I am still worried about the cliff explosives delay, but I am reassured to see at least an attempt to fix the more annoying things about cliffs as they are. Will have to wait and see how things turn out. Personally, I would still like an early game, somewhat expensive (and single use), manual use o...

It causes no problems, because if you don't use it then it has no effect. For those that understand it it can be a convenient way to fine tune the workings of the factory. You are allowed to see the system as beyond your mental capacities and pass on using it if it would cause you more problems tha...

A hard priority system follows the orders of the player. A soft priority system is a system which by definition will ignore the players intended behavior. Just set your priorities correctly and dynamically if fixed priorities is not aligned with your intended behavior. So what you're saying, is tha...

Quick question about the priority system. Are they soft priorities, such that X task is given some kind of bonus multiplier to its priority? Or are they hard priorities, such that do all 51s first, then do all 50's next, then do all 49's next, etc.? A hard priority system is very predictable, but I ...

TheKingOfFailure wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:26 pm

Stack inserters move lots (a bulk load) of items, but do not stack items

Bulk inserters do stack items when moving them in bulk.

Underrated post. Stack inserters move bulk, and bulk inserters move stacks. Why do game devs do this?

Ore has random icons and it looks cool. Why can't other items have random icons too? Most obvious one imo is the gear wheel. Rotate it a bit and it's a new icon. Plates might have various cookie cutter shapes (festive shapes?), circuits can have different wiring, science could have different beakers...

The train pathing system uses a cost system where trains try to find the fastest route. It's fairly robust on its own but obviously can not predict the future. Train junctions suffer diminishing returns as lanes get added. Consider a train crossing 8 lanes of traffic, it's effectively blocking 8 lan...

Amazing FFF that sets expectations and then blows them out of the water. The factorio devs haven't run out of steam yet. I wonder if there will be light fixtures that can go on elevated rails. No particular reason, but it'd probably look cool. The big player issue will be trying to see underneath a ...

The steam engine ramping down is a good thing for difficulty. Why? Because boilers make pollution, and pollution brings in biters. If the player builds too many boilers, they'd drown in biter spam regardless of their actual factory production. Skilled players would see very little gameplay change, b...

Why not fix the land with some landfill? Bulldoze the waste, replace with good land. It'd be a simple and handy mod.

Factory production in Factorio is incredibly fast paced. Most objects produce in seconds, and fractions of a second with beacons. Inventory space is large and trains have monolithic item transporting rates. Frankly, if you want more factory or train networks, it makes sense to start nerfing things. ...

Even if a knockback effect proves troublesome, a stun effect would be very useful for mitigating melee damage.

Of course, neither approach is very useful for surviving an acid bath.

It would probably make more sense to have the connectors between the power plants be altered in some way. Visual clues are the best clues, and a clue directly between adjacent plants is a pretty good clue.

I think roboport priorities can be best resolved by letting players set their desired roboport radius. A tighter radius definitely launches bots on shorter errands and they work more efficiently as a result. Some quick modding with -5 radius on the mk.1 and mk.2 definitely gets the bots working more...

Currently there are two major types of remotes in the game, one to launch artillery and one to control the spidertron. Currently these remotes must be used manually, but what if the remotes themselves could be automated? Enter the booper, a device made strictly for pushing buttons on the remote. It'...

Personal roboports only make green zones, they don't make orange zones.

I love it.
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AAAAAAHHHHH KILL IT WITH FIRE AAAAAAHHHHHHH

Ooh, a reason to rush out those efficiency modules. Playing a pure green style is a challenge all its own, but it's not impossible to avoid dealing serious damage to the environment. At least, it is quite doable until you start cranking up the marathon death world settings.

I'm a bit surprised that so much of the land mine is left behind considering that, you know, they're kinda supposed to explode.

ske wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 04, 2020 10:53 am

Why does the "plug" in the power switch have two prongs while there is only one wire on the poles?

It's a proper 3 wire system if the red and green signal wires are used. But obviously gameplay trumps all.