That said, I would have liked more explanation on the new tutorials and what exactly made them so problematic relative to the old ones; the FFF is rather vague and rather brief, only a single sentence mentioning "breaking progression". There were more problems, but these are those that ca...

Not many games remain in continuous refinement for years, actually getting steadily better. I am very pleased that Factorio is one of the exceptions. I am also glad that you are open to the idea of abandoning new ideas if they do not work out - too many designers refuse to do this. That said, I woul...

Why do the "blood" particles look like solid "mounds" of material?

I am very happy you have implemented moving trees, but I am not all that enamored with the effect you have chosen. In particular, there seems to be a very high-frequency (in screen space, not time) layer to the distortion that results in the movement and the edges of the sprites resembling a "f...

I am so happy to see that this has finally been implemented! The static-ness of water and a few other world objects has been one of my longest-standing complaints, purely because of how unnatural and fake it looked.

I am ambivalent on the style change overall, but I do like the map changes, which I generally like because of the improved contrast, and the more tree variety. I also like the idea of a more dynamic night, though I do hope the LUT is moddable there, so you can change how the night looks if you pleas...

Please tell me that the "exact amounts" of fluid contents are still shown for entities, not just a fill bar. So for example I can see that a storage tank has exactly 227.4 units of liquid, or that a refinery has 0.3 units of oil in the input. Storage tanks, pipes and a few other entities ...

Something I want to say about the entity tooltips, specifically for fluid, in regards to this image: https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/img/blog/fff-318-steam-ratios-entity.png Please tell me that the "exact amounts" of fluid contents are still shown for entities, not just a fill bar. So for ...

Rseding91 wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 04, 2019 3:19 am

Thanks for the report. It's now fixed for the next version of 0.17.

As in nil is now a valid assign?

That is, trying to assign <LuaEntity>.last_user = nil throws an error, but LuaEntities returned via the scripting engine - such as find_entities_filtered - can have a nil value for that field. This is bad on two fronts: The first is that this makes no sense; if the game can give LuaEntities with nil...

Some of these are nice ideas, in particular the "Robots should take up space and time" and "Mining furnaces and assembling machines should return the ingredients for the in-progress recipe". I also quite like the idea of smarter and (situationally) more aggressive biters. The &qu...

Just so you know, my ideas, as well as some suggested by other people, have made it into a mod, TurmOil: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/TurmOil

From my reddit post: I do not think it is a good idea to put too much focus on the combat side of things; it reminds me of the original trailer, one which actively put me off the game back in 2015. Indeed, people were offering to buy it for me, and I was turning them down because of what the trailer...

You mod changes too much for me at the moment (although I'm using some others of yours), but I decided to implement burnable sulfur too and I wanted to note I am also reducing the acceleration to 0.5 or maybe lower. I will do that too. By the way, the mod has a setting to change what changes it mak...

Adamo wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 02, 2019 8:00 am

Reika wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 02, 2019 7:58 am

I could not find a direct source, so I did some f#$%ery with electronegativity ratios.

Nice one.

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I went with 600kJ (relative to coal's 4MJ). I think that's a good guess, if it was a guess. If it's from a source, please share, because I couldn't find one. I'm glad you went very low with it. I think that's right. That's less than wood, right? I could not find a direct source, so I did some f#$%e...

Adamo wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 02, 2019 7:49 am

This means we would need to multiply 30% of the pollution by 40 to get the new pollution from just the sulfur, or, 12 times.

Done.

Adamo wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 02, 2019 7:49 am

What I'm not sure about is what the fuel_value should be.

I went with 600kJ (relative to coal's 4MJ).

Well, considering NauvisDay adds a 96x multiplier to refinery pollution (and more if you go to Bob Mk2/3/4)... :P I wrote up a quick math for this, since you have tested numbers that go plenty high -- but remind me again what your exact plan is? Just burning sulfur directly? Yes, primarily as a way...

I'd stick to 8 and go higher only after testing, but going higher wouldn't be UNREALISTIC, just worried about game mechanics when I start approaching multiplying anything by 10 or more. Well, considering NauvisDay adds a 96x multiplier to refinery pollution (and more if you go to Bob Mk2/3/4)... :P...

I agree with that number at least until you know for sure it isn't already too high. You agree with eight or 24? Sulfur concrete doesn't need cement! Or, rather, it turns out, when mixed with stone, sulfur has cement-like properties. It's mixed with stone and sand aggregate directly. It cures quick...