Sun Mar 24, 2019 10:38 pm

wooow ! very nice !
but I wonder: these building are so huge, there must be some people working behind all these windows : so you not alone anymore on your lonely planet !

What is this? A building for ants? How can people trade if they can't get in the doors?

I really find the new mode quite annoying, and after reading everything, I don't see the reason for the new system. All this does, for established players, is remove some functionality. I'd like to see it back the way it was. If it was confusing or counterintuitive to new players, put in a tutorial ...

Seems like a pain to have all of your stations wired together. If you're on the current experimental [0.17.XX] you can just control the train with a control-click and send it where you want. You don't need to have any active stations, except the one you are waiting to be picked up at (which disables...

Yeah, when I found the player present option I realized that it would be handy. I've also put another station in my transport train's schedule that I place all over the place that are disabled by default, but they enable by use of a gate and wall section wired to the station. It is like a pressure p...

I do something similar with a personal transport train. It has one station on its list, at my main base. When I use it to get to a location, if I want it to stick around until I'm done, I just make the wait condition 5 seconds and "Player is Present". Unless it is a short journey, you shou...

I'm thinking to suggest an additional step. I would like to be able to define the recipe of a building when manually placing a ghost. Of course you can copy/paste an existing building, or even an already placed ghost with recipe. When I get in a design groove, and I am placing all my ghost pieces, i...

Got the game. Definitely different from Factorio, not entirely in bad ways. I've got a gaming laptop (Asus GL-753V), but it isn't a supercomputer. It has no problem running Satisfactory on full graphics. Factorio gets a bit bogged down when I get to later technologies, the way I play. 3d changes the...