The main advantage of an explosive is to multiply that juicy juicy AoE damage against multiple targets. It's hard to take advantage of AoE when the dev is focusing on bigger, meaner aliens.

There is a legitimate need for players and their goods to cross the water. How players gain the option is up to interpretation. Boats are pretty cool because they let you cross MAJOR bodies of water. They also give you more fishing opportunity. But map generation tends to favor connected land over c...

It sounds more like you're looking for a form of 1-way rail block. Trains traveling against this block would incur a pathing penalty, while trains going the way you want continue happily.

I think the best kind of answer is a"player access only" logistic storage chest. Any items deposited in this kind of chest is available only to player requests.

Do regular storage chests do this anyway? I'm not sure if it already exists.

While placing strictly negative effects on pollution is a nice way to pressure the player as they grow, it's not a great idea to have EVERY effect be detrimental. For example pollution might be something that increases the temperature of fresh water, thus improving the efficiency of boilers. Or it m...

It's not really about being game changing. Junk just doesn't add anything worth being called new. Early game doesn't need obstacles like this, and you haven't covered what kind of value it might add in the mid to late game. For example junk might be useful as a wild card resource if it can be proces...

The production line is very involved, it takes a hefty chunk of raw materials, the upgrades aren't so great, and the splash damage is kind of meh.

Rockets could definitely use a good buff. Or maybe the combat shotfun is too good?

You will have far more success by using the train stops as the filters. If a train stop only processes ore, then those trains will only carry ore. Pretty simple.

Turrets and walls can hold up pretty well until logistic drones come into action.

You can use smart inserters to pull contaminents out of the ore stream.

It's very clear you're a strong supporter of nuclear power, Wyrm, but no. Nuclear power is never JUST an electric generator, and it's not going to be. Major plants are barely worth the insane up front cost as is, when other developments are getting cheaper all the time. While there is a legitimate n...

At that point you're basically asking for some kind of internal repair bay. That way the repairs are guaranteed to be done out of harm's way.
On the plus side, an automatic item repairer would fix all those damaged items that fill up inventory space.

With the way the personal roboport is set up, it could be a huge bonus to drones. Let the drones recharge and rearm by attaching to the player, and recall them when they're nearly drained with no action. A reusuable drone will be a lot more useful and give something that can begin to compete with tu...

Everyone's experience is going to dramatically differ because low settings only face you off against a handful of nests at any one time, while max settings will have nightmare blobs of 50+ nests all throwing their doods at ya. What cruises through low settings just isn't going to matter at the night...

I'm not really sure there's much of a economy to make out of factorio, given that everything comes from iron, copper, coal, stone, or oil. If you can produce one kind of item, then you can use those same resources to produce anything else. The only really special resource in the factorio universe ar...

The belt change does change one major thing. You used to be able to run 3 inserters and a terminated belt line on one side of an assembler. The overflow let you have an input inserter, but the empty space kept both belts separate. Now you need a dead space to terminate one belt, which can't have an ...

I have one more questaion, I have factorio on an SSD and i do not want to wear it out, is the save file on the main factorio install? Yeaaaah that's not a thing. Only swap space and window's update can really wear an SSD out. Tiny things like save files won't do that. A combination of firmware and ...

Why not both? There's this whole new concrete thing, now.

Conveyor bridges are kind of meh. There's plenty of land space to work with.

Rail bridges would be nice. A huge river can really put a dent in your rail network, and being able to bridge it would be great.

I think it's more important that pollution plays some kind of beneficial role in Factorio. Right now pollution is a direct difficulty booster. The more you make, the crazier things become. That's all well and good, but there's no legitimate, helpful reason to WANT this. So players that cut down thei...