Illiander42 wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2024 8:50 am Basically nothing except trains needs balancing anyway.

woha, woha, that is very bold statement. right in the beginning of a run you got 8 belts of iron ore. 4 go to steel smelting, 4 to plate smelting. now tell me you don't want an 8-8 balancer for that.

Getting metals from bacteria is just too easy. apart from the fact, that if there are no metals in the growth tank, then there also can be no metals in the bacteria.

Maybe bacteria can be pumped into deep layers of the planets rock where there are metals? then they slowly dissolve and eat the ...

FuryoftheStars wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 11:23 pm

Yes, you are right. I didnt even notice back then.

I have a stupid request:

Can you add water reflections? For buildings on water and close to the water?

Maybe with an option to disable them to reduce gpu/cpu strain.

Now, as bridges will be added to the game, this picture looks so weird:

https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/blog-sync/fff-403-manual ...

Love it! All of it.

It's all wrong! There's a reason why both cliffs and water follow height lines, and no reason why forests should leave convenient thoroughfares for the character's car.

That said, this garden will make a much better playground than untamed wilderness. Even if it poses the question of where the ...

Great stuff! These shots look far more atmospheric.

There is something I want to put forward to you, while you are working on planets and map generation: The availability of used map generation functions to mods.

For explanation a use case for version 1.1: Let's say I want to make a mod, that ...

Are you aware of the vanilla /open PlayerName command? It allows admins to open the inventory of any player, including offline players. It's what I use whenever someone leaves my multiplayer game with something important in their inventory.


I have not been aware of that. That is good to know ...

My opinion is, that wishes on a game are different and I absolutely respect that. My view is that the stuff I carry is not mine but borrowed from the team. I always put the stuff I carry in chests befor I leave, no matter if I plan to return or not.
Usually, when there is not enough of something in ...

I could add a kind of secret treasure map that would chart a chunk with a player corpse and tag the location in map view. This would make it easier to find hidden corpses, and it would give a further incentive to hunt for maps. :-)


Putting all corpses in the 0,0 chunk would definitely prevent ...

Thanks for your interest Pi-C!

The direct answer to your question is: No there should be no special action on player return or other player join.



The main goal behind my question is item preservation. There are two cases where items do get lost through inconsiderate player actions:

1) If items ...

Hello fellow engineers!

I have a problem when hosting a game. I assume its port randomization. I list everything I know.


The problem:

After starting to host a game, I get this popup in game:
"Unable to determine external IP address. Other players ..."


This is the relevant (I believe, after ...

In mp players often make their mk2 first then run a round a bit, then leave. mk2 and all stuff they have on them goes with them. I am looking for a mod that creates a corpse if a player leaves the game. I know such feature exists in redmew scenarios. But does a mod also exist? I could not find ...

Scenario:
- an unloading yard
- twin unloading train stops (same name, for higher throughput)
- a stacker, with enough parking space

Requirements:
- just 6 trains should jointly go to the two stops at any time (train limit)
- any train waiting in the stacker should go to any of the two stops that ...

Scenario:
- rail network
- a track section with a train stop in it
- several tracks merge into that track section and are separated from it by rail chain signals (the entrances)
- the track section with the train stop splits into several tracks, which are separated from it by a rail signal (the ...

...
I would like those features to be reduced to a level where it starts to make sense to use circuit networks ...


I wonder why you ask this. Do you want to impose a bigger challenge in vanilla on yourself? I mean, you can, as you explained yourself, use th CN to drastically improve the ...

How does this compare to a cloverleaf interchange?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloverleaf_interchange

Scenario:
- 1 unloading station, activated on demand when resources are low
- several loading stations, where loaded trains wait until the unloading station is activated.

Question:
- How does the game engine decide which waiting train goes to a activated train station?

RonenGreen wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2023 4:45 pm ive never played factorio... does it worth 40$ should i buy it?

What games did you play and what games did you like?

Respect!