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imajor wrote:Even if I just want to play a single game, I feel that the map has no real meanings, it is just a flat area (except for water, if you don't use landfill). Making the map features more important would also improve replayability, so I would vote for that.

It's true. A lot could be accomplished with more terrain types (mountains, swamp, jungle, ice, ...) that actually had an effect on your game-play, and some interesting map generation algorithms.

Elevation is tricky to get fun in a 2D-game. Maybe something for Factorio 2.

imajor wrote:Even if I just want to play a single game, I feel that the map has no real meanings, it is just a flat area (except for water, if you don't use landfill). Making the map features more important would also improve replayability, so I would vote for that.

I'm the exact opposite. I see landscape features, including lakes as a huge annoyance, a hindrance to my desire to plan and build my factory as I want it, and so I'm very keen on mods such as the Landfill one that gives me the power to remove obstacles and hindrances.

Maybe it can be combined, with more actual equipment and consumables, and maybe even veichles for terraforming work. I use landfill, but it's a bit trivial for my taste.