An alternative would be to introduce a new mode of driving trains, a semi-automatic mode. This has been suggested in the following threads: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=42694 Half automatic / half manual train driving https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=49850 ...

Not gonna lie... you acknowledged that you've chosen to make things more complicated when there's a perfectly valid existing solution but that you don't want to do the work created by previously mentioned complication. I believe that's an important point of contemplation. I can see the use for this,...

So the problem is "When I manually drive trains, I might not realize that there's a train parked in front of me with enough time to stop." you want a solution that provides more time to stop. I can sympathize with this... but to be real blunt manually driving trains is dangerous, no matter...

Rseding has made the dev view very clear on the topic, but I feel like still voicing another opinion on the topic... because I'm obstinate. Sorry. Many years ago, I stopped putting in the effort to make sure that the saved files from every game I play are all properly backed up. It made me sad, but ...

I don't see a need to make a 1-tile lane balancer. I actually enjoy having to find the space to place them. What I would like to see is the ability to place down a blueprint and in the process automatically order deconstruction of everything (including my own structures/belts/etc...) that are in the...

I did a test once with just creative mod, one single turret, one single behemoth biter, both of them placed in editor mode with the biter at the turret's maximum range. All non infinite researches conducted. Did this twice, one of the turrets being a gun turret, one being a laser turret, with enoug...

On part of what you said: blueprints in the blueprint library are just mini save files. That's how they work and that's how they will always work. You will always have to have the correct set of mods enabled to use blueprints created with those mod(s). Your desires for how you want blueprints to wo...

The ability to blueprint vehicles with their inventory filters & their equipment grid makes sense to me. It's use is limited in vanilla, but still useful. It's usefulness in a number of other modded style playthrough is massive.

The game does not support having both of those GUIs open at the same time. That's why it currently isn't there. When you go to open the blueprint from the blueprint library, close the blueprint library then open the blueprint. Tada! </smartass comment> ... Sorry. Though in all seriousness, this is ...

The ore dictionary's origins are slightly different in minecraft than they are in factorio, but it's functionality could/would be much the same. In the end, the ability to specify a single name that references multiple names is still useful. Keep in mind, even in minecraft the ore dictionary has bee...

Within the bounds of revealed terrain I agree with this. Honestly it'd be nice to even be able to place ghosts down while the game is paused, not any more powerful than the ability to blueprint. Also, the ability to create blueprints while the game is paused. Actually, if this could be extended to t...

Rather than a lamp... what about the ability to just directly color-code electric poles? A setting on them similar to how you can set the stack sizes manually on inserters. The only issue is that it means click on a power pole would now bring up a settings menu for it rather than the power graph fo...

Can we have some method of telling factorio to remove *everything*, including your own structures, that are in the way of a blueprint? Say maybe Shift+Ctrl? Often times, especially when dealing with belt lines, I want to replace everything that is in the way of a blueprint in order to get it down. T...

This was actually on my list of things to come and suggest at some point. When I recently came back and did a modded playthrough, I was confused for a moment because I tried to do just this and it didn't work but I could've sworn that it worked before. Then I remembered that no, this doesn't work. W...

Rather than a lamp... what about the ability to just directly color-code electric poles? A setting on them similar to how you can set the stack sizes manually on inserters. The only issue is that it means click on a power pole would now bring up a settings menu for it rather than the power graph for...

So... playing with the platforms mod recently I realized something rather obvious. The ability to place and then remove landfill is actually rather game breaking. It allow for the creation of a lot of structures that are impervious to biters, and several others that are nearly so. You can easily cre...

As an alternative, an 'enforce personal roboport usage' might be feasible? The game appears to check for bots from your personal roboport before falling back to the fixed roboport network. Might be possible for the game to just be told to not fallback if a construction project is within your persona...

Where I'm pretty certain factorio doesn't track what each individual building drains, but instead calculates an aggregate demand and supply and then uses accumulators to make up the difference if possible, there's no way to see what an individual building or building type drains. If you want to see ...

Just use a personal pronoun so the tooltip is the item talking to you. With a smiley face, of course. "I can also be used to mine any kind of path =)" "Thank you Mr. Stone Brick sir!" (Turns to Mr. Assembler #43402) "Technically Stone Brick isn't a male, but he likes to thi...

I see no reason a game community or developers cannot define terminology with definitions or syntax local to the game. It happens all the time. Really? You can't think of any reasons that communities of people or developers shouldn't use common nomenclature rather than redefine their own terms? I m...