This won't be a big problem in 0.13, you can use the power switch reading from an accumulator to automatically trigger steam engines to turn online when the storage capacity drops below some number This is basically what players are looking for. Some just don't want to run steam engines at all unti...

IMO accumulatorss should self-discharge quickly (faster then day-night) so you use them to cover energy spikes and use other solutions to power your base (or store power) through dark hours. Night hours are very short. Like 4-6 hours of pure night. An accumulator needs to drain completely in about ...

FYI lossy power transmission will only BUFF solar panels. Why?

You can build solar panels anywhere, even next to the energy consumers.

You can not build steam power anywhere, especially on a "spawn zone water only" map.

Stop buffing solar panels guys.

There's a neat trick that will reduce your pollution by 100% and it only hurts your oil production by 0.1

Just remove the pumpjack.

What if going above the "default" yellow speed used power? Now belts always have a minimum speed, but to get the higher tier stuff rolling you need a power network that is already pretty well established at that tier. The only individual piece that probably should use power is the splitter...

this can cause less experienced players to paint themselves into a corner, e.g. by too aggressively attacking Nests. So instead of being backed into a corner one way, the player can do it 3 different ways? Keep in mind that 3 split evolution factors have to grow 3 times as quickly to match the curr...

What's the problem here? Just make a system where you remove the coal belt of the old setup and pack in electric furnaces for the new setup. Or build a different network.

Electric furnaces are NOT mandatory. You can run a plenty successful factory on steel.

building crap around spawners so they can't spawn anything.

That's truly fiendish. You win Factorio.

- The fact that 2 side to side radars double their range

Wait really? Twice the radius, as in 4 times the area?

Literally the only reason accumulators exist is to allow laser turrets to function. Players using accumulators to run infinite overnight energy is an unavoidable side effect of this. Give lasers their own ammo, and the energy spike goes away. The player no longer needs accumulators to partake in bas...

I think it'd be a good idea to take advantage of those scenario packs to teach more advanced concepts. Stuff like belts, bots and trains can be tricky to start out, but they can get into crazy levels of complexity. If a player had a playpen map where things like train stops, intersections and line b...

It's more upsetting that no further components go into purple science.

The problem with water as a limited resource, is that water consumption is completely unreasonable to make this work. Steam power does not annihilate hundreds of gallons of water every second. It recycles water through hot and cold cycles before using it over and over again. In factorio you can use ...

You can kind of do this with electric pumps. It only allows fluid one way and will eventually purge the pipe.

Accumulator charge, discharge, and retention should be changed to account for this, and make them less godly. Values should be modable too really. A typical NiMH battery takes 150% electricity to charge, discharge can be anywhere from a 20% to 100% efficiency, depending on current draw. They also h...

A "one size fits all solution" that eliminates a large amount of gameplay, like accumulators and solar in combination, is a bad solution. Accumulators + Solar is the easy solution to an energy problem that has many potential solutions. There is no point using those other options while acc...

Well, if you search for "Waste" you'll find some suggestions about an item-type, that cannot be destroyed in that way, but does a nice item-explosion instead. Where there's a will, there's a player blowing up chests on an island to either block spawning, or to CTD the game as it spends th...

The waste would be indisposable because there is no use for it.

This is not possible. The waste could be thrown into a chest, and simply destroyed out of existence. Factorio doesn't have any kind of real mechanic for toxic fallout, unless you consider standard pollution to be that kind of thing.

It is like playing a shooter and then every 5 minutes someone comes in and takes your mouse and keyboard or controller away for 2 tedious minutes... :roll: Nothing is stopping a player from running steam power to survive the night. The player can still expand his factory or go fighting or anything ...

Sounds highly exploitable. At that point, why not just draw energy directly from your inventory?