My thought when I first heard those new bot sounds:

Today isn't april fools day is it?

Uhh... what's the point of this menu stage? Why couldn't you make the scenario selection screen have a load save button or the load save screen have a new game button instead? (Latter one is what Minecraft does.) Or you could just move these two buttons to occupy the place of the "Singleplayer&...

Just when I finish making my real life spaghetti this happens.

I'm only prepared on Fridays.

If we are talking about the main menu, you should make either it's background or foreground more lively at least. It doesn't give a good impression. Either have it load a factory as a background (similar to what open ttd does), a video, or exchange the movable window (which is movable for no reason)...

Not a bunch of graphs again!

Is it just me, or was the water always somewhat animated in the game?

It's probably just me.

Albert wrote:But apart from biters and the factory, nothing else moves in this Factorio planet.

Yeah it's just me and what might have been some lighter optical illusion. Apart from fish of course.

Klonan wrote:we will not be doing any more 0.17 releases

Okay then...

Guess we don't get the better fluid physics.

Another change we didn't know we needed. Great!

Gotta love how the image file for the printed dude is fff-319-jesus.png

Just talking off the top of my head, but the one entity type that seems like it would benefit from batching the most is belts. Yes, belts, inserters too. Bots don't have to build multiple entities in the same tick. They could instead be assigned to as many ghosts of the same type as they can carry,...

A topic this good this early?

I must be dreaming!

Came here to say... that I'm loving the new Factorio Shirt that I have bought. Looking forward the day when someone actually recognizes it. (Probably take long since winter is coming.)

Super-interested in the idea of turning off the "base" mod (then maybe the ability to load in a sub-set of base mod features, e.g. terrain). We used to be able to do that but the game doesn't let us disable the base mod anymore. If turning it off would technically break mods, why not make...

Save and reload each tick...

Talk about being extremely thorough...

Who else thought of biters when reading "the great bug war"?

Wait a minute!

0.17 had EXACTLY 70 releases so far. If you thought you can get away with saying "nearly" because it's 69, you might be right, but it's 70. Because we are also counting 0.17.0 aren't we?

This is probably why you shouldn't have admitted to the release of a game slowing you down. This loose approach to game development however does seem to be paying off, especially when smart people know exactly when to take a break.

I have a proposal for underground pipes: How about making their connections unbreakable by placing another underground pipe in between them? Let any given underground pipe connect to all underground pipes that are in the direction it's facing, have the opposite orientation, and are within it's rang...

We all hate refactoring don't we?

Seriously, as a programmer myself, my (jokish) prayer every morning contains: god let there be no refactoring today

Uhhh... now conveyor belts, walls, pipes and heat pipes are screaming for remnants that connect.

And let's not forget the copper cables of power poles.

I'm probably going too far. This should be technically achievable but like... not worth it.