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DoneAndDead wrote:I have no clue why the spoilers are not working....

[spoiler=Bugs]blah...[/spoiler]

LordFedora wrote:There is a way to force your mod to load last, something about final fixes

hoho wrote:Isn't it so that default assembling machine 1 can use up to 2 item recipes and assembly machine 2 can use 4?

If so then it's a bit of a problem as crafting assembly machine 1 and research lab takes 3 inputs. Essentially, player can't advance at all as no research is possible and there is just one assembler the entire game. Did you perhaps use some mods that override maximum assembler inputs (DyTech does that, perhaps some other mod too)?

A "fix" might be to give player assembly machine 2 at start instead of 1.

Palius84 wrote:It's great that you could make this mod, but why didn't you just use
game.onevent(defines.events.onplayercreated, function(event)
local player = game.getplayer(event.playerindex)
local technologylist = player.force.technologies

player.clearitemsinside()

player.character.insert{name="item-name", count=1}

player.force.manualcraftingspeedmodifier = -1

end)

pretty sure that would stop any other mods being an issue and stop the need for this to be loaded last.

n9103 wrote:Well this is neat. Haven't played yet, but definitely going on the to-do list for .12
Question though, why does the steam package have a mining drill and not the solar package? Better yet, why doesn't the standard package have it instead?

It's spelled further, btw.

futher work items

Totally random is not a good idea for early game packages, but later ones could be. A chance for a bad package means a chance for a deadend game, and if there's a chance at all, it'll end up happening more than once, and I'm sure that would get very frustrating quickly. After the player is established enough that packages are seen as bonuses, and not as tools for basic survival, then random is perfectly fine, as the worst outcome is not getting a boost.

Hiding the contents probably isn't very useful since the mod can't be obfuscated, plus the items would probably be listed here (or on the wiki even) by a player eventually. And even discounting these two possibilities, the last point still applies, so the initial packages would still have static contents, making it trivial for a player to simply restart after choosing to know what they contain.

If these random packages occur after the first hour or two of gameplay, power packages wouldn't help much unless a player is playing with the expectation that they're going to get these power packages. Before that point though, power or production focused packages would probably be equally useful.

All mods should be able to be independent, but there's not much wrong (player-side, coder-side this means a lot more work,) with adding optional dependencies that change things depending on what other mods are present. (See Bob's Assembly Machines for a perfect and simple example.)

The last item sounds like you're making a list for your future projects, since you've gotten the No Crafting one done as well.

Mazter wrote:i "found" another "bug"
you cant craft the oil refinery in anything other than assembling machine 3, and to make that you need plastic and blue science packs to make the modules to craft that.

general_lex wrote:I have a new mod challenge you could create (cause u dont know how to make a mod


---No Crafting Challenge 2---
One using ONLY bots to do everything.... from the start.
By that i mean they really do everything.

You can't mine or chop trees
You cant even pick up stuff from chest or ground.
You tell them to build and remove stuff because you can't.
You get the point.

Of course you would need to start with the rigth tech to create more Bots and Chest or you would get alot from start and need to squeeze
your base the most efficient way to make all potion to get to those tech.

I guess from start you could receive 4-6 roboport and 100 bots or something.

The best mode to do this mod would be in spectator mode (builder mode or something) The one you view everything and you still can build but while not
having to move your caracter.