Recommend taking those map settings, making them into a scenario and then having a scenario specific behavior for biter which sees them landfill slowly towards the player (and later you can use shallow water). This would be mod agnostic as the scripts can be in the scenario. After 0.17 is out, ther...

That's the graph theory approach. Based on full physics, I'd expect resistance and inertia to at least put them closer together, though I'm being too lazy to do the math right now.

Next none of the sources or drains are constant. They produce or consume a set volume in a single tick and then pause. So there never is balance point to reach. I'm not sure that assumption is necessarily valid. Assembler progress each tick is already dependent on the amount of power satisfaction t...

On the one hand, I think the aquaduct/open channel approach fits the game better than a pressurized pipe system. Pressurized pipes end up too close to the electrical system for my liking. That may be realistic, but is it fun? On the other hand, I think behaviour should match visualization. Current v...

I'm sure a physicist will be along shortly to tell me how wrong I am. Sorry about that ;) No really you were not wrong, but that speed of sound thing applies to the case where the pipes are always filled with no air holes. This may be a bit more realistic, but makes the pipes rather boring to watch...

The main issue I see is a very low reaction speed. That's a real thing; If I remember correctly it's related to the speed of sound in the liquid. Looking at the nearest neighbours on the previous tick gives you a speed of 60 tiles per second. Google gives me real speeds of 1000-1500 m/s for common ...

@vxsote, isn't flow speed limited by the speed of sound in the fluid in question?

Oktokolo wrote:I don't think, there is anyone in the "worm attacks should not be dodgeable" camp.

I suspect player position is not kept sufficiently synchronized to allow for dodging attacks.

I assume that's units of weight of hydrogen? Since hydrogen is a gas even at cryogenic temperatures, you'd have to compare it by volume instead. Which puts its energy content below propane even before you consider that propane liquefies under reasonable pressure.

I have more interest in implementing Deep Water Sites, which cannot overbuild with landfill and you have to build (much more expensive) bridges instead. On the bridges should only railtracks and electricpoles be allowed to build, no assemblers or similar stuff And belts. And probably rail signals? ...

If nowhere else, I'm sure shallow water could be used in custom campaigns (made in the improved map editor).

It's good to have nuclear fuel more accessible, but I don't think Kovarex needs the love. Nuclear fuel reprocessing does. It's too easy to skip reprocessing because it's expensive and simply doesn't give any U235. What good is a tech that gives you more U238 when the stockpiles are already overflow...

Considering the escape pod, it could also be campaign-only, and have freeplay not have a victory condition at all.

The functionality of automatic blueprint library sharing in multiplayer is removed. The "shared blueprints" panel is removed. Blueprints and blueprint books in multiplayer will be shared by manually trading the items or by linking them in the chat. Blueprints or books linked in the chat c...

(2-2).(2^(2^2)).((2+2*2*2)^2)/2 :) WOW! That was really a nice calculation. You are looking at everything in the form of binary(2). Are you from Matrix? :D Wrong assumption leads to wrong answer :) I am not sure what does this mean. (2-2)=0 (2^(2^2))=2^4=16 ((2+2*2*2)^2)/2=((2+8)^2)/2=(10^2)/2=100/...

ske wrote:In a 3D-game however I assume that the requirements on a good terrain are much much higher and an automatic generator would probably fail badly.

Having only one map will eventually cause them problems as well, mainly for replayability. Supporting custom maps may help.

Quite apart from whether satisfactory could simulate and render a megabase, I am unsure on whether it offers the tools to build one. If there are no blueprints, or terrain is too irregular to deploy them at scale, building a megabase will get quite impractical.

chris13524 wrote:Also, next to the seed, there is a...shuffle button? I guess that's OK if you think about it enough, but perhaps the circular arrow would be better?

Circular arrow means reload, which makes some sense. How about a pair of dice, or is that too icony?

If the premise is a colonization ship which broke apart, you could explain existing factory structures as being provided by the ship. For example, an unmanned pod successfully landed and established a small mining outpost with train station.

Would it make sense to change things so you don't need production science to launch the rocket?