Factorio

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30 Oct

Comment

Originally posted by Atreides-42

Wasn't quality talked about in the context of "Sprinkle a few quality modules throughout your factory, and statistics will mean you get random rares"?

Because Quality as-is does NOT work that way. You either have to absolutely 100% go all-in on quality, or ignore it for anything except the most final of end products. If you just throw quality modules into your machines the same way you would speed or production modules (or efficiency I guess) you're basically just guarenteeing your factory will choke up and come to a halt.

It's just such a weird mechanic. It really feels like it needed months more development, and tonnes of playtesting from average players, not just devs and streamers.

Yes, you can sprikle few quality modules into the factory (assuming it is a final product, and you properly filter it). But we never said that you can just sprinkle the modules everywhere, it is very clear.

Also you absolutely don't have to go 100% all-in on quality, there is a whole spectrum of the involvement of quality in the factory, from completely ignoring, to putting it everywhere and dealing with the complexity.

All I see is a complaint about "when I just randomly put modules into a factory, it will not just magically make everything better", and yes, it is not that simple, but I see it as a feature, not a bug.

Comment

Originally posted by Atreides-42

Quality feels really, really half-baked in its current implementation. The fact that absolutely everything in the game treats different quality items as entirely different items, and there're no "Highest available quality", "Any quality above X", "Any quality below Y", etc. options for anything is unbearably annoying.

Hello, what do you even mean by "highest available quality", where exactly would you like to use it? or "Any quality above X", These sentences are very abstract, and I can't imagine anything specific when reading these.

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Originally posted by Ellisthion

You can’t use that for everything. Eg you can’t logistic request “uncommon or higher”, you can’t even request for two rarities of the same item because it says it conflicts.

Yes, you can't request uncommon or higher, because it would be very unclear what it means. And yes, you can order two rarities of the same item.

Comment

Why would you want to upgrade everything to higher quality, it makes 0 sense to me. Also, you can alter the blueprint to make just one entry for entity/item you care for, and make it quality < target -> target

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Minor Features

  • [space-age] Offshore pump speed increases with quality.

Changes

  • Curved rails cost 3 rail items to build.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed Remote View sometimes flickering to the wrong surface when using Next Surface/Previous Surface hotkeys.
  • Fixed that the Surface List would react to the Home and End keys after it was clicked more
  • Improved diagonal character movement which should help slip between things easier. ...
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28 Oct

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Bugfixes

  • Fixed rocket silos requesting more items than necessary. more
  • Fixed a crash when reading owner_location on simple item stacks. more
  • Fixed mini-tutorial scripts crashing or not granting items if player switched to remote view.
  • Fixed that LuaControl::opened write did not work for several GUI types. more
  • Fixed that elevated rail entities would still work without owning space-age. ...
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25 Oct

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Features

  • [space-age] Asteroid collector filters can be modified by blueprint parametrisation.
  • Programmable speaker can be modified by blueprint parametrisation.
  • When imported blueprint is placed, assembling machines will be configured with the recipe even when recipe is not yet researched.

Changes

  • [space-age] Fulgora ruins now also drop iron sticks when mined so electric poles could be crafted without recyclers at the start.
  • [space-age] The "Custom minimum payload" slider for orbital logistics now offers more sensible values.
  • [space-age] Orbital logistics "Custom minimum payload" is now checked against largest possible payload before setting the filter.
  • [space-age] Cargo bays will show a warning icon when they are not connected to a Hub or Landing Pad.

Optimizations

  • Improved performance of technology GUI when viewing only essential technologies. ...
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Comment

Originally posted by ArisenIncarnate

The point is that 'ton' is ambiguous.

Long ton A unit of mass in the Imperial system that is equal to 2,240 pounds. It is also known as the British ton.

Short ton A unit of mass in the avoirdupois system that is equal to 2,000 pounds. It is also known as the US ton.

All systems but the metric one were long forgotten in the Factorio universe, so I don't see any ambiguity.

Comment

Originally posted by Noch_ein_Kamel

1 Ton = 1 Megagram ;D

We were actually thinking about megagram and also megameter. But the world isn't ready.


23 Oct

Comment

Originally posted by FrancParler

Yes please try something 🙏 I get crazy having to double click every time one each recipe even if I just keep the normal quality all that time.

Also having removed items from save for which research wasn't discovered yet is a bit harsh, I would have liked an option to keep them (my 4 spidertrons) even if I couldn't build new ones until the tech is researched.

Hello, the removal of the items is specifically for when you opt-in to "downgrade" the factory when loading, you can just load the safe without that option, and you will keep everything.

Post

Features

  • Galaxy of fame. Offered when the game is finished. more

Changes

  • Non-blocking saving setting is no longer synced over the Steam cloud.

Minor Features

  • Added flying text for more cases of unsuccessful resource mining.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed that blueprint book tooltips did not look correct when in the quickbar. more
  • Fixed that m...
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Comment

Originally posted by HeKis4

Perhaps there's a toggle they can add to "I wanna change the quality in my recipes,"

Or, more simply, make it so that clicking a recipe selects the recipe, and if you want to set quality you have to do it beforehand, and not after.

Hello. The behaviour of closing the dialog by selecting the ID is something we did before, and it felt super cumbersome, as I had to go all the way down to the quality selection, and only then click the item, so we changed to the confirm

BUT.

I just realized that maybe, it could be done by just changing order in the actual window (did we really not think about this?).

So the quality selection would be at the top, and the item under, so you first select quality and then click, or you only click. It could work also for condition, you can alter the quality filter, or just keep the default (==normal) and press the icon.

I'm not sure if that really can work nicely in the UI and if it would work in practice, but it sounds like something worth trying.


22 Oct

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Changes

  • Achievement logistic-network-embargo updated with different condition for base game and space age.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed a crash when viewing the production statistics GUI while switching surfaces. more
  • Fixed unstable global grid position when re-assigning blueprint. ...
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21 Oct

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Bugfixes

  • Fixed a crash when changing decider combinator conditions or outputs in latency in some cases.
  • Fixed a crash when sending a platform with no thrust to a planet and then removing the stop. more
  • Fixed a crash when robots try to station in a full roboport because their stack size changed.
  • Fixed a crash in path finder when migrating 1.0 save files to 2.0.
  • Fixed orbital drop slots not counting towards Item count wait condition.
  • Fixed space platforms not respecting peaceful and no enemy modes.
  • Fixed a crash when downloading mul...
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18 Oct


11 Oct