This introduces a different problem, though, which is that if you copy the heap to a different location all the pointers in it become invalid I was aware of this issue but considered it not even worth mentioning in my post. It isn't really a "problem". The pointers don't become "inva...

5 GB/s copying raw concurrent memory around sure. But that's not how actual programs are laid out in memory and we don't want to write out the entire contents of the processes memory to disk. If you don't think that's correct, feel free to let him know. Rseding presents a false dichotomy - i.e. tha...

I think they should not be able to fire while on the move. There could also be a delay before firing. Like the train stops, then it has to put down some supports and unfold itself before the turret can rotate and fire. Reverse that before driving away. From the start of that paragraph to the end, I...

Also, I'm fairly certain that bullets and lasers track the biters because doing otherwise would mean that many would have to miss, or they would have to directly check the path the biter would take, due to changes in direction, etc. In addition, any type of leading of enemies could be costly for CP...

2. Why is the plasma cannon crap? It blows up your own base. it blows up the railway lines Even with a minimum range set, it blows itself up! (I'm 99% sure I did everything right to set the weapon to target position, yet the projectile still tracks an enemy, an enemy that is running towards the tra...

The way resource spawning works, the parameters Frequency and Size each influence both, the actual frequency and the actual size. So when you set the Frequency of an ore to very low but its size to very high the result is a somewhat high frequency, if you use low frequency and small size then the o...

If you're finding that there are too many resource deposits, make sure frequency is set to very low together with size very big. That should give much more room to work with *sigh* As indicated in my post (and in the post I linked, and as you can verify by loading the map string from the linked pos...

Some innocuous wildlife other than the biters would also help make things feel a bit better as well The devs tried putting such things in. The biters kept eating them all. :lol: Regarding map gen, please make when setting resource frequency to very low that it spawns even less patches and further f...

What do you think about it? Either the straight sections are overpowered (wasteful) or the corners are too weak, because your corners are much weaker than the straight sections. To see why, look at the analysis I did in this post . I also don't think there's nearly enough solar there to keep those ...

OK, no more excuses, and no more playing Factory Idle until I finish this planet... Planet Date: 106:34:20 At last. Somebody finally did something about the lack of defenses in the main base: aj_050.jpg The design I went with has columns of double lasers where the range of each column overlaps quite...

The minimap autohide mod can hide almost everything (ctrl-t to toggle tech, ctrl-m to toggle minimap, ctrl-b to toggle all stuff at bottom of screen). The one thing that mod doesn't provide a way to hide is the buttons (bonuses button, trains button, etc.).

Planet Date: 93:08:14 The planned new set of stations I mentioned last time is now in place: aj_044.jpg The supplies train now has some purpose and is servicing "SW1 Supply", and a train is delivering ore from "Fe Ore SW1" (collected from three different iron deposits) to The Iro...

more "everything you get immediately when you start green science" You get nothing immediately. If you want "it" (whatever "it" is) you have to: 1. research it 2. have/get adequate resources for it 3. produce it Your real beef appears to be that you don't like having a...

The consumption of T1 modules in science should be irrelevant. This is correct. It can make sense to think about balancing module costs in terms of basic resources costs (iron ore, copper ore, oil - with respect to what other things the player might want at the same time cost and with respect to wh...

Personally, I like the T2 modules because they give the player a choice: do you want to save resources, save energy, or some balance in between? This is really the key point: Having meaningful choices to make makes playing the game more satisfying. Preserving and creating meaningful choice should b...

I frequently use Tier 2 Efficiency modules. 2 of them in something like an Electric Furnace puts you exactly at the 80% energy reduction cap Same here. Also in pumpjacks. Also when using beacons I'll tend to use mostly T3 efficiency modules (in a mix with T3 speed modules) in the beacons (and T3 pr...

Just surround your whole base with a solid fuel "storage" system. Feed it with one big long belt like a gun turret ammo setup, but instead of filling turrets with bullets you're filling a solid wall-like set of boxes with solid fuel. Then as long as your base is making pollution and pullin...

Planet Date: 75:07:49 Got another large wisp incursion in the western end of the solar array. Yeah, more trees need choppin'. (The wisps probably floated over the water to the south-west from the forest on the other side.) Planet Date: 79:48:46 aj_041.jpg I've upgraded most of the exterior wall to b...

You can try https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Afforess/Misanthrope for more evil biter behavior. If you go back and read my intro post for this run, you'll see (if you open up the "MORE MODS" spoiler) that I'm not using Misanthrope because I've had it completely break biter attacks - as in z...