Certainly, I am looking forward to it.

No "landfill" - you now HAVE to build spaghetti for the third time now, because that's obviously such a fun mechanic somehow, being cramped. First the cliffs, then the lava fields, now the oil fields. I don't know, maybe it's me, but the novelty of cliffs wears off 30 minutes after starti...

I absolutely agree with everything that you say. The problem is, that "my spagetti is this way" vs "my spagetti is that way" is not real variation. What this causes, as you say, that this is a playstyle thing, which simply makes one playstyle significantly worse than another one...

Thank you for your condescending reply, I could not have decided myself to buy or not to buy the expansion. I would have bought the expansion even if I did not like anything in it, simply to support the devs, since I have been getting pretty solid content all those years. Funny how you also do not u...

- You need to ship in a resource which is usually abundant and is needed in huge amounts - check. "But you don't have to" - yeah, trains will be burning what then? As far as I got, you can get heavy oil, which you can use to fuel trains? Aside from iron gears, the most frequent item from ...

For those wondering how to eliminate excess ressources, just use a non-quality recycler loop, because without quality modules, recyclers give only 25% of the ressource back. Craft it, recycle again, and you only have 6.25% left. Even better, we can introduce as another "fun" and "eng...

While all of this does look brilliant, I can't say that I am looking forward to it, it's just not fun for me. It's all the mechanics that make SE not fun cramped into one, obviously mandatory, location. - You have to build defensive coverage everywhere you build - check, although this time it seem y...

Help develop the game, not the generic bloatware with features which you'll never use. So you have to jump through 20 hoops to get the same functionality you get through steam, are storage-limited at that, need a microsoft account, need a specific external software running for the sync, but that is...

To install Factorio on Steam, you need to install Steam first, for starts. For pure stand-alone Factorio it's just "unzip and go". If your preferred way of using software is "unzip and go", you have very special interpretation of convenience :D Also, onedrive offers only 5 gigs ...

Now that I rewatched it, the graphics and sounds reminded me of netstorm. Anyone still remember that?

Have you heard of Dwarf Fortress, my friend ? I have, but I am always somewhat reluctant to try it, seems like a very steep learning curve, especially considering the ascii graphics. I have played the offspring, rimworld though, was also good fun. One day I will muster up the strength to play dwarf...

One thing no one is talking about are those cliff-sized alien walls in some areas. They were clearly built by someone. I wonder if a tech coming from this planet is walls 2.0 that are basically buildable cliffs: larger and thicker segments (maybe 2x2 or 3x3) that are damn near indestructible. Seein...

GregoriusT wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 16, 2024 2:56 pm

I once modded a lightning rod into minecraft for power production

Understatement of the century

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Thu Feb 15, 2024 7:45 pm

aka13 wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:26 pm

Also, since by purchasing with steam you also get the non-steam version, from a consumer standpoint buying through steam makes more sense.

Buying through Factorio.com gets you a Steam key as well.

Then the matter is resolved, I guess

Looks great, reminds me of scorn/geiger work somehow. Really looking forward to it.

I understand, but I doubt that anybody at Wube has anything do to with how Steam prices their stuff. I doubt they can even legally talk about it. If you don't think it's "fair", then go ask Steam about it (and let us know what they say). In the meantime, just send your friend to Wube's we...

+1

Thank you, I will look into that. Is it not still strange that it lets a bot place it but not the engineer, manually? The bot is more or less an override mechanic for complex setups, where such mixing is deliberate. In the old days vacating the pipes was really tiresome, and the mix check got intro...

I consider everything you mention a positive, not a negative. I think that such "in-place" upgrades and bonusses are way more fun, than having to iteratively rebuild stuff on top of stuff.
It's a really cool thing, that all your belts acquire hidden new cool functionality on top of them.

This is a whole different can of worms, which is off-topic to the displayed value. The current "degrees per second" figure is legitimized by "items per second would be wrong". De facto, what that means is, "there is no meaningful value provided by the game, you can go alt ta...