The process of production engineering is never talked about as being "epic" or "legendary" unless someone is being ironic for comedic effect, although certain massive machines or plants can be described as "epic" in scale. I've literally included examples of components...

Centrifuges are about to reach completely new level of graphical inappropriateness, with all that potential crafting speed increase...

but I can assure you that real-life production engineering is rarely "epic" and never "legendary" ;) Don't tell this to real-world engineers or (lest gods save you) blacksmiths. The latter can give you a hammer for that. To catch. It coincides that our family does have some back...

Anybody else get the impression the DLC is very lite on actual new items-Machines etc. If I recall high quality items. Lava ore. Cobalt. A new belt tier. Space platform. Raised Tracks. Less then 10 new machines-space platform. Foundry. Heavy Miner. I saw a rocket turret yesterday. 4 Planets. And AL...

Async saving is one of those oddball things that seems like it's a workaround to a bigger problem. If saves were barely noticeable then why even bother to put the effort in for a feature that 1% of 1% of the userbase uses? Why not work towards a solution that helps all users? Different users might ...

That blue fuel cell looks suspicious as hell.
Cold fusion based reactors confirmed?
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Each removed redundant dependancy makes my factory work faster...

I agree that my first and foremost problem is getting more oil (and getting big guns for that), but from what I read its a inexplicable hard problem already to evenly fill multiple fluid wagons. Not necessarily. Do note that the man which started this discussion is crash testing liquid physics mech...

I'll die to dehydration from all the drooling over FFF teased features well before expansion release.
Too much cool stuff.

To install Factorio on Steam, you need to install Steam first, for starts. For pure stand-alone Factorio it's just "unzip and go". If your preferred way of using software is "unzip and go", you have very special interpretation of convenience :D I do and I'm tired of pretending t...

It's understandable that this exists, but I do also play fighting games and know that they implement a technology called rollback netcode. Well, and Decentraland and some other building games implemented blockchain. But it doesn't mean that everything needs blockchain. In fighting games, you care a...

Steam doesn't do anything but take a cut of your money. That's simply not true. After you bought a game, steam provides the steam cloud for shared saves. It provides a one-click-install process and keeps the game up to date. It provides installers for decades - even long after the original game web...

This FF issue is hotter than my last ex-gf.

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Sat Dec 23, 2023 9:36 am

How is this an issue with the game? Seems like good game design, giving players problems they can overcome with creativity.

Exactly!

True but that is not telling the maximum throughput for a rail lane, i think rather how many inserters you need to unload such throughput. But that is a minimum as in games trains are not always unloading, sometimes they move into the unloading stations Exactly. There's no point in minmaxing train ...

o_o That's nice one!
I believe it would make more sense in a form of dedicated "dump truck" like wagon though.
(seems perfect for transporting single type of items in bulk, as in real world)

Why ? Past the very early game, adding new labs to consume more flasks in parallel is cheap and easy. The consequence is that reseach speed per flask doesn't matter much: you can research almost as fast as you want by adding more labs to research in parallel. The real bottleneck, what really matter...

TL;DR The recycler shouldn't be introduced since it forces a cap on productivity bonuses, which go against the very nature of "the factory must grow" I'm under impression that Recycler introduction is not the most pressing matter to which Productivity cap attends to... We don't know enoug...

Does anyone have a formula for the maximum throughput of a rail line? Hot take: Purely speed-derived train throughput means nothing if cargo is not being actually delivered anywhere. For usual cargo max throughput is 27.69 items per second per stack inserter working, in ideal case (12 inserters) it...

About 2 seconds after release, a mod will come out moving cliff explosives back to earlier in the tree. + mod that tailors Quality naming to particular tastes, + mod which will allow switching to old Drone logics. Maybe more. I don't think that it's a sign of some problem with the game design. I th...

[*]Fixed bad pumpjack drain logic related to yield. (https://forums.factorio.com/110005) Didn't knew that oil spills rich enough can have more than 2/s yield minimum. Good to know! (might come handy for making dedicated Legendary fuel factories in the future...) The minimum is being calculated usin...