In angels ores, you have a group of 6 raw ores to be mined, that need to be refined to usefull ores afterwards - maybe you should rather think into that direction, where you need a really sofisticated ore refining area to get the most rare ores out of the raws. This approach sounds to me much more w...

Or, if you construct your rails in a way that requires no turning, just use 2-4 which is a lot faster then 2-4-2 - And when you add rocket fuel in the end, its just insane how fast the trains are comming.

If you make them multiplicative, you change an overpowered system to be insanely overpowered: Actually, 4 +50% Production Speed moduled gain you +200% Speed, Multiplicative its already + 406,75% Are you sure thats what you want? If you want them to be stronger, just make a mod with additional module...

viveks711 wrote:

madpav3l wrote:

Twinsen wrote:

BradleyUffner wrote:Does this mean we could get multiple toolbars that we could cycle through? I could have my default toolbar, and additionally have a "Train" set, or a "Fluid" set for when I am focusing on those things.

I like this idea.

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Oh Yes, Oh yes!!!!!

YES YES YES

Talking about the placed ghosts: (which I really love)

Is there a way to automatically place an item on the ghost once you have it? Preferably including all settings that a fab or arm has? If not, please add it !!! Its really annoying to build stuff twice (until you have robots ofc)

I'm also strongly against that sort of changes, simply as its an unneccessary complication of a well working system. I use split networks a lot, for example a bigger station has its own seperated network to make sure, that the sorting works quickly and with maximum capacity. The only downside right ...

Read the friday facts, #190.

Also important when thinking about programming: If should have enjoyed mathematics at school, didn't get confused by formulas, and understand the basics of logic. If any of that was unpleasant and annoying at school, its hard to program anything complicated. An alternative in that case would be soun...

Prod modules have 2 downsides: Additional power consumption & reduced production speed. The reduced speed can be countered either with beacons or simply more fabs. Both costs space and initial ressources. If you have enough of both, its a no-brainer. Talking about the initial ressources spent, i...

I'd also stick to underground pipes, simple due to their nature of not connecting sideways

I also agree, that the PSP is a bit underpowered - if you make it 20kW each with the same actual production costs, it still summs up to 16 of them providing 320 kW at daytime compared to 750 kW 24/7 with the fusion reactor - it opens up a couple of options for early modular armor without going too f...

From a gameplay perspective, it makes sense that transporting barrels (which requires additional effort like barrel rotation, fill/unfill and so on) has a higher capacity then just filling in/out the fluid to the wagon.

Artillery is planned to be automated offense. The idea is, that you reload the artillery with some kind of ammo in the base, and then you make it go to some station, where it can just bombard/kill/remove all the enemy bases in quite a big radius. As it is part of train that can be automated, it can...

To make usefull asumptions, you should probably create far more then the 40 U-235 required - if your ratio at like 1000 U-235 is still at 0.5x, then its starting to be interesting. Also, keep in mind that if you only take like some U-235 for whatever reason out of the 40 away, the results are totall...

Factorio has provided an insane amount of quality and fun for the 20 bucks it costs.
Its time to make it 1.0 and finish this part of the development.

I'm really looking forward to future DLCs or expansions, and hope that the developers decide to continue their awesome work on this project.

I usually do the opposite: As I know exactly, how the final refinery will look like, I start building it the way it can finally stay, just reduce the number of refineries & Chem fabs - Now, that you can already place blueprints early in game, it makes even more sense to place the full fabs plan ...

At the beginning of this year, I discovered this FFF series but knew nothing about Factorio, but I found it quite interesting and continued reading. After a few dozen entries I wanted to try the game myself and played through the demo missions. After that, I had a better understanding of what the g...

What I do is simple: I automate the cracking of heavy => light => petroleum in a way, that they only work when their respective amount is above petroleum. So I build for example 20 x petroleum tank, 2 x light tank, 2 x heavy tank. I connect 1 tank of each type into the logistic network. For cracking...

The solar panels can't be turned off, since they produce power as soon as light hits them. Nuclear reaction starts, as soon as you put uranium inside the reaction chamber. The big downside of nuclear power is, that it can't be turned on and off quickly, and due to that, its the same here in factorio...

When clicking on the "player" column, to show the games with many active players, the games get sorted by "hours played" instead (minor bug) Further explored the bug: When clicking on the "hours played" column, it sorts by game name alphabetically, when clicking on the ...