I don't see the point when we have exoskeletons. I'd rather invest in running faster everywhere.

I agree.

I also don't know why the wires cannot cross pole types.

...the trains themselves could use some refinements first, like faster track-laying. Until then, you can place track in a straight line very quickly by having track selected, being in the train engine, and holding the place button down just in front of it while moving at full speed. I.e.: you are l...

I find myself needing to be able to control what liquid is being cracked. For instance you don't what to use up all your liquid oil when cracking it to petroleum gas. If we had a controllable valve, I could connect it to a circuit network and set it to only open per a condition. We should also be ab...

Thanks, guys. I must of missed it in one of the update notes as I took a break from the game for two months.

So can we do this? Old shift method has been replace with the ghost building.

Has this been forgotten?

Gets really frustrating having many bots on screen.

I thought of something that will save you having to create another asset. Simply allow the car to accept armour modules. It can have grid-like board just like the player's armour and you can put armour modules like battery and shield. This will allow us to augment the car to be as defensive as the t...

I don't see how weaker breaking trains would even have issues with signals, they just have to break sooner.

That is what I'd find logical, but my assertion still stands. You have it set to request 10 construction bots. Everything is good until those bots go out for repairs, and it requests another 10. This continues until there are too many bots on the network and they start crashing and burning. I suppo...

I rambled a bit. In the end of the day, I want to be able to order bots which may also be docked. Example: I order 10 construction bots using my player logistic slots. The only 10 construction bots are currently docked in a port. They fly themselves to me and put themselves as items in my inventory.

Problem: There is no way to directly order your bots around. I wished for this when I needed to clear away forest some distance from my main robot network. I wanted to take about 20 construction bots with me and one roboport. But to find the construction bots that are docked is a pain, you have to l...

Well, guys, after taking a break from Factorio for a month and coming back for the oil update, I can say that no, we don't need faster belts. I have actually been surviving with just fast (red) belts for now. All it took was some more experience and smarter arrangement of production. So I change my ...

tralala wrote:Belts are awesome.
Logistic robots should be banned!

Oh boy, you should have been around when we didn't have a roboport and bots didn't use energy.

sparr wrote:You don't seem to have connected all of the steam engines together here.

Look at his first picture in the OP. He has pipes at the ends.

Here's a nice free graph editor with automatic layout algorithms for you.

http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html

Alien bases can be eradicated easily by spamming distractor bots at them. But to lessen the time needed between base hunting sessions, use productivity module 3 in your science pack 4 assemblers.

Once you've researched everything, try to see how fast you can fill a steel chest with speed module 3

You know, it's funny, much of the map that you see when you zoom out the furthest in the map view goes unused unless you set ore generation to be sparse; you just don't need to go _that_ far to finish freeplay. With your ideas, I'm imagining these alien bases that are extremely far from your startin...

kovarex wrote:Shame on us, because it is wrong indeed and we didn't test this scenario.
We will try to do something with that (probably just tighten the collision box of train).

Will it fix this?

The way belts work gives the world some physical quality, it feels like the items are being transported by the belt and not just following a line. I had much the same grievances when I started. In retrospect, I didn't know what I was doing most of the time. My suggestion to you is that you look at y...