Open loop designs could still be entirely feasible as the player's first nuclear reactors. I mean, that's how steam engines already work. Input hot water, electricity gets produced, the water gets exhausted to the environment. With the current nuclear reactor plans, the only addition is heat pipes f...

Count me among the people disappointed that steam and water cooling towers are being axed from nuclear power. It was an aspect of design and management that I was looking forward to play with. Also, I like the idea of reactors needing careful management, lest they cause damage. A 1x1 nuclear reactor...

Resources I would include in raw resources are: [*] Iron plates [*] Copper plates [*] Plastic [*] Coal [*] Steel [*] Others I'm possibly forgetting" Strictly speaking, wouldn't raw resources be iron ore, copper ore, stone, water, crude oil, and raw wood? These resources can be produced by no m...

Biters migrate from existing bases to new positions. So, since the interior is clean, it will remain clean forever more.

I agree with the removal of the alien artifacts, but I definitely want the Biters to STAY around. KEEP THE BITERS. They add a sense of challenge and fun to the game. I think the biters need to be improved with: more types/variety more progression (more levels of difficulty, might be somewhat relate...

On infinite research...I'm generally against the idea. It's true that it's a resource sink, and the game does need more of those, but anything like bullet damage and such has effects on combat balance, potentially making it entirely trivial after a while. What I'd prefer to see are more scoring item...

(Preface: all of this applies before blueprints are used) All of the inserters craft nearly instantly. With a mod like HandyHands, there really is no need to make an inserter production chain for building. Also, a single assembly plant 2 assembler can sustain building for a good long while. Maybe t...

I'm not sure I'd necessarily agree with more powerful radar. Having used the Big Brother mod, I've discovered that revealing too much territory can play havoc with the biter expansion behaviour. What could stand to changed is the random nature of the scanning. Right now, on an already-scanned area,...

Are the new science pack recipes set in stone? I ask this because the High Tech science pack puzzles me. It already has 3 PUs which contain a total of 240 copper cables and a speed module which contains 49 copper cables, then you have to add another 30 additional copper cables. Is that just to have...

I like the idea of logistics trains. The only thing I'd like to add is the idea of telling the whole train that it's an iron train, or a copper plate train, or an electric/advanced circuit train. Setting each stack filter in every wagon sounds like it would be very tedious.

Hm. What does Klonan say? I suppose it doesn't hurt to see more pages... this is 2016 after all... I will look at maybe increasing it to 20, depending on what the server statistic shows for the last couple months I'm curious about why this is a server setting, rather than a user configurable settin...

This is one of those situations where two different sets of behaviors can be both expected and desirable. For example, if I want to make 20 inserters and 20 long-handed inserters, the current behavior means that I can be reasonably sure that I'll end up with both, rather than the later long handed i...

To clarify, it's not about automatically researching all technologies. It's about automatically queuing the prerequisite technologies for one particular technology. If I want, say, Automation 2, I'd like to be able to tell the game to research that, and if I don't have Electronics, it will automatic...

Since Factorio can read a tech tree and display, it seems reasonable to me that you should also be able to select a late tech, and have the game automatically queue all unresearched prerequisites. For example, if you wanted to research Follower Robot Count 5 and only researched up to Follower Robot ...

If that's the case, should the concrete also be placed? It seems to me that only one of two things should happen. Either 1) the concrete is placed, or 2) the GUI is opened. The fact that both happens seems odd.

If you watch inserters taking items from a belt that's using both lanes, you'll see that an inserter takes a little longer to grab an item from the near side of the belt. This is because it needs to retract a little to reach those items. Now, I don't know if they were designed that way for a reason,...

Regular inserters also have a niche in this system, for those situations where throughput doesn't matter and you have power.

Out of curiosity, what happens when a rapid inserter tries to move items that have a stack size less the inserter's stack bonus? Like, say, roboports? Will it move when it has a full stack of roboports, or will it wait until it has as many roboports as its stack size will allow? Also, what happens w...

I don't envy the dev team the challenges of making the trains the same length in both directions. Whatever solution they come up with is still going to be a compromise... And to be honest, I much prefer the loader. It has clear uses in high throughput situations, while not being useful for loading o...

I like a lot of what I've read in this update, but there's one thing I'm curious about. Will trains be able to make decisions about which stations to visit without the player having to manually assign all of them? IE, if I want my trains to ship iron, can I tell them to visit stations that have a su...