What if a player just wants to shut off their factory on bad days? That's certainly a possible solution. What if they want to switch to coal backup? That's another solution. What if they want to run seperate grids for low and high priority energy networks? When solar isn't a guarantee, you suddenly...

A very VERY simple way to make underground belts unable to traverse cliffs:

Give the cliffs a three tile visual area, and a five tile hitbox. Just was we have with some of the rocks in game now that are four tiles wide but appear two tiles wide.

The heart of the solar energy problem, I think, is that in a game like Factorio, any new technology that makes your old problems simple to solve should do so in a way that introduces entirely new problems to tackle. And solar panels don't introduce many interesting challenges IMO. Thus, while needin...

I don't favor making power poles the target of alien attacks since it could have quite a lot in the way of unintended consequences. Lines to mining outposts need to be defended where before they could be made reliable for example. Another solution is based on something from another discussion in How...

You speed up research by building more labs. That's a simple problem with a simple solution. I don't think people are complaining about the speed --- Indeed, if my own experiences are common, having far more stuff to spend our science packs on just for the sake of spending those packs would be nice...

snip snip For a change, you can try reading comprehension. I heard it helps. I have no problems with paid guides and people who buy them. I have a problem when a dev is too lazy to do anything themselves, and rely on community driven-wikis and MARKET paid guides by someone else. See I have the oppo...

Alright, I'd just been talking before but here's the counter-science, I've done this before somewhere around 10.something but now it's current to 0.12.20. The walls to the north are not part of this test. http://i.imgur.com/cvaD8jq.png Shortly after kiting a pack of spitters into my minefield we end...

http://i.imgur.com/RZn9OB1.jpg There it is. Scienced. 0.12.20. They hurt anything that isn't a landmine. What exactly did you test them on? I see the wall certainly and I imagine that you had those bullets in a full ring, but the other landmines appear unharmed and I don't see conveyor belts or any...

I have to say, finding that chemical plant bug was hilarious. In a "I've been playing this game for a year and a half? I've taken note of the shape of the plant repeatedly and at length during that time. How in the name of all things did I miss that?" kind of way.

Still chuckling over it.

-snip- There are more solutions that might be tried, both are not hard to program, but mainly the understandability by the user is the goal. Deactivatable stations - the station could be deactivated based on circuit condition. For the train it would be like it doesn't exist. I like this one, as it ...

Also, can it be clarified if landmines damage other landmines when they explode? Yes, they do. When a landmine is caught in the explosion of another mine, it explodes as well, leading to this chain reaction where possibly all of your mines in one location go off in one big boom. Which leads me to m...

Fuel count for one or for a train going around resupplying outposts it can then decide to go back only if it is running low on a certain item The train conditions are *wait* conditions. They determine when the train should leave the station. Not if the train should go to a station in the listing. I...

So now that we've have pathways for a while and can effectively draw on the map as we wish, I'm curious, does anyone besides me use this stuff to pretty up their factories? Not even in the sense of drawing or anything but just basic stuff like cordoning off production blocks with paths to give the f...

Antichamber: So much of the game is learning how it works that you'll only ever play it twice (once to get through it, and a second time to get through everything shockingly fast) but for those who like working their heads around something, it's brilliant fun to figure all the game's rules out. From...

Exactly as it says in the title: When the chemical plant is facing north-south the input is on the section with the large pipe while the blocky pit with three pipes is the output and the green goo vat is on the left side. When facing east-west on the other hand, the chemical plant's large pipe faces...

As far as long term plans and the space platform goes: Honestly, this rate of progression seems kind of on par from what I've seen. It seems like, with basically every early access game, any big project that occurs later on in development takes about a year from the moment the foundations are laid t...

Just to be clear. It doesn't say that the state we have now is slavery. I'm just stating that the things that are happening now could lead to it if it continues like this for a long time. The slavery it could lead to could be totally comparable to the slavery in the past, if not even worst, because...

Cloning vans wre the soviet's unique building in ra2, it became yuri's faction unique buidling in the expansion (don't remember what the soviet get in exchange) The colourisation of the one in the specific screenshot looks like the Yuri faction colours version, The golds give it away. Soviets would...

Peter34 wrote:

LotA wrote:personnaly, it reminds me of this :

What game is that from?

Command and Conquer Red alert 2. Looks like the Yuri's Revenge expansion specifically.

Though the image url notes it comes from a modding community.

You probably should think about expanding the single player campaign before releasing on steam, i'd hate to see complaints that the game was short The game is as long as you want it to be. Sure it ends with the satellite launch, but its entirely up to you when you build it. You can spend hundreds o...