I'll admit I pirate games to demo them. But I'd never pirate a game that has a demo, unless of course the demo is massively unrepresentative of the 'real' game. Which I don't believe is the case with Factorio. I downloaded the demo, played it. Realised how good it was and bought the full version. I ...

Doubt it would be an error. Could have been bots/guests. (As in a botnet 'attack') iirc phpbb counts guests in that tally as well. Which bots would have ended up being.

He was more talking about utilizing your creations as offence and defence (power armour, vehicles, and turrets) instead of player growing stronger somehow himself. Which I personally agree with - actual player needs to stay weak and fragile, but grow strong due to his machines and creations. That w...

Hi to all. Scanned briefly (tl:dr) previous posters and want to express my "very important" :D opinion. When i first Dlled this game (yea pirated copy ofc) it... it was charming. 0.7.5 FActorio had graphic, idea and gameflow EXACTLY matching my taste. I see the game as little sandbox heav...

id like bigger ones with more charging slots as a tiered thing also, now im avoiding your issue by simply placing more roboports beside each other, 3 are capable of fully supporting approx 200 robots without losing any. i have that setup for my unloading station for my trains, they run almost const...

I think then there is too much difference between the 'experimenting phase' when you don't have a strategy and everything you do waste tons of resource, and the 'expert phase' where you lolstomp everything. anyway, I like stomping everything when I have unlocked it all - makes sense and it is rewar...

The main issue I see with this is that while the 'public' should have the ability to interface with the development team on ideas and how things can play out, you don't want to end up in a situation where you give the public the impression that if they 'upvote' something enough that it is guaranteed...

I don't think it is 'mining' per say that needs fixing. I think it is layers completely. I was actually just about to suggest something similar to this myself. I had logistics bots going back and forth between a chest filling it up and I spent a good minute trying, and failing to click on the chest ...

suppose the main thing is that you should never rely 100% on the bots. The goal was the exact opposite :) If you see situation that behaves wrong, it would be appreciated if you saved the game and posted it in the bug reports section. Ack sorry, I didn't actually see this post. I will keep an eye o...

I really think it depends on the person and their strategy. However as Nova said. With proper tech researched they pretty much become fodder.

The thing is... slots aren't the problem. The charging is. Strictly the charging. Everything else is fine. That's the problem. There are too many slots for the charging capacity. You can probably fill maybe 2 full slots before you start risking losing your bots if they are working consistently. Basi...

That turret needs a medal or something lol. It's like Rambo-turret

tbh I love the idea that you are forced to move outward. But I often find myself focusing more heavily on advancing my factory than I do my military. Because honestly I just don't find the current combat fun in the least. If I had something I could use to actually tackle biter bases I would probably...

I can't really help it, but the thing I am looking forward to the most has to be multiplayer. Or at least I persistence (I hope). Where I can fire the game up on a server. Work on my factory. And have it work while I'm busy/logged off provided I protect it enough ;) I already find myself alt-tabbing...

Hello, we didn't have the time to play the whole game with the roboports so far (just some testing), so I have no idea about the balancing. There are lot of things that could be altered to make it easier: waiting robot would approach the charging spot before the charging of the previous finishes, s...

In the end of day, I think what is important is that we have a variety of options. More options means more players will find their own way of handling the enemy. Put it this way, you have many ways to make a factory, but very few to take down a base. The tank is on the list. Will it be able to acce...

The new Roboport is an awesome addition, however with the introduction of the recharging mechanic and the fact that there are only four slots to recharge there seems to be a significant limit on the amount of logistics robots you can have active at a time. Far far below the Roboports actual capacity...

Awesome to hear. I hope your vacation goes awesomely and that you enjoy yourself!

Factorio mostly is a tower defence in my imagination with an overly complex resource system. I'd just like to see more ways to keep the creepers at bay like zapping turrets to slow them and rocket turrets for crowd control. And a way to prioritize targets. And this imo is part of the problem. It sh...

As much as other planets would be a neat concept. I would really like to see multiplayer before they go off into directions like that personally. I know a lot of people are 100% A-okay with the game being a single player sandbox, but I for one would love to be able to host my own server and have oth...