I've just recently starting playing and the only big issue I see with the game and balancing is how boring research is. It's not boring because you can't research cool stuff, but boring in that it's too easy. The first thing I decided to do once I figured out machines could assemble items is build a...

Thanks guys, I fixed my electricity and it's like a whole new game! It feels like I'm watching my factories in fast forward....then bad guys came for the first time as well. As far as one engine for my whole base, I think it would be common for new players to do this. You don't get any warnings and ...

Thanks for the tip! I'll add another power plant and see if it works again. Glad it isn't a bug.

In this shot here:

http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/469 ... C2E2E91DC/

The consumption has a small green bar and the production is a full green bar. Both say 510 kW after the bar. Is this how much out of 510 I'm using or?

I don't think this is a useless question at all! For instance if I were to create a single gear assembler for every red science I wanted, I would get a huge backlog of gears waiting for the science jar to get done since gears are fast and red jars are slow. Instead if I have one gear assembler and s...

Before the latest patch I had a system with fast inserters that would grab things off a moving belt when they needed them. Now it seems to just keep attempting to grab something as it moves by and the belt seems too fast for it to pick anything up.

Is this intended behavior?