Wow, I find this very exciting. As a long-time player, you really notice these quirky downsides and they have sometimes been very annoying, so this is really quite a big improvement! Even better to hear that the code is still super performant after these additional features!

Amazing news. I do wonder if the sprite for the engine isn't a little bit too glowy. At any rate, I have full faith you will deliver a great expansion. It was especially fitting to have Earendel comment on the situation.

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Fri Jul 14, 2023 4:10 am

i think multiple overhaul mods have been released since then, by smaller teams, with smaller budgets.

And with way, way less polish and balance and optimization.

I have wanted to do this several times!

To launch it detached from the powershell, you have to type For the normal windows command line, the syntax is likely a bit different.

I've also had modpacks ruin the modules used inside the blueprints library. I think Nullius was one such pack, but it's been over a year since. (Fortunately, I had backups and have tried stepping up my backup game.)

The tech level shown in the tech tree increments every time you queue up research , not when it finishes researching. The reason is so that you can queue up multiple levels at once and see their relevant info as you do. Is that what's happening here? I have gotten slightly confused by this several t...

Thanks for yet another update! Fixed deconstruction markers being visible to forces which did not order the deconstruction. I'm guessing it just hides the marker, rather than changes functionality? This difference is relevant in that I know there's a behavior where walls become disconnected if marke...

A great way is also to buy merch, although it's mostly shirts, at least it's an alternative to buying things to wear at home and you can support the game at the same time.

This did indeed use to exist. It was removed, I surmise, because it would really get annoying with a big base, and it's strictly speaking not so important. You'll react latest when the buildings actually get destroyed, and your base should be built such that a single destruction event isn't catastro...

You say registered on the forum but do you also mean logged in inside the game itself? It does have a login system, for multiplayer purposes. It's in the settings.

In the design pictured, I suspect the heat pipes are simply too long, as they have fairly limited throughput, which you start noticing when you stack up reactor neighbor bonuses. For example, in a 2-wide arbitratily tall (any number N units tall) column of reactors, heat pipes cannot carry heat far ...

Could the train be trying to turn around? I don't know how two-directional trains are allowed to turn, can they drive into a station and reverse out as a way of "turning"? The pathfinder will occasionally do crazy things like route trains through other stations, very rarely (either due to ...

Tank is the only thing I can drive into combat in high latency multiplayer games. Car is so massively dependent on dodging, which just isn't feasible with high latency, and additionally, it's made far worse if there is any amount of latency fluctuation which is likely in high ping situations.

If they keep the price constant, as they have, then it's only completely logical that it should account for inflation too. The game's been around for a very long time, this kind of small increase is definitely due. N.B.: They did increase the price a few times due to the game becoming complete but t...

I remember my 2nd run ever was a desert deathworld and it wasn't particularly difficult... but I wonder if that was down to different biter pathing in some ways? (They used to derp if large masses of biters aggroed at once due to collision detection making them get stuck on each other.) I do remembe...

I think this would be particularly nice because builder spidertrons aren't very useful, or at least not automatable, if you don't set auto trash for every single item type manually , which takes like 30 minutes to do every time (and copy-pasting it to other spidertrons is kinda clunky too). The issu...

I just want to add that if you're even remotely worrying about losing your blueprint library, then now is a perfect time to back it up. If you have a big library, you don't wanna lose it, and sometimes even just loading a mod can break your library (off the top of my head, I know the overhaul mod Nu...

As it stands, there is no way to populate roboports using only spidertrons. The train solution does require laying rails to literally everywhere you want to do it which isn't ideal, but it's not awful either. You'll end up having rails to go to new places where you build which is... nothing but a go...

I would like to add that I've had this issue again myself for the last month or two, out of seemingly nowhere. Not deleted any local saves, if anything, there are now more. As per previously, my actual Factorio cloud storage on Steam is practically non-existent (turned off and its contents cleared a...