It's nuanced. tl;dr cheating doesn't really make sense in Factorio, almost everyone wins even their first game. I would replace "cheating" with "interesting". You can use blueprints to ruin fun, but they don't inherently do so. Single player: Do what you want. Install a mod with ...

When playing in windowed mode on Windows (didn't test on linux, but I would guess it likely applies there too), clicking the close button in the top right will immediately close the game with no confirmation, discarding all progress since the last save. I've done this a couple of times by accident w...

Doesn't Klonan's train control signal mod (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Train_Control_Signals) already give you that with its depot stops?

Things about megabases I find interesting: 1) Can it hot start (shut down the labs, let everything back up, restart the labs, does it all start running properly again without player intervention?) I'm a bit confused by this. What would cause a base to fail to hot start? Apart from train deadlock or...

So I think you may be talking about auto-dependencies for hand-crafting. I counter-suggested just implementing manual, one-off logistics requests that reset once they are filled as a much easier to implement alternative, that has more use cases, and solves one of the issues that the people who want ...

... merely asking for them to display ... I think this is where we are talking across each other. To me that is not simple, for all the reasons I posted earlier. What format? What size? Will people be happy with the format and size the devs pick? "Just make it configurable" someone will s...

Yes in theory you can do one-shot requests with a requester chest, however: * What Blue Templar said. I have to stand still and wait for the bots to fill the chest, or I have to remember to come back later. * Requester chests come significantly later in the tech tree than personal logistics requests...

I'm not seeing why people want Factorio to reinvent the wheel. I'm not seeing why you think adding the time is reinventing the wheel, but ok.... Because there's already plenty of other tools which show you the time, and will do a better job at showing it to you how you want. 12 or 24 hour? Seconds ...

I'm not seeing why people want Factorio to reinvent the wheel. I'm not seeing why you think adding the time is reinventing the wheel, but ok.... Because there's already plenty of other tools which show you the time, and will do a better job at showing it to you how you want. 12 or 24 hour? Seconds ...

I think it would be much more in the spirit of the game, and useful in general, to have "one-shot" logistics requests which are deleted, or drop back to the regular amount, once satisfied. I'm usually requesting items to be able build stuff somewhere I don't have bot coverage, not to handc...

Definitely there in the GoG/standalone version, it's in the "Other" section. If anything, steam should be the version most likely to allow turning that off, as steam updates tend to be timely and automatic.

I'm not seeing why people want Factorio to reinvent the wheel. Find a clock overlay, have clock in every game. Set a timer or alarm on your phone/computer. Play maximised in windowed mode and the OS gives you a clock, Factorio isn't the type of game which will lose performance by running in windowed...

What? You mean my totally legit strategy of radar and power pole creeping to 3 chunks away from a nest, and then placing landmines in the nest, all from the safety of my base, is cheating? Or maybe I should be placing turrets and stocking them with ammo from the safety of my base, that sounds legit ...

Firstly, I'm assuming that anything that's useful at any point in an unmodded game is practical, some items just get obsoleted by the tech tree or infrastructure scale up. I consider items as impractical if they are already obsolete on arrival. Top of my list would be cannon shell & uranium cann...

The spider is totally disabled while riding, but keeps all its equipment and setings. You can load/unload from the map view. Let me know if there are any bugs/features you think are missing! I don't think the spidertron being disabled while loaded is a problem. Only played around a bit, a few minor...

Thanks for the mod link, sounds like it gives almost everything I asked for.

So this is probably too much work for the benefit, but thought I would post this as it would be cool and useful, even though it will probably be mercilessly shot down :) TL;DR Let a spidertron be transported by train What ? * Give spidertron the ability to climb on top of a wagon (possibly a new ded...

Reading this thread has been interesting. One thing I think that has been overlooked with gun turrets vs lasers regarding outposts, is resilience. Laser turrets at an outpost are vulnerable to biters chewing on your poles, Ah, but you see, this problem only weighs in on the equation if you have the...

... That's a valid point, but doesn't affect running cost (economy balance) that much, unless you also calculate rebuilding of outposts due to power outage Which I guess is where I'm not sure I accept the premise of this thread, which seems to be that all 3 turret types should be economically balan...

I'm a bit confused by some of the responses comparing AMs to handcrafting. Is anyone seriously saying that handcrafting is better than AMs, and that they have avoided automating because AMs are too slow compared to handcrafting? To state the obvious, AMs allow parallelisation, both of the same step...