Friday Facts #125 - Achievements

[Drury]

But i want to build my space station in factorio and do some space traveling

Me too my friend, me too.

I see a lot of people talking about your own base burning. I think steel and concrete don't burn very well.
I'd imagine burning trees nearby might do damage to buildings, but I don't see how your own buildings would burn.

High voltage equipment finds a way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noJOuoQyRIs

[jockeril]

But i want to build my space station in factorio and do some space traveling

There's a game for that - it's called Space Engineers! also - try farlight explorers (for the factory in space thing)

Factorio is about building automation and transportation with a hint of tawer defence and a competition about how many rockets you can send to space (and burning down a forest in the name of progress )

[Drury]

But i want to build my space station in factorio and do some space traveling

There's a game for that - it's called Space Engineers! also - try farlight explorers (for the factory in space thing)

Factorio is about building automation and transportation with a hint of tawer defence and a competition about how many rockets you can send to space (and burning down a forest in the name of progress )

And then it was going to be about space traveling.

And then it wasn't.

Bummer.

[kovarex]

But i want to build my space station in factorio and do some space traveling

There's a game for that - it's called Space Engineers! also - try farlight explorers (for the factory in space thing)

Factorio is about building automation and transportation with a hint of tawer defence and a competition about how many rockets you can send to space (and burning down a forest in the name of progress )

And then it was going to be about space traveling.

And then it wasn't.

Bummer.

No space platform before the 1.0 release. This doesn't mean no space platform ever.

[Phillip_Lynx]

No space platform before the 1.0 release. This doesn't mean no space platform ever.

THIS sounds promising if not awsome!

I have thought the platform was ditched for good.

[Drury]

But i want to build my space station in factorio and do some space traveling

There's a game for that - it's called Space Engineers! also - try farlight explorers (for the factory in space thing)

Factorio is about building automation and transportation with a hint of tawer defence and a competition about how many rockets you can send to space (and burning down a forest in the name of progress )

And then it was going to be about space traveling.

And then it wasn't.

Bummer.

No space platform before the 1.0 release. This doesn't mean no space platform ever.

Cool, must have missed that info.

Also, dota-like team-based multiplayer confirmed for next update, yes?

[Ringkeeper]

I see a lot of people talking about your own base burning. I think steel and concrete don't burn very well.
I'd imagine burning trees nearby might do damage to buildings, but I don't see how your own buildings would burn.

High voltage equipment finds a way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noJOuoQyRIs

well, thats because the transformators are filled with oil for cooling purpose. And that, natural , burns as hell

[Drury]

I see a lot of people talking about your own base burning. I think steel and concrete don't burn very well.
I'd imagine burning trees nearby might do damage to buildings, but I don't see how your own buildings would burn.

High voltage equipment finds a way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noJOuoQyRIs

well, thats because the transformators are filled with oil for cooling purpose. And that, natural , burns as hell

Exactly.

You can't just look at a metal building and say "well this can't catch fire ever" - there can still be flammable stuff inside.

[Fatmice]

I really do wish we could at least replant some trees...maybe as way to appease the natives?

[Ojelle]

But i want to build my space station in factorio and do some space traveling

There's a game for that - it's called Space Engineers! also - try farlight explorers (for the factory in space thing)

Factorio is about building automation and transportation with a hint of tawer defence and a competition about how many rockets you can send to space (and burning down a forest in the name of progress )

And then it was going to be about space traveling.

And then it wasn't.

Bummer.

No space platform before the 1.0 release. This doesn't mean no space platform ever.

Jippieeeeee!

Looking forward to those.
And somehow my base is getting les then 60fps again. Snif. Well, I don't care about the fps but about ups, but those are always the same as far as I can tell. (now avg of 40/40 with drops to 30/30). Its a pretty big base dough (I think). (1.4GW electricity, produces about 10k iron/min)

[deemer]

So many great ideas about fire. Here's my ideas:

1) A forest fire should not destroy rails or walls, but it may damage them a bit. That gives the player a way to protect most of their base from accidents.
2) As someone else mentioned, fire spread should be biased in the direction of wind.
3) I think the fire should spread more slowly than in the FF, perhaps by a factor of two. That would give a quick player a chance to create a firebreak, perhaps with bots.
4) With another way to destroy trees, we need a way to plant them. Even just a seed/sapling entity that grows into a tree in, say, 40 game-days assuming no pollution. Get seeds/saplings from grown trees somehow.
5) Burning down a forest should make a huge pollution bloom.
6) Oil well fires!
7) Coal field fires!
8) A fire suppression device to deal with 6 and 7.

[Drury]

2) As someone else mentioned, fire spread should be biased in the direction of wind.

Looking at the gif, this already seems to be the case. The smoke leans to the left, and the fire seems to spread much faster in that direction.

[RobertTerwilliger]

Usually every forest has some kind of end.. and it is your decision to set a big forest on fire

No, no, no, I meant mechanics that allow to make "careful" burning - say, at healthy forest you could make a bit firing here and there just to clear some small areas - fire will spread, but will go out eventually. But if you keep raining fire on trees (say, 3-5 seconds on single spot, or few spots somewhat close to each other) - the fire spreading will result in chain reaction and eventually whole forest will burn out.
I mean, you shouldn't burn the world in a single match (unless it's very dry, e.g. desert dead grow). Also it'd be somewhat OP to easily burn forest natives' bases.

With another way to destroy trees, we need a way to plant them

Must admit, it's a huge temptation to be able to guard yourself with a forest to reduce natives' annoyance. However it is very cool mechanics so we have to carefully treat nature if we don't want it striking back hardly, because it will never forgive us all that devastation. Kind of

[Sinnersaix]

i want to set the world on fire O_O

[themightygugi]

Please do NOT remove the green inserters!!!!

Even though there might be an overlap in functionality, the green inserters provide a very easy an convinient way to express simple logic without having to connect anything.

Also, I will probably break a lot of the Inserter mods which fill a huge gab in factorio. The amount of inserters currently, does not allow for enough flexibility when designing the factory layout.

[Drury]

i want to set the world on fire O_O

I disagree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l6vqPUM_FE

Maybe we could start a











flamewar?

[Carble]

Alternatively what you could do with the tree is to leave the gui as it is now, and when the user clicks on a research, all the required researched are highlighted a new color, like blue or something. Then we could see all the required researches without needing a brand new graphics

[Tallinu]

Out of curiosity, what is the exact significance of the number 111 in the "without crafting more than X items" achievement? It seems like an odd number to choose.

[ProphetofEden]

YES THE FIRE TURRET THIS IS WHAT WE NEEDED BURN LITTLE BUGS

[jockeril]

Out of curiosity, what is the exact significance of the number 111 in the "without crafting more than X items" achievement? It seems like an odd number to choose.

Might be a homage to Fallout 4



or just a number they came up with