I feel like the big issue is that the victory ship is essentially useless once you "win", as you need a completely different design for prometheum farming. Just getting to solar system edge grants no benefits at all (and whether prometheum science is exciting or not is also a bit of a ques...

At least there's new concrete recipe that finally doesn't need iron ore. If only refined concrete could also be like this.

It's solveable by the player though. Have the platform in a state where it must not unload :) You can achieve that by setting a schedule from Nauvis (unload checked, wait condition science packs < 200) to Nauvis (unload not checked, wait condition science packs > 200). Only works with stationary pl...

A reminder that these are for the first time players first and foremost — I guess Wube noticed that too few people were playing the demo / tutorial scenarios first, and instead jumping straight into freeplay ? I have my doubts that they are all that beneficial for new players either. And not convin...

I thought it will touch more on gameplay aspects when I saw the title. Biggest gripe is I really feel like we should be able to set minimum payload size for orbital drops so that it doesn't send 1000 pods of 1 science over just sending 5 pods with 200 science or so. And contrariwise the rockets deli...

Yea, I also agree that often times trigger tech introduced more friction than benefit for me, like having to extract oil before building refineries and so on. Especially when you need to do a specific thing on a different planet like with nuclear reactor research. If you want steam turbines, you nee...

I just finished the game. And let me start off by saying that I loved Aquilo. The heating mechanic causes you to revisit how you do a lot of things instead of just being a copy&paste from previous planets. All planets do this in some way or another, but Aquilo is best at it. And I love that. HO...

Aquilo doesn't sit right for me. I liked all other planets, even Gleba, but with Aquilo there's several things that rub me the wrong way. First of all, some annoyances: - 5x bot energy drain means that building anything with bots becomes much slower, as they drain even a pretty decent suit (Q3 mech ...

Oh, found another anomaly. Is there a particular reason why railgun shooting speed needs cryo science, and railgun damage does not, and needs agri science instead?

I'm at Aquilo currently, and across my playthrough I had some friction with trigger techs, and some dependencies in the tech tree that do not make for smooth game experience. First of them is oil. I'm not a fan that you need to mine oil first before you can do anything with it. It's a minor thing, b...

No need to bring up Star Citizen lol, that's the whole other story. Also, in what games spaceships are "much more unrealistic" and what metrics are you using? Factorio space platforms strictly speaking don't even go anywhere, there's no 3D or even 2D space they navigate. How is that more r...

I do find platforms a bit of a weak side of the DLC. Building a functional platform is interesting enough, but the whole aspect of space travel feels rather underwhelming. I don't even mean realism, I didn't expect it to be realistic at all, but I think even if we had some animations for departure/a...

doktorstick wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2024 12:01 pm To jumpstart it. Same reason why in the north, we plug in our cars even though the engine gets hot enough to sustain itself once running.

Engines are a bit different from electric heaters. They have a lot of mechanical components, friction, lubricants and so on. Heater could be just a coil.

In my games, I usually ended up with solid-trains that were two engines and four wagons, and liquid-trains that were only two or even one wagon long. The fluids were always more dense, for the recipes. I even did far away nuclear-steam-powered outposts, with a single solar panel to jump-start them ...

That's a good and valid sentiment, but making them more difficult by way of a completely full pipe magically being unable to provide even a trickle after 250 tiles feels just ass. To be frank, as a nerf to flamethrowers that's just not going to work. They are so powerful for reasons unrelated to re...

If the same approach was used in relation to trains. Old train network was not intuitive and sometimes frustrating to work with, especially when it comes to signals. It also can cause deadlocks which are hard to visualize and debug. So we decided to remove moving trains, and train network now just t...

You don't need to pump directly from a fluid wagon into a tank any more, you can just place pipes and put your tank elsewhere. So you can very easily use three fluid wagons on one side of a train. In hindsight I should not have used my 0.17 base to demonstrate these features. That was a mistake. I ...

I looked at several vanilla megabases and none of them even came close to needing 12k/s. Because of how the old system worked, even placing a single pipe entity would halve the throughput to 6k/s, and placing more would make it even lower. You only need quality pumps if you are trying to feed quali...

I just wanna say LOL at all the people who are crying over this new system and now defending the old system. "It's a little quirky but can be managed." The old system literally doesn't work. Random machines get starved. Pipes randomly stop flowing. And they're sensitive to placement order...

I think a lot of commenters are conflating realism with good game design and I would argue against that. If I wanted realism, I’d get a job as a process engineer. I think a lot of people conflate the dislike of this design as wanting realism, while I don't think many actually presented it this way....