Attacking biter bases by turret creep is a painfully slow process*, even with builder drones and blueprints. Still, as someone above said, it's sure-fire. No risk. So people will do it. Preventing buildings being placed near spawners is... ugh... cheese solution. I'd rather see other changes, like w...

This thread contains 100% pure feedback for developers and I hope they're taking note! The player should be coerced in to learning the basics of combat before evolution gets out of hand. This should be a consideration for the map generator and for the spawner-settler logic. Learning how to be good a...

There are so many aspects to this... Normally when you buy something you have some rights as a consumer thanks to your national consumer protection laws. This often looks something like a right to have a broken/defective product "repaired, replaced or refunded". Buying games over the web u...

Restart reading all articles of this thread. :) Ok... Basic example: http://s24.postimg.org/vp5spdr4x/example.jpg Refinery is producing petrol gas and pumping it into the network. Unused gas is going to tank and it's pumping back to network. So the gas from refinery and tank have the highest priori...

BurnHard wrote:Since they only work with intermediate products, no

Oh, true.. that's a shame. Well, I still can't see any reason to make solar panels take longer to build.

I tend to agree. Although there is a big difference between the weapons you use personally vs your base defenses. Obviously you can't load shotgun shots into a turret. And the SMG is useful in that it auto-aims at biters while you can't easily focus shotgun fire on a single biter. Using 5x more mate...

But what makes you think a factory making solar panels needs to be operating 100% of the time? Does it have any bearing on how many solar panels you need, or how quickly you need them? Would changing the production time make any difference to how many solar panels you need at a given point in the ga...

Small pumps don't pump anything when unpowered! https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3724 This thread is about more intelligent handling of that example! Oops, I did some testing and you're right. They do have to be powered in order for fluid to flow through them. I thought I r...

Thanks man

I wouldn't bother making a suggestion that only benefited myself. Hopefully this ends up helping lots of other players, perhaps those who don't read the forums.

Hey Garm, that works but it's kind of obscure. I think the majority of people will just fumble with the mining problem. Better that the interface accommodates the kind of contextual awareness of my suggestion, especially since the logic is so straight foward, no?

One power line can carry unlimited electricity. I think you just need to make more steam engines and boilers. Usually people put 14 boilers and 10 steam engines with one water pump. If you need more that that, make a separate bioler/steam water network because the pipes can only move enough water fo...

Radars serve a couple of useful purposes. Firstly, as you point out, putting one in each corner of your base gives you line of sight (or removes the fog of war, if you prefer) as if you were standing in each corner of your base at once. That's useful because sometimes biters will come and build a ne...

In the power screen, if consumption is less than 100% you need more power.
If production is nearing 100% you should start to think about expanding your power supply.

Radars use heaps of electricity. Try disconnecting a few!

Telarin wrote:The small pumps should accomplish this for you.

This.

Small pumps double as a one-way valve even when unpowered.

Running along digging up a wall is fantastically easy (and a well designed feature!) but it hits a snag when your wall goes over some resources. Your character stops to dig the metal or whatever. Could this be improved? If a mining 'session' (while RMB) begins with the mining of a building, then ign...

I would be happy with just one more tech level for player logistics slots. And another row for the toolbelt. Switching between building fluid networks, rail networks, factory & belts as well as a set of combat related things I just don't quite have enough room. Compared with everything else in F...

Walls currently don't block light sources. Is that regarded as a bug? It seems a low priority thing but... I often put lights against the walls of my base, especially around rail/car entrances etc. The current light graphic makes it look as if the light is sitting at ground level rather than up on a...

I think there is a small balance problem with Trains vs Belts at the moment. But mainly it comes down to a question of how your map was generated. As ssilk said, once you need to move resources 400 tiles or more, the train networks are a better solution. The problem is defaul/normal map settings are...