The main point I have against the said proposal, is that the current system permits you to skip something, if you don't like it on most places. For example, I don't use nuclear, until I get kovarex. It just does not appeal to me to stockpile uranium in such high amounts. Or that I don't use trains,...

I appreciate the thoughts! Marathon and research cost definitely do slow things down, you both are absolutely right, which is the solution to one of the bigger issues I've had. I'll have to add Marathon Deathworld to the list of 'To-do', haha. I'm not fond of gating things behind artificial limitati...

TL;DR Change a significant number of techs to require a specific amount of in-game actions or uses before being researchable with science packs, ensuring progression is linked to what the player is actually doing. What? The Problem: Several items and tech tiers have extremely short periods of funct...

Thanks again for the help, Posila, and hopefully this will be helpful for anyone else who runs into struggles with laptop switchable graphics. I'll mark the topic as solved, Cheers!

Personally, I recommend that you disable your on board graphics through the BIOS. Most motherboards do it automatically if there is a graphics card installed unless the user specifies otherwise. I can help you if your motherboard is manufactured by Gigabyte since I enabled mine to run extra display...

Factorio 0.17.31 Despite extensive searching/testing, I cannot find out why it seems that my Factorio is FPS limited by my on-board graphics card, despite every effort to point it to the discrete Nvidia GPU (GTX 1060). I have reached the limits of my technical knowledge in trying to fix this issue t...