What I do is have green smart inserters taking stuff out of assemblers and placing it in purple active provider chests. I limit how many items I produce by setting the green inserter's logistics condition. Then I create an area with yellow storage chests. If I need anything I request it and bots bri...

For the record I never liked the 4 tile gap, so I just started building them next to each other when vertical or horizontal. When placing diagonals I leave a two tile gap between them. My signals and poles go on the outside and I'm quite happy with the look. I do wish I had an S-track 8 tiles by 4 t...

make it so the tone of the whistle post can be modified and we could make musical railways

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You should get in touch with Yuoki, he's made some excellent graphics for his own mods as well as a few for other mods, he even created some graphics for flyers and left it up to others to implement them as a mod.

How about having the rocket start to nose towards the player with it eventually flying right at us head on, getting larger and larger

Fabric could be synthetic but then oil industry would be a prereq

Already exists but they are really tough to get. Each type (basic, fast, and express) will use 2 inventory slots and to be able to lay them down you need to have an active construction network. Theres a mod out there already that makes it so you don't need a construction network but you'll have to h...

Again its merely for illustrative purposes call it a flux capacitor and use garbage for fuel... My point is Factorio is a game. I think we spend a lot of time in ideas and suggestions forum trying to make a simulator and hoping that the simulation turns out to be fun. Factorio is a game not a simula...

A quick replace of the belt and underground belt would work just leave whatever is in the middle alone

That wasn't meant as anything but an example to illustrate what I meant by an unbalanced system and why it would bring new challenges to game play. I leave implementation to people who know the actual code of the game better than I

I've been trying to start with the gameplay and work my way back to these cool power plants. Unbalanced system A system where its not possible to balance inputs and outputs passively. New challenge: the system is always moving from one state to another. Its ideal mode of operation lies somewhere bet...

watch out with auto removing between underground belts...lots of people use them to span assemblers. The times where I would want stuff auto-removed vs times I wouldn't want it feels like its 50/50

tldr; What, if any, new gameplay/challenges does this system bring to factorio? (directed at the whole post in general not just the previous one) IMHO This is complexity for the sake of complexity because all these turbines, condensers, pressures, and what not are still a system that reaches an equi...

Very good point about keeping these things as various options or rules that players can decide to use or not before starting a game. Maybe make it so that these things can only be changed via mods...that way the devs get to guarantee a certain experience and people who need a different set of rules ...

Sorry must have been put there by me when I was trying to troubleshoot, my bad I spoke too quickly. I should have actually done a fresh download and confirmed it was there in your version before reporting but I was afraid I'd forget.

lol its so easy to track when a new batch of people buy this game

Disregard this it was due to my own butterfingers

Found typo on line 125 of proxywagon.lua "prwoxy" should be "proxy"

I hope Ssilk come along to move your thread to the ideas and suggestions thread cause I really like this idea and think it would deserve to be in the base game.

In the meantime Smart Trains mod implements this and more