I just want to add big +1 to the pattern suggestion. I would also like it for when you hold soils in your hand - determining where you can use which is very painful and the pattern overlay would make it much less annoying.

From changelog:

Disabled the turret shooting alert by default.

The alert is disabled, I just tested it. But how do I re-enable it? I don't see anything in the interface settings or anywhere else. And wording of the changelog implies we should be able to enable it.

Yeah, current rail building is not ideal. But, instead of bringing in another mod (FARL), you remove options, which ruins rail building in the early game (especially in slow-research options like marathon / deathworld). Why ruin? Currently you can use planner in early game. Now you won't be able to ...

I really like suggestions of togglable-requests and "ephemeral" (rather temporary?) requests, those would be so helpful. Sorting for requests would be nice to have too.

And it's not clear to me what would be the default flow for setting logistic slot - would it automatically set autotrash value too ...

This is quite annoying bug for railworld maps Temporary stations is very nice addition, but when you are using them a lot, you encounter this bug like 3-8 times per hour.

... if the first 15 minutes of a game feels shitty, there is big chance that the player will not play any further.

A million people tried the demo, learned from the tutorial, and went on to buy the game.

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with the first 15 minutes and in my opinion the first ...

Can I suggest to call shallow water bogland or marsh? Then it makes more sense you can walk on it but not build on it.

An intuitive idea is to have two types of landfill:


Basic Landfill: makes water into bogland
Permeable Landfill: fills in all water and bogland

Basic Landfill would be ...

Proposal zero sounds like much better and thought through solution! Especially with regards to the library.

I would maybe add different "sheets" (think excel) to the library for organizational purposes, but that might complicate things.

I am using current blueprint system extensively, and it works great. Not big user of library (as I spend a lot of time on single map), and I guess its UI can be improved, but PLEASE don't mess with great blueprint system just because you added unpolished version of blueprint library!

Only proposal ...

Thanks for the playtime per commit / LoC / etc. statistic. It nicely highlights how awesome is work of programmer

the colors are looking very 'washed out' in the updated version. The saturation in the .15 images look way better. Obviously the pixel count looks much better in the new version but the colors (to me) take away from that stride forward and act as a step back.

I'm not a programmer or graphic ...

Please don't mess too much with expensive setting, rather fix the base settings disbalance.

I love Albert's party-related work, but otherwise I was disappointed. Fact_3011 said it better than I could have:
I am sorry to say that i don't particularly like any of the new designs. The old ones looked a lot more elegant to me. The new designs are functional, but far less interesting. Their ...

Fix: place more stations on the branches you wish to be not pass-through. (I use "_" as name for such stations)
Watch changelogs, it was one of the better and more discussed changes in the 0.15 threads.

Rant: wonderfully wrong solutions ITT :D I mean - obviously, the design is just wrong, but OP ...

I do believe though that modules have the effect of pushing the bias back towards iron for science packs, mainly because of copper wire, for the most part you can get +40% extra productivity on copper costs than iron costs, and also because of steel often being a final ingredient and gaining poorly ...

This forum needs +1 function so I can just +1 posts like the BlakeMW's one above.

Best advice is DO NOT USE LOOPS.

There are many people defending them vigorously, and if you'll work hard enough they are probably workable (possibly equal in limited systems), but I don't see (m)any benefits to them, and simple T-intersections (http://guide.factorio.com/img/51.jpg) and terminus ...

The only thing I dislike is the unbalance between iron needs and copper needs. I'm using iron like there's no tomorrow, while the first few smelters I set up for copper still cover my needs at all times. 20h into my game, I've used almost 4x as much iron as copper.
Tbh that's same as before, iron ...

Yay, a good idea for once.

+1!

Majority of players does not care about ratios tbh.

And since h2so4 and plastics are kind of mass produced general-purpose-oil-product, their ratios are even less important.

Or do you care about ratios of steel furnaces to anything?