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Here is a tech tree in the style of Civ5, another game I have spent many hours playing.

Factorio Tech Tree

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That's pretty neat, though... hard to make out. :P

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That is so useful for planning things out. I hope this gets pinned or something.

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Looks really nice. It would be great to have a link to this on the wiki ...

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Oh wow, that looks really good. Totally going to use that to plan my next world!

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But it shows one thing, that the dependencies in the tech tree have to be organiced in a new way. As in civ, the tech tree is 4 or 5 lines high, but the lines connecting the different researches are never hidden or overlapped

This would make a much cleaner design: (As said, the different research prerequisites would have to be reworked by the devs). Your Tech Tree is very nice as an idea, but not really helpful (because of the messed up dependencies ingame). Yes it shows the number of resreach packs required, but can you eg read from that tech tree, what you need to research before you can get eg the "railway" technologies?

http://www.civfanatics.com/gallery/file ... iginal.jpg Here you always can tell what to research prior or after a given technology, civ indeed has a very nice research system and tree

[Edit] Ah I see its clickable, yes, nicely done, very helpful that way.

Maybe a lot of techs should be complessed to just one research project ingame. eg. Big research (a lot of science packs) for railway systems, where you get ALL the tech (stations, rail signals,..) at once. Combined research for all module types each tier, combined reseach for shotgun and bullet tech, and so on.
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robhol wrote:That's pretty neat, though... hard to make out. :P
I also had to find out you can click on the icons... It's even written there :D

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Very cool. :) Played around a while. Can you open the source how you made it?
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Very good, I'll be bookmarking that.

Hopefully it's built to be easily expanded/modified for patches and updates :)

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Wow, Image

The highlighting works well to help unravel the tech tree monstrosity a bit :D

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It is nice, but the Rocket defense and probably some more items like Power armor mk2 etc. have some 'hidden requirements' Not for the research, but they are there if you want to build it.

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Would actually be nice to have something like this ingame. Doesnt have to be fancy or anything. But it gives you a nice timeline of what you need to get where. instead of having to click 30 random techs atm.

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Very convenient, thanks about that :)

BTW, some offtopic (maybe I don't need to open a new thread if someone knows): I saw someone posting kind of a "cheat sheet" in some thread to help with planning assembly lines. It shows what you need for a certain number of items, say, how many copper wires for three advanced circuit board assemblies (if I understood it correctly). Can't find it anymore though :( has someone seen that thread around? Any help would be appreciated :)

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GewaltSam wrote:BTW, some offtopic (maybe I don't need to open a new thread if someone knows): I saw someone posting kind of a "cheat sheet" in some thread to help with planning assembly lines. It shows what you need for a certain number of items, say, how many copper wires for three advanced circuit board assemblies (if I understood it correctly). Can't find it anymore though :( has someone seen that thread around? Any help would be appreciated :)
Do you mean this: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=8&t=3434 ? Pretty neat tool

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RMJ wrote:Would actually be nice to have something like this ingame. Doesnt have to be fancy or anything. But it gives you a nice timeline of what you need to get where. instead of having to click 30 random techs atm.
Ingame techtree is planned for version 0.12, lets hope we can make it :)

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we placed some links here: https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/index.php?title=News

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Updated for 0.10.12.

Now with recipe ingredients!

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Thanks for posting. that's really cool :)

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This is really cool. However I think for a tech tree like Factorio's a web would work much much better, as it would both look nicer and be easier to see what requires what and how far out you are from something else.

For reference here's a picture of Endless Space's tech web:

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Year, a circular form makes sense somehow.
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