This would be very useful and solve a really unintuitive problem. The only question is what goes in each group.

After much trial and error and thought, I've come to the conclusion that the big problem isn't that you can't make blueprints of any size and tiling that you desire, and it's not that blueprints with trains and blueprints without trains have different tilings. The problem is that the game doesn't e...

A “copy when placed in the inventory” feature would be nice.

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-224 Friday Facts #224 Bots versus belts https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-225 Friday Facts #225 - Bots versus belts (part 2) It seemed at the time that bots were considered too powerfull, they used to be a blue-chemical science technology. They were pushe...

I personally disagree. I never remove miners until the whole patch is depleted or extremely low (unable to supply a train quickly), and don’t find it hard to see the indicator light anyway. I don’t exactly see why it would matter that the belt was obscured, and haven’t ever noticed myself having tro...

Yeah, it was red hard to learn not to delete things from your quickbar. It seemed unintuitive that something can be deleted from far away.

oliverthom707 wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 15, 2020 7:12 pm

Thanks indeed. I wish the game would somehow track the time I play it, I'm quite likely nearing or over 1000h already

I know I have at least 3000

I'm pretty sure they are supposed to do this. At least the behemoths are.

I like there being a shortcut to go up a level. Personally, I would prefer "U" (if not already taken), as it's the shortcut to go up a level in Gmail and many email programs. Alternatively, ESC could exit out of the library screen completely, or perhaps have some other function (such as i...

ssilk wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 02, 2020 10:16 pm

Well, as long as Factorio isn't supporting control of the UI fully with keyboard, this suggestion is just questionable, because it looks only at one tiny aspect of keyboard controll.

what do you mean by "this suggestion is just questionable"?

Loewchen wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 26, 2019 4:34 pm

Robots do already place landfill, I assume what you actually want is landfill ghosts to be automatically placed when placing a blueprint on water?

that is what everyone is saying/asking for

Nothing violates the "rails can't be offset by 1 tile" rule. Blueprints will not change their "offset class" when rotated. The problem is simply this: Factorio blueprint tiling problem.png Both blueprints are perfectly tileable. They are essentially the same. The only difference...

To all who would implement compression in vanilla: how is adding compression any better than adding more tiers of belts?

This suggestion doesn’t force anybody to be used. As long as you don’t use any compressed item the whole game works exactly as before! Experience show that a lot of players will not use it. And on the other hand it gave you a lot more opportunities to create efficient blueprints. In other words: mo...

It is the way I play. I am speaking from my own perspective. Secondly, you said "the rest of this arguement is just silly". The rest. So not the part you criticized. you are the one yourself who said "what i'm saying, is..." if you don't want to boil your argument down to that o...

You say that building belts without blueprints gets repetitive, but you shouldn’t be doing that. You should make trains. The challenge of increasing throughput is a fun and interesting part of the game. And by the time you are building 16 belts at a time, you should be using bots and blueprints, an...

Can you tell me what is silly about it? because the fundamental basis of it is that a new way to do things that are more efficient will be the only way people play. this is silly, and i will demonstrate. trains are more efficient than belts or bots, and you'll see users not wanting to use those, ei...

What I’m saying is that if compression were implemented, everyone would be “forced” to use it, as it would become the most efficient method. I don’t want all the work I put into making highly efficient blueprints to be destroyed by a new feature. like the logistic robots that are unlocked around ut...

i dunnooooo, in real life we have this thing called technology and we advance it - one advancement is in packing techniques. you can see where i'm going with this. the one person who's really vocally against compression here thinks it's game-breaking but wants to tell others the way the game should...

You say that building belts without blueprints gets repetitive, but you shouldn’t be doing that. You should make trains. The challenge of increasing throughput is a fun and interesting part of the game. And by the time you are building 16 belts at a time, you should be using bots and blueprints, and...