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This is a great ...

Thanks. I greatly appreciate your taking the time to consider and respond.

to the exclusion of any useful purpose

I'm not sure where you got that idea from. I already said my original intention was to build a forum related to the game. Minecraft forums and wiki are both on separate, community-maintained sites, for example.

I'm trying to put the domain to a useful ...

I registered the domain factorioforum.com back in 2013 when the game was fairly new. I played Factorio quite a bit back then and had planned to start up a forum related to the game. I haven't had the chance to do anything with the domain yet, and I didn't realize this main forum would still be ...

Definitely interested. I'm really quite good at single player. How do I join your multiplayer?

The simplest way would be to have a building which is not solid to the player, or cars, but solid to enemies. It builds a forcefield, which disappears when collided with.

I think basic bridges are really simple. They just change the water into a square of brick, which is now passable. You just build them from stone bricks and place them.

Boats could be cars that can only go on water. And it would be cool if there was a hybrid vehicle that could go on both water and ...

With the belt example, there are a few simple solutions:

1) Damaged items are simply rebuilt as they were by default.

2) Belts are allocated to certain resources (one for each side). The AI knows that it needs a coal belt connection from the coal mining to the boilers. It compares prototypes for ...

I think the easiest and simplest way is to allow a 2x2 storage facility, which is crafted from 5 steel chests + 5 steel and stores 5 steel chests worth of items.

Things go to and from it with inserters.

The build time/process time is important to know how many of each machine I need in a process step to create an optimal machine.

A productivity module 1, for example, says 'Time: 30' above the circuits and advanced circuits required. It also has a raw material time icon with 107.5. Neither of these ...

On the last Friday Facts, it was stated that it was unknown how chests would be improved.

I think it would be good to reuse the logistic robot interface, both for consistency, and because it would save development time.

To give an example, you would click on a chest and a screen would pop up with ...

So I lately found this really handy secret feature which you can use to quickly fill up chests, ovens, etc...

If you put a resource (like an ore) in the quickbar (which you have to do manually, Ctrl wont work for that), then switch to that item and hold Ctrl, it inserts into whatever you click on ...

I have not seen this before. In the game I am playing right now that I just started, the ores don't appear on the minimap.

You can see below:

I have noticed in a few places that random items have been deposited in some of the requester chests.

It's always a multiple of 4, and usually a very small number. They're all items that I have at one point requested. My theory is that when logistic robots have no requests for the item they are ...

Can you make iron ore spawn overtop of other ores? ie Change the order when the map generates new areas. There's probably a way to do this without rendering current maps obsolete.

It really decreases the amount of iron relative to other ores, especially when I increase the ore's frequencies, as I ...

I think you summed up quite nicely some of the other reasons for more spread out factories, including being able to drive around and leaving space for railway lines later. The main reason I like to have a spread out factory is so that I have space to expand sections and add additional conveyer lines ...

I have an idea for a suit that allows you to move faster. It simply increases the walking speed, so you can get around faster in tight spaces and with the same control of walking.

There is no legitimate reason I can think of to not have a small space around all the buildings so you can freely move, with the exception of walls which are designed for the express purpose of blocking passage. (And I feel those badly need gates.)

Right now I spend a good chunk of time stumbling ...

My understanding is that the map stores the amount of only one resource. It would be cool to store the amount of every resource separately, but obviously it would take 4 times as much memory to store the map.

My current playing experience has been mining everything fairly evenly as I move around ...

Iron is used about 2-4 times as commonly as all the other ores (especially when you consider steel), and yet there is less of it on average, because the other ores are generated afterwards.

1) It would be great if iron was generated last, overtop of all the other ores.

2) Some sort of modification ...