Also I have an idea of piling up stuff. Namely raw materials and junk. If that sort of item was on the land then it turns into a small 1x1 pile - a simple container that can store only that sort of items and has one slot (with that one item). Collecting it will destroy the pile. If there is enough place around then two full adjacent piles combine and turn into 2x2 pile with 8 slots, then with the growth these two full piles combine into 4x4 pile with 64 slots, then into 8x8 piles with 512 slots (good luck to fill them) and then maybe two of them can turn into a monstrous 16x16 pile with 4096 slots if this is even possible in this game
It would be the most effective way to store materials in the game.
This makes me think of HARP and project Big Babylon. The "space guns" weren't cost effective because the barrel could only be used a couple of times. Since Iraq was probably going to use it to launch military satellites, the project was ended prematurely when the parts were confiscated. It would have been interesting to see if they could find a way to improve cost effectiveness of space guns to be competitive with rockets.bobucles wrote:... If you just want to launch raw unprocessed materials into space and already have something up there to handle it, the most efficient delivery is with a gun...
Well the main gameplay benefit is offering orbital supply in a cheap package. Rockets are workable for bringing a high tech payload into space (like the player and a starting platform), but low tech goods will be nightmarish to haul the same way. A giant space gun offers a low tech solution. It can deliver any raw material which can handle insane G's no problem, and all the player has to do is catch it and process it on site. Any advanced item would simply be crushed by being shot out of a cannon, which means a space layer would only have free access to starting quality materials. In effect space would be "starting over" on the tech tree.Anyway, I think that giant guns don't fit well into the Factorio aesthetic. It just feels too "low tech" regardless of realism.
I personally like this one with 1 small tweek.sillyfly wrote:Yup, I also think most containers have way too much storage.
What I think is pretty reasonable:
Wood chest - 4 slots.
Iron chest - 8 slots
Steel/Smart/Logistic chest - 10 slots.
Cargo wagon - 20-30 slots.
Car/Tank - 20-30 slots.
Player inventory - 30 slots.
Plus, maybe allow some bigger storage facilities, like a 2x2 storage depot with 30-40 slots, and maybe some 1x5 or 1x6 buffers (10-20 slots) for unloading trains and buffering for assembly.
Please no. Trains are so short now, don't make them even shorter.Kewlhotrod wrote:just increase the slots on the storage wagon, everything else is fine.
