I have a problem with the amount of new items you generate like so. They are just more different items, not new stuff. From game aspect this brings no advancements.

No, the new recipes doesn't add anything, it's in the way these are acquired that changes the game, i was just giving an example. My ...

Do we have any more information on how barrels are expected to work? I had a nightmare where iron was used to make barrels of oil, and then the barrels of oil were burned and you lost the iron and i'm never going to sleep again. I'm hoping it'll be like with minecrafts forestry where you just put ...

The problem is that the production mechanics are too simplistic. Think of an ultra simplistic smart phone rpg; no health bars, no mana, no notion of damage; you simply cast a spell and it kills an enemy. If a game like that had sockets for equipment, what kind of stats could they offer? Damage buffs ...

He built 1100 steam engines, his max power output would be 600*1100 = 660kW, right?

I keep getting this wrong too but steam engines only produce 510 watt, not 600. :lol: Also, they're each in a row of 9 and the last engine never gets to run at full power so there is a dropoff.

I don't think you ...

Okay this one completely baffled me, noticed right after posting the other thread on diagonal tracks, i walk over and notice my coal train sitting on a station it was never supposed to enter.

This is the route the train is supposed to run, it's very small with just 4 branching paths it can take ...

Trains setup like this:
http://i43.tinypic.com/2lji8vd.jpg
Collide when running like this:
http://i43.tinypic.com/24wvs5c.jpg
If this is intentional the game doesn't explain this to you in any way; it LOOKS like this is perfectly valid, you can place tracks as if it was valid, and signals wont ...

Do you plan to offer some savegame?

Sure, here you go

http://www.mediafire.com/download/gpfou8h54omcka3/landoflittledronesandtrains.rar

If you want to have the powerplant running just put down a power line to connect the miners where you're standing to the powerline with the lights, that should ...

Finally finished this after 3 days. This was mostly just for fun, but it also works as a backup power supply if for some reason solar fails, and now i finally have somewhere to dump my coal. :lol:

It was too big to fit it all in a screenshot so gonna do a tour-thing with screenshots instead. I did ...

Besides researching to increase the amount of combat bots why not also research the amount of some high-level factory buildings one could have running in parallel? Perhaps even some higher level defense structures.

I'm currently trying to play with zero productivity modules and it seems like I do ...

Why not have the resources still as finite but have their output be high at start and slow down (to specific minimum speed) as more get extracted.

This allready happens as the miners at the edge of ore clumps finish first, unless you're not mining an entire clump at a time. I think this is a bad ...

Guys, what if modules had durability? Productivity modules would be a lot less potent if they broke after 100 uses

Keep in mind every world is different. My worlds have for the most part been around lakes, and stone has always been incredibly sparse, which I imagine is very different from your experiences. I think what we need right now are more options, so that instead of it feeling like we can't progress ...

Oil is just another resource (so yes it will be finite)

Never been a fan of this; resources for construction should be finite because they never really go away; what you build with them stays around in another form, but its never lost; or it's used to achieve something, like destroying a biter ...

What about liquid train cars? How do we extract the oil? Is oil a finite resource?

Factorio needs more ways to remove resources (Iron/copper) from the game. Right now the only sinks in the game are research and combat. (I don't count building as a sink because right now everything you build exists to provide MORE resources. Building is fun but spending resources to get more ...

But I think it would be faster, when they use paths over other roboports. I mean they could use a similar algorithm as the internet routing: If one path is full ( because the roboports are full of the loading stations) they should search a way over the other roboports. Which might be longer, but in ...

I don't think that will matter kovarex :( Productivity modules improves the core recipie while speed and efficiency only improve the method. Even if they were 1%, 2%, 3% i'd still use them exclusively, because they provide something nothing else in the game is capable off, whereas i can build more ...

Okay was about to make a thread about this but noticed this was up :D I always use drones when expanding my mining sites, usually setup with a train stop in the middle and then cover every resource deposit in a radius of 4-5 roboport areas with miners. Its very fast and easy to setup and take back ...

With speed that would drop to around 1 hour i think, but thats with the highest possible amount of productivity modules; just cutting it down by 1 module would reduce the time to 1 hour that can be reduced to about 10mins with speed bacon. But the point is you would need a much larger factory for a ...

But that doesn't take time into consideration. I didn't crunch numbers on what i'm sugesting, but you're clearly right that this wouldn't offset it completely. What if the time penalty is raised to 2^n for tier 1, 4^n for tier 2 and 8^n for tier 3? that would put the time it takes to assemble a ...