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I think the textures for the lab packs arent very accurate, along with the lab. If i craft an iron gear and a copper plate, i somehow get a red liquid in a glass flask, and if i craft a conveyor belt and a robotic arm, i get a green liquid in a glass flask, maybe it should be something like a circuit as a texture or something. And when you put these liquids in a lab, it starts doing this electric zap thing. Maybe the lab could look similar to a assembly machine or something.
A lot of textures are old and outdated, such as turrets, electric mining drill, trains and train stops, portable fusion reactors, etc. Maybe just look through all the textures and see if they look bad or outdated. I also thing the stone furnace should get a new look.
The cluster grenade research icon looks lazy compared to everything else, and the cluster grenade itself has a bit of a lazy icon, (different hue of grenade).
Underground pipes and belts should have a very high length, and they just take up belts/pipes in your inventory depending on the length of the belt/pipe. Underground belts use 5 belts in crafting, but what if you make the length of it 2? where did the other belts go?
Also, maybe when an item is moved by an inserter, it rotates as it moves, or maybe it is in a random orientation when its on the belt, to make it look more realistic.
Maybe trains could have speed limits in signal blocks, and using that, a train would take the faster speed limit route. Because maybe it could be a 'train highway' and there is a slow lane, and fast lane.
I know there are shadows, but they are not relative to the sun, because they are just fixed in one place. I think they should move and stuff.

the best idea i think:
Weather!
rain that makes the ground wet, thunder, fog, cloud shadows etc. But if this were to be implemented into the game, it would have to be really good and realistic. Water dripping from machines, and running down stuff

Please consider these ideas it would be amazing to see this happen soon!

I approved it as this post is not spam, but you are not following the rules of this subforum, I suggest you read the announcement topics and change your post accordingly.

Wait... Trains, turrets and fusion reactors have out dated textures? These are some of the ones that have actually been overhauled recently.

or are you talking about the icons?

- Textures/icons of most stuff will be overhauled (hires-able)
- Inserters follow strict rules, there is actually no bug in them, only a slight timing difference between upward/downward/left/right. See wiki or just watch their actions exactly.
- Train speed limits: See viewtopic.php?f=80&t=7717 Can the player be killed by train? (Train kills?!)
-> In one of the posts this is explained. There is already a mod for that. https://mods.factorio.com/mods/icedevml/TrainSpeedLimit
- Shadows will never be 3D. Factorio is pure 2D, the graphics include the shadow.
- Weather: See viewtopic.php?f=80&t=342 Events (Environmental Disasters and Weather) / Biome-Types

bobingabout wrote:Wait... Trains, turrets and fusion reactors have out dated textures? These are some of the ones that have actually been overhauled recently.

or are you talking about the icons?

yea sorry i meant icons, the actual textures are good.

Please can you delete this, because i got rid of some stuff, and seperated ideas in to seperate posts, sorry i didnt read the post 'read this or be ignored'

I closed the thread, but didn't delete it, cause it doesn't hit the criterias for deletion.

It could still be used as bad example.