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...

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Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:40 pm

More NEW official content please, not just bugfixes for mods...

But if you really think about it, fixing a game breaking bug in a mod is effectively adding new functional content to the game.

Beacon bonus shrinks smoothly as power decreases. I was wrong, it is possible to save energy and keep the full beacon bonus, if you turn off power when they aren't watching. https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=82236 Absolutely devilish. But how do you synchronize the beacon power s...

Dying turns logistics off

Noice.

Logi system now does minimum and maximum

Double noice.

My suggestion doesn't change literally anything as far as the player is aware.

Magic makes a lot of things possible. That doesn't mean it's possible. There are existing solutions like clusterio, that's as close as it gets to magic box factory abstraction.

I'm pretty sure we had this discussion a long time ago. The big issue with abstracting the factory out is that you no longer have a factory to look at. It's just a black box with inputs and outputs. You can do the same thing with gigantic magic cheat boxes, but who wants to build their factory out o...

Wait, so a fluid producer can have nothing to do and still be active? Neat. Post your save, devs love that sort of weird stuff.

There's also a pile of other console commands to play with. https://wiki.factorio.com/Console /mute-programmable-speaker <mute/unmute> <local/everyone> /mute-programmable-speaker mute local Mutes or unmutes the global sounds created by the Programmable Speaker. Use “local” to mute just the local cli...

The main reason to not allow electric boilers is due to the "safe" nature of factory failure. Electric boilers consume energy and can be used to produce energy, but only with some kind of loss penalty. if you were to generate electric energy in an infinite loop, it'd do nothing but drain y...

It would certainly be neat to have a crafting chain from basic armor all the way to mk2. Overall, the module space inherent in the armor never decreases, it only increases. So it could theoretically work in the default game, the armor only gets better after all. It does seems like a pretty low prior...

The number one tool for getting in game screen shots is Ctrl-PrtScr and MSpaint.

Proposing a low flow mode for an unpowered (speculative) burner pump. Water flow should be around 60 or 120/s. This probably won't change much. Players will solve their problems by stacking a dozen unpowered pumps, that way they're guaranteed to be okay. They're cheap enough to spam build, after al...

There is a very difficult early game point where you need to advance beyond bullet ammo and get flame throwers before blue biters hit the field. Most biter evolution comes from generating pollution, and marathon 10x mode means you'll be producing 10 times as much to climb up the tech tree. If the bi...

I keep getting the suspicion that up to a certain perimeter length, regular manual repairs and refilling with ammo takes less time than the time it takes to build these sorts of self-sustained defenses. And I also usually switch to lasers ASAP to avoid needing that kind of stuff (among other reason...

Simple arrays are fantastic for running super fast code, however most objects in factorio have to be added and removed in arbitrary ways. Working through an array is fast, but adding and removing elements is slow and only gets slower as the array grows. If an exploding item simply leaves the array s...

When it comes to programming, everyone is an expert! :lol: Such is the nature of internet forums. It's easy to open up task manager, look at any CPUs not running at 100%, and cry out "Look at those empty clocks! My game can go THAT much faster!". If only optimizing code was that easy. Ther...

A fuel wait simply isn't a terribly important condition. Train fuel consumption isn't very high, and train refueling is extremely fast. It takes a very special setup to have a train load or unload more slowly than it can refuel. As long as your train has at least one location in its route where it c...

GPU computing does not have the same abilities as CPU computing. Each new generation gets more stuff, but if it's not up to the whole task then it won't work.

The biggest factorio chokepoint revolves around memory access performance. Running more clones of factorio.exe would only multiply the amount of memory bandwidth that your PC requires. The synchronous nature of multiplayer requires that everyone runs the exact same simulation, so you can't truly dum...