There is nothing to manage except pasting blueprints every now and then. In the current state resources and energy are no-brainers once you are at the stage where you actually deploy bots en masse. One thing that is scarce but missing from the comparison is "player time". You can only mak...

Hopefully nobody's posted this particular thing, but I haven't read the whole 40+ pages on this FFF or the previous FFF. This chart (recreated for easier comparison) was posted , where the three main transport methods shown in a balanced version of the game, with three niches: comparison-incomplete-...

Personally, I think liquid-burning should be for the vehicles only, with a separate type of train to keep it easier to put into the game, easier for new players, and easier to balance. Solid fuels should only be burnable by power plants and trains. one thing i don't like is the idea of putting barre...

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Doing this one at a time is very tedious.

I'm surprised this wasn't discussed more. (Maybe there was another thread earlier in the last year?) 2xN reactors are boring! Originally, reactors were going to not only encourage unique setups (like proposed here), but also have cooling towers, and partially-heated water or steam to get more effici...

I haven't read the full 22 pages, so hopefully I'm not repeating what somebody else said... The death of filer inserters - While we're at it, let's get rid of filter inserters and stack filter inserters. Let those be unlocked from the same tech upgrade that filter inserters are given to us. There is...

Unless you stay on coal/oil power, Factorio isn't really structured to have electricity "cost" anything. Oil is also infinite - pumpjacks slow down over time, but never run out, unlike ore patches. Even the regular ores are technically infinite, since the game world is also infinite, but ...

As for no other wildlife... long story short, game performance. The game could have visual-only wildlife, that doesn't interact with the rest of the world. e.g. Birds (or their shadows) which would basically act like clouds - they look pretty, but don't interact with the world. Next cheapest would ...

You can also use fluid wagons on trains, to get electricity to remote locations without having to spam big electric poles everywhere.

I think a better solution would be "suggested maps" for new players to start on. I agree with this. Would be pretty easy to put in the game too - there's pre-set maps for the missions, so you could have pre-set maps for new players to choose from. As a more experienced player, I would fin...

Wind-powered pumps. 3x3 size, cost a bunch of gears, iron, and bricks, and have an old-timey windmill on the top.

Personally, I don't really care about the cost of chests when I'm setting up my base. A steel chest costs about the same amount of metal as a MK II assembly machine, but I've got ten times less chests than assembly machines. The cost of the chest is nearly nothing compared to the rest of my base. So...

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You can already just use the deconstruciton planner (aka "redprint") for this, and there's other things the devs could be spending time on.

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From my own experience, and your responses, it seems like what most people do is just leave this toggle either ON or OFF most of the time, and only briefly toggle it the other way. Regardless of what the default is, I think this means that having a keyboard shortcut is unneeded - it could just be a ...

+1, manually setting autotrash to 0 every time is annoying

English means "English", not specifically "American English", so avoiding American specific words According to Dictionary.com, lumber is from the 1500s , and timber is from the 900s . Both of which predate the United States by more than a century. These are totally acceptable En...

I don't think there would be enough room in the size of the icons, to show this type of distinction. The current colors work, and fit.

In my experience, you only build a lot of trains if they're unfiltered trains that do bulk cargo transport, and the trains with filtered cargo slots are one-off trains for a specific task.

I'd rather have time spent on other features in the game.
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Doesn't the game already give you the information for what's on a belt-piece? I've got this info showing up for me right now, on some belt I placed to test this.