Will agree, sounds like a good mod option, but bad for the standard vanilla experience. Mainly as most of the initial stuff before making assembly machines doesn't involve the puzzle aspect of learning to get everything started. The game does have to start somewhere, but starting with burner inserte...

Main thing to remember with modules is that the speed changes are additive. Take a refinery. It has a crafting speed of 1. Crafting speed of crude oil is 5 seconds. Default speed is 5 / 1 = 5. Add some modules. By themselves, productivity modules have -15% speed. 3 of them add up to -45%. Our new re...

Real question though: is the defense strategy against biters necessarily that bad as a big picture? Biters defense in general reminds me of electricity generation. It's a problem that you "solve" later. You can have it go wrong at times if you neglect it, but it is an effectively solvable ...

Not everything requires a use. Dying in general breaks the immersion of the game. If that bothers you I'd suggest deleting the save on death or implementing some form of hardcore mode.

The press t thing has been really helpful in games for newer players that I've played with. Some people don't learn keybinds quickly. Always a useful thing to have a reminder for them.

You do know you can melee down the biters right? That's your infinite damage weapon. The pistol is useful for giving the player something good to start out with and have them feel like they're making an improvement with better weapons. The design is there to lead the players onward.

I love the change personally.

My bet would be that the heat from some of the reactors isn't getting all the way through. Should manually try looking at portions of the heating pipes to see if there's issues. Running another line or two of heat piping over might help out as an easy fix.

So shotgun damage really is 12 x (5+8) ? Years of being drilled on order of operations in maths makes me read it as (12x5) + 8. Then there's this. What's going on here? I think maybe it goes bang? Untitled-1.png Yea. It looks a little weird, but it's a difficult problem to solve. Reads better once ...

Will agree it might be intentional. It's a large plastic increase, but oil products in general aren't used much for science related usage in the base game. Upping it does do a good deal to change the feel of expensive. I still like it.

It is pretty dreary but I find as soon as I get my factory up and running it feels really good. Like, it's amazingly good to have a factory with a healthy wall and some sort of pavement on the ground. I love the difference in remaking the dreary world into something different. But yea. The first bit...

Would also recommend module usage. It's a lot of fun with creating different factory designs from the ones you initially start with. Plus the production is super fun to watch. Seeing just a few assembly machines busting out blue belts of gears and chips is actually fun to watch. As to building ghost...

Biters imo serve a good purpose in keeping you attached to the world and caring about it. Sure after awhile you can "solve" the problem through lots of turrets and other weapons, but that's standard with most problems in this game. I don't want to harvest the biters though. That's a proces...

Ah, yes, that might work - the combinator setups I've been trying to use are based on the combinator itself changing its behaviour when it's low on power, which hasn't been sufficiently sensitive/reliable. Just calculating the discharge rate is pretty straightforward and would be able to tell me wh...

I don't think there's any straightforward way since you can only check the charge level. You could measure the rate though using combinators. If the rate of depletion is the maximum of the system, then you're in a brownout scenario. Seems like you could also do with adding more accumulators to act a...

It's meant to be read like this: (3+.9) shots/second so 3.9 shots per second in total. Similar with the damage, (20+8) laser damage, for a total of 28. If a shot does multiple types of damage it'll read separately, eg something like:
20 laser
10 physical

Sounds either like you're not seeing the ore or have some odd settings. Using the mods + RSO I generated a few with default settings and found bobmonium in the starting location. You should have it right there with you.

Maybe post a screenshot?

I looked at the values at one point for .17 for an early deathworld run. Wanted to see how long it'd take to empty the pollution to see if a start and stop method would work for keeping pollution away from biters. What I noticed pretty quick was that pollution didn't disperse much. 2% into adjacent ...

Nah. Plates as the intermediate product instead of ingots fits a little better with representing what they are. It's not perfect either way, but it works better I think. Plates are a little bit further along in the processing tree compared to ingots in what they represent and the system doesn't make...

There's other topics on the subject too if you want to look for them. TLDR of the issue is that the issue gets really complicated really quickly depending on how people build. Building a system that works 100% no matter how it's built, and that can be displayed to the user in a way that any user can...