It's similar to Factorio, in 3D. Satisfactory has a very limited scale. You can't build something truly big from a first person perspective. Also, as I know, map is handmade. The main difference in factory design is absence of inserters, belts are coming directly through assemblers (like in real li...

Good argument is for example possibility to build large production plants automatically. I can put things to provider chests, set up roboports, let bots work and after an hour or two they have built for example complete iron smelting unit with capacity of million plates in hour including railyards,...

I think it's because the spot-noise uses the same seeds for all resources. (seed0 = map seed, seed1 = 100), and doesn't make use of the resource name/order to seed the generation, so all spots will be on the same locations for each resource. Actually, resource_autoplace_settings uses id in some lin...

But most people don't play that way, which is why it shouldn't be that way in Vanilla. Imagine that since earliest versions of the game chests have low capacity (4-6-8, for example). And on the forum someone suggested to increase it 6 times (to current values). Would you support such a proposal? Or...

Hannu wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 22, 2019 1:14 pm

Why you try to prevent others play with style they like because you feel it "wrong"?

Following your logic, let's just enable God-mode in vanilla. It fits perfectly into your arguments. Infinite chest for everyone! Why not?! Just don't use it if you don't want to.

from a gameplay perspective I don't think it matters. As I said, my main point is that "vanilla feels like a mod with huge chests". Nobody actually needs it. The only real use for huge chests is to manually move huge amounts of crafting materials. And that is a wrong behavior. Moving item...

thereaverofdarkness wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 22, 2019 9:02 am

Wow, sounds very cool. Thanks for sharing your experience.

If you were to divide by 4 all the burn values, you'd have to devote 20% of your energy production to produce the energy needed for your factory. Yes, I also noticed this problem. It can be avoided by doubling coal mining speed. But, is it really a problem? Initial technologies are supposed to have...

Tekillaa wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 21, 2019 7:10 pm

Hi, Landfill create a normal floor 100% speed, brick is 130% and concrete 140% so the behaviour is normal to go from 100% to 140%

No-no-no. Why concrete is placed on top of landfill, but replaces bricks?

We were talking about multiple mining outposts, that means late-game (automated satellites, modules mass-production etc). Replacing steel furnaces with electric ones in-place is insanity. They have absolutely different layouts. I replac burner smelter with railroad terminal, placing electric smelter...

Infinity-chest is your friend.

mrvn wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:23 pm

So are boilers really cheaper? One time cost for the tanks vs. constant cost for the extra power.

What do you mean? Boilers do not waste any energy.
And usually belts are long enough to be sufficient buffer. Moreover if you deliver fuel by train.

I tend to switch out of burner power generation pretty early. Only 72MW coal power and even that goes into backup mode as soon as I get solar panels and accumulators. After that I only burn coal in furnaces. The issue is more that you don't need to rely on coal power for long Solar power has it's o...

Yeah, it's a nice channel. Except cases when they get into politics... As I know, idea of a Dyson sphere is older then videogames . :) Actually, any source of power is limited. Sun is just the largest currently available, and the only sufficient for interstellar flights. Read also about ringworlds. ...

It's very hard to make the game balanced both for "normal" (pre-oil) play, "advanced" (post-oil) play, and 10k Sci/min "megabases", t(h)read carefully ! Together we are smart, we can try! Moreover, both cases are unbalanced in the same way. Issue : if coal fuel value w...

I'm using splitters.
But an option to choose... Also choose recipe in furnace!

Tunnels/Bridges will increase rail network throughput greatly. Too greatly. Rail network will become too powerful. Currently it has at least some limits, and also it is an awesome puzzle.

Hello, factorians! I'm thinking about one more balancing nerf, but first I'd like to hear opinions of more experienced players. I didn't practice megabasing a lot, but in common games both coal and oil are used in crafting significantly more then for burning, even with burner-only power production. ...

I'm also not a fan of perfect ratios. In fact I tend to use an excess of power generation relative to fuel anyway. Why: demand spike accommodation. Factory power demand tends to fluctuate, the fuel and water entering the poweplant has to meet the average demand, but the generation wattage has to me...

Okey, let's talk more specific. Recipes, technologies, dependencies. In the reality, sulfur concrete is an alternative branch. By this logic, recipe must be ore+brick+sulfur. But I think linear progression of concrete quality is better from the game perspective. How to insert sulfur concrete into cu...