FrozenOne wrote:https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=6&t=2084

Oh snap, and it was suggested less than a month ago too!

I need to learn to search the forums before posting ideas

How about a power switching station? It would connect two isolated power networks and set conditions (perhaps schmitt trigger style) when to connect and disconnect the networks. This way you could isolate physical areas from the network if power goes down or if capacity is high enough and it could b...

Maybe introduce a smart inserter variant that could use status of the connected electricity network as a condition? It would have a lag in turning off the steam power because the already inserted coal would keep burning, but would have no lag in starting up the boilers when power is needed.

More end-game goals and content might help in getting those Let's Play videos going which will bring you sales. If the player experiences something new in every video, you might see someone making a 20 episode series of Let's Play Factorio. The lack of goals is really bothering me, and after playing...

Prior to seeing this thread, I believed there were basically two kind of views about what piracy is like and how copyrights should be used to encourage creation of new works. The ideological piracy , which builds upon the idea that sharing is a good thing by itself, for both the consumers and the cr...

This thread is no longer about piracy, it's about a power trip. It's obvious he isn't doing this because of any ideological reasons.

Includes. They are killing us. Factorio is written in C++ which has an old-school-textually-include-stuff approach to referencing objects in other files. This means that the compile time goes up fast with the growing codebase. That is why I program with Objective Pascal rather than C++ even thou mo...