i use a system similar to holy-fire, however its doubled up. while holy uses two rows, i use four and have the belts pass between row 1-2 and 3-4. This way i can make the belts move in a loop instead, it does mean that i have to use a more complex feeding system, but that can be sorted with undergro...

i once did a military based course which had trainees(including me) grouped up 3 platoons of 30 each, it was a course for civilians to learn discipline and life skills so its maybe not what would be seen in real life, but they often had the trainees marching in 3 columns. my point is that they had t...

just my luck, the next two releases will really be things to look forward to, and form mid november till febuary im gonna be too busy to dig in to them. for steam i would say you should make the game as playable and stable as possible before going on steam, them focus on more features. not to say th...

if i recall correctly the names for train stations are based on contributors just like labs and other named machines. however to me that is a bad thing. i like to have boring but systematic names indicating importance and order. usually things like Alpha-1 Beta-4-1 or Alpha - Beta or even Coal Prima...

slpwnd wrote:The spacing is I think 3 chunks ~ 3 small squares in the minimap ~ 100 tiles. However this applies only from the chunks that have more than 5 player structures (hardcoded solution:)).

by player structure does that just mean player entities? or does it exclude walls/belts/electric posts?

i tend to come back to factorio every few months and play heaps for a week or two, then i run our of steam and go onto something else. im like that with pretty much everything i'll play heaps then die off, if i really like the game i'll come back to it when im in the right mood. and ever since i got...

it sounds more like the over agressive enemy base epansion issue, within what the biters see as THEIR base they'll attack any man made object regardless, this is combined with the fact that there is no way to remove player locations from the expansion candidates it means creepers will make a base th...

slpwnd wrote:Hi Guys. I have a question. Are these saves that were started before 0.7.0 ?

umm, no i have had this happen in game started on 7.0 and 7.1

LoSboccacc wrote:Beause brown is real!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealIsBrown

NOOOO not tvtropes, i need to sleep tonight

at this point im considering grabbing an old version and swapping the tiles over.

this has bothered me for a while now, but why is the grass no longer green? as it is now it looks more like savanna grass than anything else, and without it the only really colorful thing is parts of the trees and the water, which means that colour wise i find factorio really boring, the game itself...

What about just an electric fence that is connected to the grid and deals power at a setting that could be adjusted :) Low - Medium - High - Extreme The fence will supply power, if required, to other buildings as well (modification of the existing pole system perhaps?) The fence could allow conveyo...

+1
is tab used? that could be used for it

ssilk wrote:I see a gate also needed for some kind of tutorial mission. Open a new part of the map only, when the current part is solved.

or use it to expand mission parameters, "complete lab creation for the next stage" nd then the gate goes down and gives you a bigger area to work in.

As my 1000th post, I would like to announce the 0.7.1 release ... [*]Toolbelt technology adds second quickbar. nearly wet myself reading that :D for everything else, i like the general change in balancing, it teems that the general idea is to ease up on the early game so that you have more room to ...

ficolas wrote:Maybe the remands should be player-cleared?
That way you dont forget the set up of something if it is really destroyed, and time passes, and it stays for ever in the tut mision

i would choose player cleared, or automatically removed when something goes on top

would it be possible to extend the electric system stats?
i often want to know what %of each power item is utilized, what the max utilization for power and consumption, total accumulator energy capacity ect ect.

simple idea, armor upgrades for the power armor, armor modules that constantly use power in exchange for increasing damage protection(either protection % or increasing resistance by 1 ect) also on the same note, and extended storage unit which gives the character more storage slots and a crafting up...

love the idea of laser walls, but i'd say that power use is proportional to length, and each hit it take's is absorbed by using more energy.

Hey i thought about it, instead of having 1-5 and Shift + 1-5, and switch between quickbars, how about 1-0 and simply Shift + 1-0 for the other quickbar ? Basically, use the 10 numbers for the 10 slots, and shift for the alternative bar. No need to switch :) +1 it always bothered be that 1-5 works ...