I don't really know if that is possible, but maybe a fix would be to implement some sort of cycle that says "every x seconds (maybe once a minute), reset all work assignments to robots, then reassign them based on the new situation": this way, a worker robot that is already near the const...

I have bad news. When I was finally able to make the bug report it got moved to "not a bug". I suspect that devs consider this behavior to be "not a problem" and that players must live with the annoying design flaw. Sorry guys, but it seems like there won't be a fix and we'll ha...

In newer opengl versions you can have buffers mapped persistently. Then you can do away with the map/unmap operation. I know, but we are really doing OpenGL just for legacy support, so it doesn't make sense for us to have two different backends for OGL 3.3 and 4.5. We will do Vulkan instead. I beli...

In newer opengl versions you can have buffers mapped persistently. Then you can do away with the map/unmap operation. Did you also consider tesselation shaders? It's the more specialized little brother of geom shading that doesn't have its drawbacks. It will let you expand a single vertex into a qua...

one way to help with the book awkwardness is to create a hotkey to open the book dialog and let the player navigate it using the keyboard: I have a book in the cursor and press the hotkey the book dialog opens with the current blueprint highlighted I can use mouse and/or wasd to navigate the grid an...

At the very least allow us to create a blueprint directly from a quick copy on the clipboard

Also a search bar in the library wouldn't go amiss

You are trying to solve the wrong problem. The real problem is bots getting lost in the first place. Bots should not move out when 1) the roboport is disabled. That's not the same as taking it out of the armor since then it looses it's charge. It needs a disable feature. 2) you are moving close to ...

Obviously it is not a bug but a very annoing feature. Simple solution would be if personal bots gets their jobs assigned either if inside your backpack or charging. And only in those situations. But then a bot can't fly out, place a rail and then deconstruct a tree on the way back. Then let them ge...

What you can take from it? 1. Before you finish the game hire an RTS expert and ramp up the enemy challenge and the combat gameplay. 2. Finish Factorio and maybe get workign on Factorio 3D bot AI in RTS often just boils down to cheating the build order, spy on the oponent's build order and tech to ...

The reproduction steps work and make it far clearer what your actual problem is. (Because your constant repetition of "queue size doesn't matter" is just wrong, and doesn't help at all :p). Might be worth a shot at a bug-report. "Personal robots out-of-range should not be assigned ne...

That's not what the OP is looking for.The lua code you find in the files are simply tables. Which properties the game loads, what is optional and mandatory, what they default to and how it loads them can only be found in the c++ part of the game and on the linked wiki page. That information is what...

.... The fact that Duracell has an interest to prevent trademark dilution does not get them legally anywhere though. You do not compete in the same market, you do not mislead others into believing you are affiliated with Duracell. You produce a product of art and are exercising your right to nomina...

So, Duracell very politely pointed out to us by an e-mail the battery design we were using is their trademark and asked us to change it. Companies need to protect their trademarks otherwise the'll lose them. Factorio doesn't have that large audience on the global scale on its own, but if Duracell l...

No really that makes sense. Thanks for refreshing my faith in reasonableness. Looks like a cover up story. Agreed, unquestionably a statement that someone on the payroll of duracell would say! US trademark law says (broadly speaking) that a company can lose a trademark if they fail to defend it. Th...

I might mention at this point that the speeds of yellow/red/blue belts are currently 1/32, 1/16, and 3/32 of a tile per tick, or 1+7/8, 3+3/4, and 5+5/8 of a tile per second. If the engine were to be modified to run at 50FPS retroactively, it would require the belt speeds to be non-1/32-increments,...

minimal change much?

maybe make the sync mods with save button a bit more obvious, it completely blends in with the rest of the window.

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quoting the actual text: (from https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2016.119.01.0001.01.ENG ) (26)The principles of data protection should apply to any information concerning an identified or identifiable natural person. Personal data which have undergone pseudonymisatio...

Sell the data? Really? Are you aware, that only logs of crashes are there? And since Factorio starts to be quite stable, only tens out of tens of thousands of people ever get a log uploaded? I'm not an expert on this, but I would guess that having dozens of random windows usernames, or random IP ad...