Personally I dislike the launch without a satellite because it feels so useless. Suggestion: How about adding a "Test launch" feature to the rocket silo? This test launch does the same as a normal rocket launch without a satellite, but gives the player 100 space science packs. These can no...

I did unterstand absolutely nothing of what you said, sorry. :/ What is b1? Is dc one variable or a multiplication of d and c? What is dc / d and c? What do you mean with the arrow (→)? But even if I would understand this stuff (translating high complexity math is hard ^^), what do you want with thi...

PRAISE THE SCIENCE!

And yes to science pack names. I prefer them over numbers.
Also yes to the merged military research. The system sounds better than the momentary.

@Nightinggale: Not intended as "bait" or trolling at all - I don't mean you personally with "you", but person B. Just someone, whoever that might be - maybe you can be person B, I don't know for sure, but I also don't really care as I try to make my arguments / my viewpoint as ne...

Say person A makes a mod, which unannounced has a feature, which shakes the screen really badly. Next person B downloads the mod without knowing this and is then exposed to it against his/her will. Then person B closes the game, deletes the mod, and done. It's that easy. If even extremely short exp...

@Nightinggale: Just because you can't have such features means no one is allowed to have them? Modders should have complete freedom about this camera feature. Players with serious problems with camera movement will then just not be able to use them (at least not if they have no way to disable them)....

Cutscenes? Nice! I always liked making custom cutscenes in other games. Will help for the campaign, too.

@Lubricus: Cadde talks about mods without necessary dependencies. His example did show that.

That's an early FFF.

I like event based programming. It just feels "natural" to fire off an event and say "Here, please do $stuff for me.". It's the same with object oriented programming. Your invariants fulfill (as far as I can tell) exactly this natural feeling.

That are heat pipes, used in nuclear setups to transfer the heat of the reactor to generate steam for energy production.

I just hope that sending these informations without opt-in is against the General Data Protection Regulation and Wube is just FORCED to remove this shit. I like nearly all decisions of Wube, some I dislike - but this is the only one I actively hate and think is objectivly bad. Please reconsider that...

Nice new substation.

Some people said in the earlier time of the game that it didn't look good. That was the main reason why many friends of mine didn't want to try the game. With all of these new graphics maybe they now will.

I suggest to make a tweet about these problems in the future. Twitter would be the first place to search for informations about offline websites for me. ^^

I guess that now when belts ends go over the the next tile we will return to letting inserters pick up items from the tile where belt is not physically placed but items are pushed onto it :?: :?: :?: No, I don't think so. That was a stupid property and hopefully removed forever. ^^ I'm really happy...

The change to the first post did break the link to the FFF blog post. There is a ¨ at the end of the link.

Interactive text for the win!
Reminds me of other games like World of Warcraft. You can also link most stuff in the chat there.

Oh, and please remember: assembling machine 2 and 3 have accordingly 2 and 4 slots for modules as a unique feature to distinguish them from the first assembling machine.

In my opinion the devs should not care much for mod compatiblity in the next version. Backward compatiblity is nice, but always has some disadvantage about making changes that improve a game / program. They don't have to break mods just for the lulz, but "that change would break mods!" sho...

I suggest reading the Factorio Friday Facts (FFF) - there you will see how the development of 0.17 is going along.

As a result, if you try to force naming, you are likely to just end up with multiple "domains" of nomenclature which have difficulty communicating. That is exactly what already happens / already happened. In the moment the game even encourages that by using multiple names for the same thi...