Ok I'll do some proper tests later to either showcase the problem or withdraw my case.

To fill up a certain amount of water with land, it is currently the cheapest to use a filling size (+/-) of 1x1; using bigger sizes (2x2, 3x3, ...) will cost more for the same area. Furthermore the total cost also depends on the order in which the area is filled. I think a solution where cost is pro...

Hellatze wrote:metal is matter of perspectives.

How is that? You mean like out of the perspective of someone who never made it past 3rd grade?

featherwinglove wrote:It's missed a lot, but silicon is also a metal.

No it isn't.

I think you are judging the game based on a very minor detail. OTTD is a great game (not necessarily a great train physics simulator though). There are some key differences between Factorio and OTTD. OTTD has stations with several platforms, and trains don't stop at a designated platform. They can s...

The premise is false, gold is not a good conductor at all. Does that mean that wikipedia is incorrect? Maybe I didn't phrase it clearly, I didn't mean to say that gold is an isolator or bad as a conductor per se, but rather that it is a very bad choice as a conductor. It is is very hard to extract ...

The premise is false, gold is not a good conductor at all. The only reason why gold is used in some PCBs (in trace amounts) is to protect copper contacts from corroding. With the inclusion of copper, this game already has one of the best conducting materials there is (there are better ones, but they...

To a small degree, this is already in the game: higher level assembly machines create much less pollution per item they produce, compared to their predecessor.

Really don't get what the general problem with pollution is supposed to be, for the most part, the current system makes perfect sense to me. What of the following is supposedly illogical? Aliens getting antagonized by pollution, causing them to attack Aliens reacting to pollution by developing towar...

I think the title and screen shot should be self explanatory. This is also the name that is visible on the map.

How did you even get that picture with the progress bar? I was wondering about the absence of these bars but assumed that labs now no longer have these progress units but rather contribute to the overall research progress with every tick. I actually measured the effect of productivity modules and ca...

I use German keyboard settings (QWERTZ). I have Rotate assigned to Y. In Windows, this works correctly by pressing the key with the printed Y on it (lower left). In OSX however, Y and Z are mixed up (in Factorio), so I need to assign Rotate to Z in order to have it work with the Y key. Normally, thi...

If you are overbuilding solar panels and accumulators to handle unexpected power spikes, the best ratio to overbuild them is 0.84. :P Nah, ideal ratios aren't constant independent of consumption distribution over time. The ratio becomes much more favorable for accumulators the shorter and higher th...