You can already place unlimited ghosts by making a blueprint of a single item. It's a bit cumbersome for the inventory because you don't have bulk blueprint storage, but it'll work. The best solution I have for this is to use the inventory filters. If the toolbar item you're using runs out, then the...

By the time that refilling empty burners becomes a chore, this is the sort of problem that logistics bots could deal with. Fly in, drop one unit of fuel when empty.

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Wipe everything out including all your mods, and start from scratch.

As fun as emulating a screen mesh made entirely out of 1 ohm resistors would be, there's no gameplay value to it. There are far better ways to make energy management stronger or more difficult.

Such as giving players a battery threshold to turn steam engines off.

Or including cloudy days.

At these scales energy loss doesn't mean much. The distances are just not that great, and it's no challenge to pump a high enough voltage to keep losses at a minimum. Besides, it's simple enough to assume that ANY such losses are absorbed into a machine's running cost. In the best case, you can assu...

The trying part was about how your setup deals with intermittent demands, not continuous usage. It doesn't matter. You run enough cold water pumps for your boilers at all times. There is no penalty for not using enough water, and there is no reason to do it any other way. Once again. The only water...

You can get FAR better results by setting up your conveyors correctly. When the plates are leaving your smelters, that's where you place all the splitters to set your personal priorities. There are threads that show ways to equally distribute 8 lines, 16 lines, or even get break one line into 3 equa...

I think the last player logistic upgrade lets you see the contents of the whole system.

Player logistic slots are a player upgrade that let you request stuff directly from the logistics system. Logistic bots will deliver the goods.

There's no reason you CAN'T store cold water. It's just that you gain absolutely nothing by doing so and only add another way for things to screw up. Connect your steam power directly to the lake (10 engines, 14 boilers, 1 pump), and only store boiling water if you want a surplus of engines for emer...

I think it's be preferable for such a train to drive very slowly, though

You mean a vehicle, with a roboport, on a conveyor? That would take care of the slow patrolling repair system. The only downside is you can't cross it with a railroad track.

Disposable rockets would be suitable for the job of a magic transport. If the dev is planning a space layer, then it would make good interaction between the layers. Fly the resources up to space, and drop them down wherever. It would service both the transport of goods and act as a way to "tele...

First tier belts consuming energy would be a disaster. Players need those belts to get things rolling. By the time you get express belts, energy is just there. It's no big deal. If belts were powered, the power should probably link up through the entire length of belt. Covering every single tile wit...

I thought about that, having a train car in each train dedicated for supplying random items to outposts. It doesn't even need to be a full train car. What does an outpost need? Repair packs, new turrets, new walls, and maybe new construction/logistic drones? Two slots for packs and 1 slot for the r...

Pollution I think some of the issues with biters comes from the "dynamic difficulty" of pollution. In the first third of the game you can cut your pollution in half with solar, and cut it again by 50% or more with efficiency modules. That kills the difficulty. Some of the difficulty aspec...

Running out of repair packs is not an emergency, it will keep happening over and over again. You need a continues supply of them.

If you KNOW that repair packs will run out and require a regular supply, why not deliver them with your regular train shipment? They're kind of made for that.

If they automatically park or drive themselves back, that would be great. But they don't. It would take 3 things to help automate this: 1) A train cargo flatbed that can haul 1-2 vehicles. 2) A Heavy cargo arm that can haul vehicles to-from these flatbeds 3) A conveyor belt that can slide cars arou...

So a long range transport that hands small goods to resupply a base? That sounds exactly like something for an emergency transport! If an outpost runs out of repair packs or something just pay the tax and have an emergency supply system handle it. A permanent flying transport is more for delivering ...

If the player also starts with a single mk 1 crafting machine, how many manual crafts would it be?

Gas could potentially be used to create many nasty kinds of bombs

That's why natural gas tankers work way offshore and pump their goods to land. No one's dumb enough to run them up a narrow river and risk a catastrophe. Well. Except this one local place I know.

I think you got it wrong. He suggests an ingame blueprint manager so the blueprints will not fly wildly in your inventory and take up space. A "book" that lets you store many blueprints is good. A "computer" that lets you save, load, and share any of your blueprints is WAY bette...