The devs have thought about adding ships to the game. But as far as I understand it, they have other priorities at the moment. So they said they like the idea, but that the're not making any promises. So don't expect it soon (or maybe never), but know that the idea is heard.

This would be a great addition for me. Being honest, I never really liked the combat drones. It felt really cheesy that they could fly without a flightframe. Sure, the combat drones work and add alot. But since the addition of a flying frame, I think that the combat drones at least should have gotte...

Haha, awesome! xD

slpwnd wrote:Hmmm, maybe we could introduce couple of new terrains by simple transformations of the existing ones

This could be nice to play around with. It could add some differsity to the map. Not that it isn't already good looking.

Sorry, but to be honest, it looks really nice. :P Yeah, your factory could be more effective, but thats the charm of the game. The only tip I'll give you is to make the red and green science packs go on opposite sides of one transporter belt. By having both green sciencepacks on the left and red sci...

Well, looking back at transport tycoon, adding a bridge would add something to the game since factorio also has water. The addition of an underground rail on the other hand doesn't make sense. In transport tycoon you had mountains for which the tunnels where used, but since whe don't have any hight ...

I can think of something, which is available only at very far distances and distincted. Resource A is found only near water, while resource B is found only in desserts. Or low vs. high temperatures. Or something else And between them is 2000 tiles or more. (2000 tiles needs about one-two minutes dr...

Knowing that the origional post is from more than a year ago. I think that the current direction of modular armour is better that using a experience leveling skill. Seeing that the core of the game is about building things, experience would just be a stark contrast in parralel to the game. I would l...

One of the things I consider is to remove the campaign (apart the demo) completly and just add lot of interactive tutorial "rooms" that would be available when you do something. No please, don't do this. :( I like campaigns. :) Also 2500 Piercing bullets is a ridiculous amount, you are pr...

Currently if I were to place my blueprint and some of my electric miners happen to be outside of the mineral resources area, it will turn red and will not allow me to implement it. This is very annoying because there are no area of mineral deposits that are exactly alike. We should be able to imple...

Just throwing something into the mix here. What about hidden ores that do not appear in every game? Which then dictates the tech tree that can be accessed that game? For example, Tech Branch A requires Ore A, Tech Branch B requires Ore B but only either Ore A or Ore B will appear each game (rarely ...

Just giving my two cents here. The construction robots work really well in the game, and even the combat robots as there worked into the game right now. But to be honest, I don't like the idea of a throne room. I think that adding a throne room to the game will separate you from your character. What...

Hmmm... I don't think it would fit in my vision of Factorio. Trading with other player? No, thank you. Trading with biters on the other hand could be interesting, but biters aren't smart enough for trade at the moment. Bu why should we even trade? We can already get every thing that we want in the g...

Yeah, I totaly agree on the fact that gameplay should be the biggest factor. For me, Factorio is more about automation. So I won't mind making a complex setup for nuclear energy. I mean, automating processors or modules takes time. I really like the difficult set up. But once set up, I want the fact...

To be honest, I don't know if the addition of coal, copper, iron or stone as hidden ores would add anything to the game. If anything, it would be cool if ores like uranium could only be mined by a giant structure (like oilpumps). The technology would be tier 3 or 4 so that it can't be mined in the b...

I would love to have nuclear energy in the game. As said above, I only want it to heat water. I don't want it to magicaly create energy. What would be really neat is the addition of mk-II steam engines. My thought is the nuclearplant and the mk-II steam engines would be pressurised, as to let the wa...

Coolthulhu wrote:It may be because I set low starting area size. That may be important.

I think this is what made the differance between us, maybe I'll try that out some time. Altough a desert start with rich and frequent biters could be nice too.

In my honest opinion, I don't think removing the radar and adding it as something you'll need to research would add anything to the game. In my games I used a system of four turrets that are being loaded by a central crate filled with ammo (by inserters). It was quite easy checking these boxes and t...

Just update to the 0.9.x version. Blueprints are already implemented, these can already be places as far as you can see. The only limitation is the construction range of roboports. Laser sieging is still in the game, and more easier than in 0.8 because of the use of blueprint. Because hell, construc...

As I see it, explosive rockets are only usefull in area splash. But I never use rockets anyway. Assault shotgun with regular shells and modullar armour with four lvl.1 shields on it are enough to get the early job done. After researching piercing shotgun shells and destroyer bots, you'll not need an...