I actually find it curious to see a new players progress, especially since he didn't start of all spaghetti like most of us. On the reddit you will find a lot of posts like these. Maybe not for u as a target audience, but you don't have to get offensive about it either To the OP: Please press ALT a...

Why do you use the letter signals for the items instead of the items themselves as signal (which would be much more intuitive)?

The root of the problem is "loops". If you have loops you can always find situations where you have trains fed into them up to a point where they block eachother. The straight tracks and left turns together form a closed loop where trains in principle could go-around forever. Or in other w...

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Yep. Possibly simply allow to add them to the blueprint books (in essence they're somewhat reverse blueprints).

Well, as you are aware: you can switch off stuff you do not need: there is a circuit breaker for this reason; adding a switch to each entity would only simplify this task.

With certain track layouts signals cannot be placed on both sides of the track - even though there is enough space on the side. This seems to be the case when the track is not accessible (without stopping and driving backwards) from the side one wants to place signals on. This situation can occur wh...

When the next active stop of a train changes (the yellow highlighted one), the complete schedule vanishes in the trains overview. Compare the two screenshots of the identical situation just seconds apart (I only reopened the train window; first screenshot is (nearly) how it should be, 2nd is like it...

Construction bots are definitely more than a convenience: they keep the game playable beyond midgame, removing the grind, helping players focus on what's important. Logistics bots are something in between, but mostly a convenience: Logistics bots which supply the player with whatever s/he orders for...

I can definitely confirm that it works with a more powerful graphics card (but otherwise mostly identical default setup, thus noveau driver). Testing on my underused windows install showed that factorio often hit 100% GPU usage when the game got slightly busy or especially when trains were nearby. I...

I connected to redmew crash site server and was desynced while watching a bug spit onto turrets

automatically created desync report: https://cloud.planetmaker.de/index.php/ ... CGN4bMxcxE

May I suggest source for confusion ?

There's two different accounts which seem to not be linked: one for factorio.com and for the forums.factorio.com. At least it got *me* quite confused.

I played a lot 0.16.51 and loved it. Looked onto the 0.17.x experimental yesterday and I totally dont like a lot of changes made, the UI looks clumpy and overloaded compared to 0.16.51, the new treadmills look really bad, with the new 3d animation on the horizontal, looks confusiong and it taking m...

Damn you, damn you... With 0.17 I started a new game... and my sleep during the nights since have been incredibly short. There always is just another next thing to do and it is absolutely capturing. Thank you for the already many hours of gameplay with this newest and greatest release - and the many...

I'm playing the railroad map, first time (...) Why not make a private train to use as transportation? I tried it and it works great! Yes, a private train is very nice for these things. I combine that with my supply / construction train which is 2 engines, 3 wagons and one artillery. By default it's...

With the 0.17.x versions on linux Factorio does not start a new game anymore or load a map. I get to the main menu, and I can select a file to load or a new map to start - but it does not get beyond that, remaining in the graphics driver forever and freezing the complete GUI system. It used to work ...

I totally like the love you give the train interface. That should make train handling a lot easier. And the same has to be said for the blueprint interface. That currently is a bit... say, unintuitive and I end up cluttering my whole inventory with blueprints which I regularily need to weed through ...

I definitely would like to join a multiplayer round as well when times match.

I go by 'planetmaker' basically wherever I go

I'm very late to the party as I only now actually started with the game. Answering V's question from FFF #236, I'd say "yeah, very typical V45300" :P And I mean it in a very positive way - it's a very nice showcase of what the game offers and a nicely complicated chaos (or should I say &qu...

These changes read very reasonable and sound to me - for the reasons listed in the FFF. Especially the military science and blue science probably profit and fit smoother into the game.

Nice way to go forward and looking forward to it

Thank you for this magnificient game! I recently bought it and after short of 200 hours but a lot of tinkering in the game I launched my first rocket. It started with a somewhat messy starter base, an even messier intermediate one and ended up in a fairly decent base with a main belt and everything ...