I'm terrible with trains as well and I've launched 400+ rockets. I end up just wasting tracks and space by build tracks where I know I don't need them

The correct spelling is actually Messrs (and is not typically encountered very much at all in modern English, however it might be in some very formal contexts). An equivalent for a group of females would be Mesdames. Edit: I misread your question. So regard it as extra information. The correct femal...

This is certainly not a bug. Well, it is in a way, but not the way you think. Those "land fish" are the ancient ancestors of the biters. Through aeons of evolution the fish first ventured onto the land and then evolved into what we now call biters.

Those portable solar panels are a waste of time. The last two games I've played I've skipped them altogether and just did other stuff until I could build fusion reactor (my research facility is sufficiently fast that it doesn't take all that long and while I'm waiting I just build something that I'v...

That's a spelling error, not a grammatical error. Sorry, I couldn't help myself

BenSeidel wrote:Am I the only one that finds it disturbing that they are storing currencies as floating points?

I think you might be It's a game, not a financial application

Where's the centrefold?

It's a drug

I would be nice if more people did this. I might start expanding my hacky blueprint generator code.

I thought I was the only one who gets to a certain point and then destroys their whole factory and rebuilds it all. I'm glad to discover I'm not alone. I do it this way mainly because early game I don't always have the production resources required to make things as beautiful as I might like. I'm of...

[...] Feel free to suggest better and novel ways that we can change it, but please don't bash any of the devs for this system. I'm not sure anyone was bashing devs. I certainly wasn't and if it came across that way I apoligise. What I was questioning was the implementation, not a dev or any person ...

I think it's just not implemented correctly. I've done a lot of programming with perlin, simplex, fractal and other types of noise that can be "segmented" into chunks like factorio appears to do and honestly different seeds *do* end up generating completely different noise/terrain/whatever...

As the peer-to-peer network model is being removed, this is not needed anymore and every communication has it's own numbering, I've kept my mouth shut the first twenty times this happened in the blog and changelogs, but I can't anymore. Sorry for pedantry: Thanks for clearing that up! Its something...

Boolean operations are a mathematical formalism, and of course there are precendence rules. The formalism would be incomplete without them. Can you show me where these precedence rules are formalised? Because, quite honestly, (outside of programming languages) you generally use parenthesis to save ...

Radioactive Pretzels wrote:I like the details in the log file. As a developer, my own software doesn't give such great crash reports with not just the assert, but the callstack . Did you roll your own Logger.cpp or it based on some library?

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/111 ... -callstack

I really think this should be re-categorized as a bug. It's not a bug in the traditional sense but, IMO, it's certainly a kludge (and a fairly ugly and visible one at that). A better solution would be to leave the terrain generation as-is (without stamping a circle on top of it) and move the startin...

Surely there is a better solution than drawing a big circle

I didn't even know there was a formal precedence for boolean operations without using parenthesis (yes, of course there are in programming languages etc but these are convention rather than anything formal). That said, I would have assumed that in a game there would be some kind of rule and bottom t...

Many, many years ago I saw this demo on the Amiga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5kuYfTCGLg And I was 90% impressed because I was an Amiga demo coder and I could understand how it was done and visualize how I might reproduce it myself. Fast forward to today and I see this: https://www.youtube.com...

When I click on the video I see Unfortunately, this video is not available in your country because it could contain music from SME, for which we could not agree on conditions of use with GEMA. Well, I know how to go around such restrictions, but as moderator I need to ask, if you can upload it agai...