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do higher quality train fuel increase top speed and acceleration?
Not at the moment but that may still change
do higher quality train fuel increase top speed and acceleration?
Not at the moment but that may still change
Is quality moddable? Can you add more quality types with modding?
Yes, they are prototypes like everything else, you can change their bonuses, "hardness" (the probability to get the next tier), names and count of them.
One question, can train locomotives have higher quality too? I would love a acceleration bonus on them too
No, primarily because we don't have an automatic way of upgrading locomotives.
Read moreHmm. Interested feature. I'm mixed on it.
Pro: From the sounds of things, you do not get "Quality" Items until you use the Quality Module. So your miners won't be spitting out "Quality" Ore until you put the modules into them. This means that you can beat the game and ignore this system if you don't like it, like the circuit network.
Con: Once you start using Quality Modules, it might be VERY VERY PAINFUL. Not only will they start to take up space in Trains or other inventory locations, they will also end up in places you might not expect, due to the nature of Factorio factories being... intertwined after a while.
Pro: Higher quality items might help alleviate beacon spamming as a strategy in the early late-game.
Con: It might make the end-late-game way, WAY worse as q5 beacons with q5 modules are now so much more effective.
Pro: This does mean your starter base will likely not produce these items, and instead they will be the focus of mega b...
There's a lot more interesting details about this. Generally there's 2 main approaches:
More complicated approach:
- Put quality modules in every steps you can
- Means a lot of complications with where you route which items.
- It's possible to mix qualities, but the result will be of the lowest quality. This way you can make use of all items.
This is generally really complicated and I don't think you'd typically want to do this. Maybe at the early stages of the game you just shove quality modules in various machines so that you could get quality ingredients for a 1-off thing (like armor, equipment or tank) - then you're not really relying on RNG and just on your strategic decision of putting those modules in machines early so they build up the quality parts.
Simpler approach:
- Put productivity modules everywhere on for example circuit production
- Put quality modules only on the final product (Productivity module)
... Read moreI don't think the random element fits factorio well. Surely the quality module should charge a bar like the productivity module does?
I feel like a predictable system would allow for more depth of design, such as integrating well with the circuit network
I actually think that random element fits factorio. As others pointed out, the kovarex process and the uranium processing also has random in it and it shows how nicely it breaks the design monotony.
There is another random element on the space platform, where you can catch different kind of asteroids, process them, and deal with the fact, that it is not the perfect ratio you want.
The point is, that perfect ratio setups might be fun, and still will be in the game (although I almost never do perfect ratios personally, I just put things down and look for bottlenecks). But it is boring to have everything the same and exact, having a system which fluctuates and you have to deal with all the possible ways it can break is just additonal design challenge.
Having these changes in the way you build and think about the game, to avoid doing the typical belt->inserter->assembler->inserter->belt template everywhere was one of the goals in the expansions, and there will...
Read moreTo be honest it sounds like it would be quite tedious feature, knowing me (and I'm probably not alone on this) I would just recycle everything that isn't the best quality so entire factory only uses the top quality components and products.
The problem with this is, that the costs are quite significant so it's very much worth it to not ignore steps. Also, the last two quality tiers are unlocked later on planets so you'd have to skip it entirely at the first half of the game, and it's quite worth it to have just a handful of better machines on the space platform for example, or a few higher quality productivity modules in the most resource expensive recipes.
Does the endgame become gambling on high rarity parts that otherwise get recycled into another chance of becoming high quality because rng?
I don't like it, and I play gacha games. Hopefully this can be turned off. The module is fine, no need to change it for the sake of change.
I get how the whole "RNG" feels strange at first, but in practice you're mostly not producing single units of anything, rather mass quantities. So in the end it's really just a statistic rather than hoping for something to drop individually.
To make things clear, the quality content is exclusively part of the expansion. The non-expansion binary works the same internally, it just doesn't allow any mod to define anything other than the normal quality.
This feels a bit icky to me. I get why, they want to encourage more people to get the expansion, but it also means fragmenting mods more since they now have to deal with supporting both vanilla or expansion. Many might just opt to default require expansion. I know it wont impact many, me included, as we will just get the expansion. But it feels like the wrong decision.
Only comparison I can make is something like StarCraft II, where each DLC added new things, but all engine features were still fully available to modders. The only limitation was the use of assets new assets and obviously mods that just replicated the expansion would be removed.
It is actually the opposite, using the same binary means mods don't need separate versions and or need to support 2 different APIs.
The names in particular feel rather out of place. "Epic" and "Legendary" are evocative of your usual fantasy setting which is very much at odds with Factorio's smoggy quasi-dieselpunk aesthetic.
I just found it amusing to have legendary iron plate.
I'm a bit torn on quality. On one hand it could be a fun way to design around absurdly powerful items, on the other it doesn't feel like Factorio. The quality indicator seems out of place too, but maybe it's just a place holder.
How do stacks work now? One stack for each quality?
Yes, quality stacks are independent.
Hello,
Today we are going to talk a little bit about a big feature in the expansion, Quality!
Quality is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
What truth?
That you are a noob, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into normal quality. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your factory.
You take the blue module, the story ends, you wake up in your factory and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the white module, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Since I just got used to plan and execute these kind of changes. I learned to imagine any ideas like that and think about how it would work etc. So far so good, but the problem is, that something you learn to do almost automatically can't be so easily turned off. So whenever I use any software (or system), I can't stop thinking of ways how to improve it, how greatly it would work and the approach to just not accept the state in which things are kicks in. And then I get more and more annoyed by the lack of that feature anytime I use the software which I can't simply change. I'm sure it is not that uncommon, but still, it can get pretty annoying.
On the the last gif (the lake one)
> always charge at a roboport that is closer to the destination than the robot is
Wouldn't that actually make them perform much worse in the much more common scenario of a perfect grid?
The perception of bots flying over available roboports but continuing on low energy might actually be worse than simply looping back and forth.
Example:
Given a fully covered 5x5 grid and a bot that travels diagonally from 1,1 to 5,5.
If it turns out mid flight at say 3,3 that it doesn't have enough juice it will try to recharge at 5,5 instead of the closer roboport at 3,3 and continue.
The robots always keep some reserve (10% I think), before they try to go for charging, which should probably be enough to make it work in a grid.
Wait so is weekly FFF back?
Yes :)
For these 'smarts' we use a quite simple heuristic, factoring in not just how close the roboport is, but also how many other robots are currently charging there.
/u/factorioteam can you confirm that this will take into consideration "free spots" and not just blindly "how many are charging?" They seem very similar at first, but with modded roboports, we can have way more than 4 robots charging at once. So I just wanted to make sure that calculation will still consider open spots
It is the number of charging slots without any robots, so should work fine for modded roboports with more charge slots
Will a mod be able to adapt to whether or not the expansion is installed w/o requiring it as a hard dependency?
I assume the dependency will be the same as adding the expansion to the mod’s dependency list, so it’ll support optional and hard dependencies? Kinda like how all of the base game’s content is in __base__?
Currently this is not possible.
It is quite clear, that there were things in the inventory which Scott just didn't want to show yet, so he just pasted the icon over.
You fool! Their location still tells us where they go in the tabs! Assuming one of the ones between roboports and combinators is the "Real" redwire, there's something there (Another colour? Or maybe coloured lamps or a new combinator. Leaning toward coloured or other variant lamps honestly.)
The other 5 after nuclear fuel are a bit harder. From memory of the inventory/tabs, the only thing after intermediates would be more science packs, then you're into the combat tab, so I'd probably guess new weapons/armor/toys
Wow, I didn't expect this kind of deduction!
There is bunch of things between the science packs and the military stuff indeed, and it is the "Space" tab. I guess that the information that we moved space related stuff (including existing rocket silo and satellite) into its own tab for easier navigation isn't that surprising after all.
Will it be possible to buy the expansion DRM-free on factorio.com then register it on Steam, like we did back in 2016?
Yes, as long as steam supports it for DLC (I hope so).
