You can code up as many threads as you want. As long as they have causal dependencies they can't run independently. Parallel coding is so insanely difficult because it's ultimately up to the coder to design an engine where threads aren't waiting on each other for instructions or can reasonably funct...

I think this is more the fault of there not being a "dock wall" type of decal. Normally when pavement reaches a watery edge like the ocean, a small wall is constructed so the pavement is stable. You see this sort of thing happen all the time in ye olde docking districts, where restaurants ...

Can you please describe, what happens, when the train leaves the end of the rails. Can you bring it back somehow? Much more details. 1) Excess speed causes collision damage directly to the end rail. Consider this the safety block. 2) When the safety block is destroyed, the train's reserve momentum ...

One major issue with 'early' roboports is that robots can discharge faster than they can recharge on your suit. This is because bots still lose energy at the normal rate- I.E. losing energy over time and distance. So if you want a real QoL improvement: Have recharging bots "latch" to the p...

It's going to be a problem when dozens of bots run to your roboport to recharge. Roboports don't have a particularly slow recharge. The issue is that they take a LOT of suit energy to function. A few active modules can easily overwhelm your pocket fusion and batteries. Charging robots still consume ...

I think it would be most effective to have some type of visual indicator on the accumulator itself. Just like how liquid pipes and tanks show their storage, accumulators should show their energy in a similar manner.

Steam power is already super intelligent. Boilers will only bring water up to 100 temperature, and steam engines will only use as much hot water as it needs. You CAN store excess hot water in storage tanks, but it's not very useful for many reasons: 1) Pumping water is EASY. You can always have as m...

Instead, here is a summary; DLC= Bad. This is AAA game idiocy. If I want to give the devs more money, I can donate or gift the game to a friend. For a space station layer to be satisfying in ANY way, it means thinking up new mechanics, new objectives, and a whole new system for interacting between ...

That could get very messy, very quickly. The personal roboport should remain an independent network. If your main network needs more charging bays, then just like place more roboports yo.

There's nothing "simple" about creating a completely new game layer with its own set of rules.

This is expansion pack tier.

I think everyone had that moment where they loaded up with engine ingredients but couldn't figure out what was going on. Unfortunately the game isn't terribly good at pointing this out. Engines and anything with a liquid ingredient MUST be made in higher level assemblers. They can not be produced by...

You can start popping accumulators as soon as you research them, because they always will have some use (in worst case as a buffer against your mistakes) That's not really true. Accumulators take batteries, which take lots of processed gas, which means you need oil cracking. There's no way to get a...

Assemblers will automatically shut down when their output is clogged. This behavior only happens when inserters are involved- they will refuse to load in excess resources until the previous product is ejected. I think the "issue" is that furnaces don't have this behavior. Inserters will co...

Efficiency modules in general are almost cheaty in that they reduce pollution. The biter evolution curve depends on pollution to work, so reducing your pollution output will short circuit that mechanic and let you race to the end of the tech tree. Efficiency boosted electric furnaces save the most e...

There should at least be SOME effect when a broken tank spills. Watching 2500 oil go POOF is pretty lame.

Inserters won't feed an assembler when the finished good is overstocked, AND the assembler has a stalled output inserter. Furnaces don't have this behavior for some reason. If the output can't be removed, inserters will keep feeding the smelter until the output stack is full. Under most circumstance...

Hunger as a mechanic where you build up a massive industry, but are the only living thing that needs food? It doesn't really work well. Just like how oxygen survival doesn't work well. All it does is set up a death clock until the player can rush the necessary survival tech. After reaching that leve...

The most important attribute of a suit module is the value it gives per tile of space. Fusion reactors blow solar panels away by being 5 times stronger than a 4x4 grid of solar, plus they work at night so it's more like 8x. Fusion power can also beat out a 4x4 grid of MK2 batteries in about a minute...

Once robots are placed inside a roboport with energy, they're active. You assign them functions by using blueprints and logistic chests. Construction bots work with blueprints, the deconstruction planner, and repair packs. They function primarily with yellow chests to grab construction goods and dis...

A relatively simple suggestion to make power management a little bit deeper. That's not simple at all! Simple is just giving steam plants a few hundred kJ of accumulator capacity. Like a second's worth. Consider it some kind of spare inertia in the motor. Accumulators explicitly exist to handle fre...