Factorio confessions

[Mskvaer]

I just (re-)discovered the selective train loading feature, ie limiting a wagon filling only n-slots of a particular item so one wagon becomes a buffet of items. It's called Filtered Stacks (The wiki is a bit vauge about it, and I can't see a tutorial/hint in the game)

[mmmPI]

I think you can play the game wrong ! I have to confess, this idea grew on me, at first i thought there would be no wrong way to play, you know, as long as you have fun, but then i realized by reading some review that some player put themselves in a situation where it's a challenge to "beat the game" and get disappointed when they can't.

In such situations there are things that appears as "DOs" and "DON'T" to me, things that are "wrong" , that are adding unnecessary difficulty or tedium or repetitive task and should be avoided.

[The Phoenixian]

Ever since the pipe rework, my power plants have been growing slowly more and more unhinged.

At first it was linking up dense clusters for substation access. Then it was separating the boilers from the generators entirely to put the center of the pollution cloud in another section of the base.

My latest power plant is a set of several hundred steam turbines un Vulcanus. In the lava rivers. In sets of 20. Foundations have not been unlocked. I did not even notice a good chunk of the substations were disconnected from the main grid for several dozen hours.

It is an abomination.