The feeling I have is that the new train system is more complex than it was. Mind you, this is how I feel, because... well... I don't understand the system.

I have a refinery making fuel blocks. I have a train filled with those blocks and the intention is that this train supplies various outposts ...

So, I've been tinkering around in my cold molten salt/hot molten salt loop for my coal power plants and I removed the buffer tank from the cold molten salt part of the loop.

The salt volume seems more of less steady now. No significant loss of the molten salt in the closed loop.

Based on what I've ...

Some 350 hours in and started using the coal power plants and molten salt recipes.

However, it has now happened twice that the closed molten salt loop I created for the powerplants (Recipes show zero salt loss) that my salt buffer of around 8k (excl. 1k internal storage per power plant) has gone ...

My main concern with the post is that the developers opinion is leading to making Factorio less fun.

The strength of Factorio lies in the freedom to use or not to use certain blocks. Factorio offers options and it is up to me, the player, to utilize the options to how I personally see fit.

It's ...