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How are these alerts grouped? Do you do try to merge alerts in the same area or do you split them for each missing item type?
I forgot to mention it, the alerts are grouped by position, so 20 damage alerts for 1 wall being attacked don't spam up the list
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Is it me you're looking for?
When it comes to UI, one of the things we are proud of is the standard search feature in every window where it's even remotely relevant. It all comes nicely together. You stop thinking about it, and press the CTRL + F shortcut to search whenever you look for something.
But once we got really used to it, we suddenly started to want to search even when not in some window, but just in the game itself. This combined with the fact, that the most frequented question in multiplayer games was, "Hey, where do we make X please?" (especially once planets were added).
Which lead us to the most obvious complementary feature:
Why not extend the searching to the whole map as well?
We were not sure about what exactly should be searchable, so we just started from the most obvious, the production search. ...
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Hello, It's Earendel back for another electric adventure.
You got your first look at Fulgora in FFF-398. (If you haven't read that already please read that first.)
Now let's take a look at the new planet's mechanics.
Every night on Fulgora brings an immense lightning storm. Lightning hits things at random based on material and height. If you're wandering around in the middle of nowhere expect to get zapped a few times. It can kill you and wreck your stuff so look for shelter when it starts getting dark.
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Hello there,
Where shall we go today?
You land on an unfamiliar planet, a lifeless and desolate place. The thin air is freezing cold but bone dry. A distant sun twinkles in the dull purple of the sky. Wispy clouds race by as a gale whips up sand that grates against your armour.
As you look around, you find yourself in a desert with endlessly snaking dunes of dust-like sand. The dust almost seems to hover as though gravity were overwhelmed by static electricity. As you press forward, you pass peculiar pillars of fused sand and metal. The sand gives way to rock as you find yourself on the edge of a wind-swept plateau.
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Standing on the cliff-edge, you see similar landforms ...
Read moreMaybe alt-mode won’t toggle until after the player releases the key?
Yes, pressing ALT-click won't toggle the altmode, as it also isn't toggled when you do ALT-TAB.
Hello,
we have gathered here today to talk about a new quality of life feature coming with 2.0.
Factorio has a quite a lot of items and recipes. Since the new things are unlocked over time, the number is manageable. However with Space age, there are a lot of new things you unlock, and you can start to lose track. Mods have had this sort of problem for a long time, and there are also mods which help to solve it , such as FNEI and ...
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Hello,
Today we will be looking at (and listening to!) many of the sound improvements we have been working on for 2.0.
The sound an entity makes when it is active is usually a single looping main sound, some entities might have sounds that play when they become active or when they stop working and go idle. In addition there are several properties and modifiers that can be used to control working sounds a little bit more. But there is only so much one can do creatively with a single looping sound when it needs to work in all situations.
The ability to synchronize the sounds of a machine to its animation was very high on the list of requested audio features. What I came up with was the concept of Sound accents. Shorter sounds which get played at a specific frame of a specific animation. Initially I expected a machine would get two or three sound accents to complement its main sound and that woul...
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Read more External link →so we can actually finish everything in time
In time for when?!
For the release.
Yes but you could do that in 1.1 as well. What I’d want is, after hitting, say 100spm for all sciences, increasing only the red science production to 200 to be useful so I get some benefits before I increase all else to 200.
Thanks for the answer!
The point is, that it now depends what infinite research you mean, because not all of them nead everything.
The mining productivity research for example doesn't need any planet research even with the expansion, while most of the planets have some of its own specific infinite research. So if you improve just one thing, you can then do the one infinite research better.
But if you want to improve every research production at the same time, it actually get worse.
How consistently will we have to name train stops? Will we have the ability to provide a signal to a train stop to determine its purpose, such as a positive value for an item signal making it a "pickup" station and a negative value making it a "dropoff" station? It's how I imagine you'd be able to make stops that want or supply different items without enforcing a naming convention from on high. Maybe we want Train stop is full of bees to supply our iron :3
That way you could use some clever circuitry to request different trains too...
We didn't do a system to be able to change the name of the stop by a circuit network, if you asked that.
It is something that would make sense to do eventually, but we have a lot of things to juggle, and we are now really trying to cut on adding things, so we can actually finish everything in time.
I am very curious to see what scale you think the new bases are going to be in 2.0. I have found that scale is something the community struggles with when discussing the game. Some players think 100 trains on a rail network is huge while others would think 1k trains is barely entering the mid game.
In my modular train bases, 1.5-3k trains is pretty normal. In my centralized bases, 1-1.5k is not unheard of.
Just from everything that has been said in the FFF, it sounds like you (the devs) expect bases to be way larger than what we are doing now. How many trains do you expect we will use at megabase level in 2.0? What size are your bases now (in 1.1) and how large are they in the current 2.0 build?
I have no idea. If megabase is basically as big as you can build without the game being too slow, then it depends how many optimisations can we do before the release.
Elevated rails..... Is there a fff I can read more about this because it sounds interesting 🤔
Sure, "fff elevated rails" google search leads right to this:
https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-378
Did you slowly build up to 10K or planned for it? My biggest gripe with 1.0 is that you hit a certain SPM and you can't slowly increase from there (as increasing production of only 1 science is not useful), you have to plan the entire thing to hit a higher SPM. Does that change in 2.0?
Well, at some point, i built train based research production, and then just improved th emodules inserter qualities, lab qualities etc.
But at this point, increasing the lab production wouldn't be that hard, as I have modular scien production modules which I could theoretically just copy paste around.
Were you considering integrating purely visual mods into base game?
Disco Science and Bullet Trails, while not changing anything gameplay-wise, make Labs and Gun Turrets look so much better.
We were considering it, but never did so, because it is really really hard to make that mod and different graphis can never change anything game play wise.
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