Episode 10 is now up.

I run into some problems with my factory layout. Quite a few issues to solve. Mostly because of my initial spawn (being nearly ontop of a small lake) my factory has kinda grown around it, making routing resources interesting So a fun episode in all.

Is there a possibility to create scripts which generate some attacks by aliens? If you can make a mod then certainly. Factorio seems to be very moddable. Personally I think the end game should just be: 1. BUild rocket defense 2. Every biter on the planet gets called to the location you just built 3...

So does that mean we have to choose one or the other? Do yourself a favor and just stay away from steam. Then can sell to others there but that doesn't mean it is something you need. I know I really don't want someone tracking what I do in a game, how long I play it etc. etc. You may be right about...

Ah I see. They must be connected somehow. Either that or a bug. I daresay its a connection somewhere that you're not seeing. I'm afraid beyond that I'm not going to be much more help, we'll need someone more knowledgable to help with that. It may be that steam engines connect when placed side by sid...

When you don't have enough water (or its not hot enough), your steam engines will draw water faster to try and compensate. So yeah, water wasn't hot enough therefore it was drawing the water faster to try and get the production out of the steam engines. No sense in adding another pipe if your water...

DerivePi wrote:no dice. Can you recommend a file server for use?

I reckon Dropbox could do it?

Came here expecting game suggestion, was pleasantly surprised and not at all disappointed

Here: This pump is connected to 10 steam engines. Why only 0.5 water??? Looks like your steam engines are drawing more water than that lonely pump can supply. When you don't have enough water (or its not hot enough), your steam engines will draw water faster to try and compensate. Try adding more p...

So I'm doing a factorio playthough. Check out the playlist here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-7ICWbZUDjmBkUdFGh1CxxN0gn9oL0aY Be sure to comment on the video or in this thread with what you think or if you have tips/hints on how I could do things better :) I'll post each episode as I rele...

i think that might be because there is always a problem to solve. The great thing is these new problems normally arise from your solutions to other problems.

Ok, rookie question. How do you disconnect the poles?

Thats a huge island or you didn't scout, either way; post pics, this i've gotta see

Actually, I would be much happier with them being like ant. In other word, not having a strange and artificial overlord, but having each being individually a bit smart, and the intelligence emerging from that. I like this idea more than the overlord one... Gives much more potential for one lone bit...

Not sure speed is the point of this factory, rather perfect efficiency with no waste. If speed is what you are going for, you end up with what we all build anyway and thats massive chains of factories just churning out the products as fast as machinely possible. Mal mentioned in his video the idea w...

Not bad :D What I'd like to see is one of these factories covering the entire build chain that automatically resets and batches the correct materials regardless of what you take out when. It would take a huge amount of work to get it set up, but it would be awesome (and blueprinterable and therefore...

Probably oversight, this is alpha (albeit, an extremely complete and highly polished alpha compared to some other games). Ideally the computer core should be hidden inside a biter nest that you have to destroy before you can get it. The entire point of that mission is to practise military based cons...

carkasjak wrote: so the big bases are incredibly tedious to deal with.

Which may be a reason why players try to automate conquest through turret creep. I know i wouldn't feel bad about losing the ability to build near biter nests if I had some decent weapons to wipe them out with.

The third one you can do in under a minute. Kill the biter base around the crash, then do a leeroy jenkins right into the middle of the lower base and snag the computer core.

Turtle wrote:I used to play Transport Tycoon Deluxe (and later OpenTTD) a lot so I'm a bit familiar with layouts and signaling.

I was wondering about this... Looks like i'm going to be a freaking gun at trains

Cracking effort. Has anyone plotted out the most efficient research route?