Ric wrote:Is it wrong that I highly enjoyed that?

There's just one thing I'd change, it think it goes without saying.

EDIT: oh my, you were replying to another video! Only noticed it after I posted.
EDIT 2: Yes, it is wrong! Now, I'll go back to watching the 10 hour version of das boot...

The demo has less entities, thus less graphics to load into memory. I have 1024M of VRAM on my Mac and I have to use low graphics mode. Since low graphics mode is just 50% scaled down images (on both axis, so 25% memory usage), I'm pretty confident 256M is not going to be enough for low graphics if ...

Early game solution: go attack biters with the car, you can fire your weapons while inside. You can then get out of the car after combat and repair it. Late game solution: power armor can have shields which regenerate a bit faster. With a few exoskeletons added to the mix you can outrun the biters a...

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In two months from now 256M might be enough, maybe, but I'm not the developer so I can't know for sure what their planned schedule is.

The VRAM requirements are rather high at the moment, so you'd probably get garbled graphics. The devs are working on it, but reducing the video memory requirements will take a while. Unfortunately, I believe you won't be able to run the game now. 256M might be enough in the future, but not currently...

Player position/movement seems to play a huge role in determining when the biters unfreeze. Often the biters are only frozen if you stand where you are, sometimes if you stay on the left side of biter it'll remain frozen and the moment your X position goes to right side of the biter it wakes up again.

each steam engine needs to be connected to the electric network with a pole

Teurlinx wrote:A simple solar panel / accumulator setup would accomplish much the same though

When you have hundreds and hundreds of accumulators and they're not enough to power everything through the night, it suddenly becomes interesting to make these silly power plant bases here and there

i just build really really long belts from nearby resource fields to go into my old iron/copper processing lines and when all nearby fields go out, i make trains to remote mining sites and unload their stuff into chests which unload into belts going to the old processing lines... the infinite oil is...

The game uses a lot of sprite animations so it needs a lot of VRAM, and this is what happens when the graphics card can't handle what the game needs. The developers are working to reduce the graphics memory requirements, but unfortunately there are currently no workarounds other than the low graphic...

Biters are not currently a threat because they're too simple and predictable. It's way too easy to deal with them once you know how they behave.

I'd kinda call it a bug anyway, since the result is unexpected and certainly unintended and undesired. That makes it a flaw, a fault, an issue, and by certain definitions "a bug" - even if it's doing exactly what it's currently supposed to do (randomized map, no validation) However, the bu...

And the red "unread posts" icon in the board index page is painful to watch, it feels out of place. I am also afraid of that. I asked Albert to push the colors a bit (:/) because before it was too "integrated and invisible", but maybe it needs a bit more tweaking. You could try ...

Usability suffers quite a lot with the new skin. Contrasts are too low in a lot of places, hover effects are too strong (i.e. distracting) and so on. It feels unpleasant to use.

And the red "unread posts" icon in the board index page is painful to watch, it feels out of place.

Trees reduce pollution so I'm usually not gonna cut them down unless they're on top of resource patches and need to be eventually removed anyway. My starting routine is usually: Make axe Place drill on coal and the furnace to act as its chest Mine 2 coal to kickstart the drill Go mine some iron and ...

In my video I hadn't researched maximum shotgun speed. It's significantly easier with the max shooting speed...

Ha! My first oil industry was a disaster too, I went into it right after I had gotten oil stuff researched and could only make solid fuel from all 3 oil types ... so I wasted my initial oil reserves making several steel chests full of solid fuel. I never managed to get rid of all of that! Nowadays I...

It'd be nice if all those info icons came with a helpful text that you'd see if you hovered the building in question.

Water: only in starting area. All other settings default. Happened on the first try (Mac 0.9.8) ... can't bother repeating to see how often it happens



Save: http://hack.fi/~muzzy/tools/factorio/sa ... nering.zip

Oh, the circle of stones isn't a feature? I've had it lots of times with low water settings, a perfect circle made of a dense bunch of stone doodads surrounding the starting area