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.

I clicked the rocket, rocket go fooosh.

A troll with grenades or a troll with a nuke can do much more damage than purging your pipe network. It might be okay to give the purge effect some inertia. If it drained the system at a finite (but fast) rate, that gives the player some reaction time to go "oh shi" while still letting pla...

It's amazing how difficult the fluid mixing system has been to deal with. It probably would have been easier to have a warning icon whenever fluids crash in the pipe network. That and the new pipe flushing system could have taken care of most things.

I don't understand the perils of being color blind, but some of the solutions to color blindness fall under the same category as good game design. Palette swaps are generally gross, make sure that in game icons are visually distinct in some way. For example, the 3 types of modules are identical, but...

What this means, is to produce all 100 percentage points of the rocket, you only need to supply the silo with 5/7 of the materials, or about 72%. That 40% Productivity translates to a roughly 28% materials savings in terms of parts per rocket. But it's 28% material savings for each step of the way....

Ah, but if you VM a linux machine to host a server, then you can get the fork command in windows for the async save. #bigthink

This These values also includes some optimizations implemented by Rseding.

You're going to kill the proofreading team at this rate!

Eiermann wrote: ↑

Sat May 16, 2020 5:24 pm

I would separate the resources in Level 05 because it would just confuse new players when you end up with a mixed up belt and everything gets stuck.

But that's also a good challenge for players to contend with. Better to teach it early rather than never.

Over 5 years of optimizing the game to the limits, and it all gets spent on graphical overhauls in a month. Never change, game industry!

I tease, I tease. It's nice to see more shiny things in Factorio. Can't go wrong with shinies.

billbo99 wrote: ↑

Fri May 15, 2020 1:47 pm

I wonder how hard it would be to have the construction drones throw grenades to clear trees

I wonder how fun it would be to have drones throw grenades at enemy player bases to deconstruct them.

I do think it would be more interesting if Any% category didn't allow custom seed, while Default Settings category did The any% category tends to be more open and unrestricted. It may as well be called the "anything goes" category because the skips get SO crazy that their subcategories de...

Sometimes people are just wrong on the internet. Don't worry, it happens. :lol: Speedrunning is a very well established community and they have a good set of rules that apply well across games. Most issues between the rule sets are simply resolved by creating categories. For example, what's the deal...

It's a good thing that planning stages aren't counted as part of the speedrun timing. Otherwise my very first 50 hour run would be in the top running. :lol: But seriously, that takes not just the dedication of doing the run itself, but the countless hours of practice and training to reach the entry ...

It's great that the devs have the guts to make the hard calls, instead of bashing their heads against something that isn't working out. I mean, it also sucks, but that's life I guess.

Not gonna lie, the old robot sounds were pretty damn cute.

I do like that they're going for sounds that don't stick out too hard. An annoying sound effect multiplied by 100 things times dozens of hours would be the stuff of nightmares. Very few sounds really need to stand out in gameplay. The most important sounds would be direct hazards to the base or play...

Blueprinting is useless early game, due to the speed of the bots, it's actually slower to use BP's until you get worker robot speed researched X times. I get that using a BP would mark the places, but again doing that would be even slower. So for me there is no solution here. Low level bots are ama...

Every design choice is always a tradeoff. Factorio uses a very hard deterministic structure where all players run 100% simulation of the game at the same time. One of the nice things is that it's very hard to cheat in such a system. A player who provides bad data will simply desync and can't corrupt...