V453000

Originally posted by Legendendaer

There is something weird about just plopping down ghosts on the platform and those ghosts appearing out of thin air (yes, yes. I know these items are in the hub, but still)

Would it be possible to introduce a space power armor with rockets to move in space? Or maybe rocket powered bots?

Secondly, the stars moving in the background of the space platform when it's moving shouldnt really happen... Maybe I'm pedantic, but I find it quite annoying/distracting/immersion breaking...

Also, should the space platform slow down at all when the thrusters are idle? I mean, there is not really a counterforce present which would slow the platform down...

Originally posted by Destr_Uctor

Yeah. I understand the difficulty. But this is not a reason for me not to publish the suggestion.

If they don't accept the suggestion, then they simply will not accept it. And it's all.

Originally posted by Gnarmaw

I like everything except for the remote deconstruction, for some reason I have tendency to right click randomly, and even though there is an undo feature, I don't like the idea of randomly deconstructing stuff.

Originally posted by eable2

This is really really great work, and I appreciate how hard this must have been to implement!

As excited as I am, I do have a small critique: Even though the ramp entities are huge, they still feel a little small and steep for how fast trains in Factorio can get. In the GIFs shown, it feels like the trains should be launching off of the rails. I don't think Factorio trains have upstop wheels!

My suggestion is therefore to force trains to slow down if they're going on a ramp. Or another idea, if you're feeling adventurous, would be to have another even huger ramp (2x size?) that lets trains go at full speed.

Originally posted by unwantedaccount56

Interesting detail: the upper level is 3 tiles higher than the ground level. Because the train grid is 2 tiles wide, you never have an upper level track exactly on top of a lower level track of the same direction, so the rail planner will always know which track it should connect to.

Originally posted by TheChubFondu

Do the rail supports automatically place if dragging the rails to create large segments? Or will we have to change our item to place them manually? (Thinking pre-bots)

Originally posted by raur0s

We had always felt it makes perfect sense, but trains in Factorio would rarely ever get into serious enough throughput issues to justify adding elevated rails.

I beg to differ, but I'm not complaining. Better late than never.

Originally posted by gandalfx

I know you've already scrolled down to see the ramps instead of reading this but it just felt weird not to put a paragraph here.

The self awareness! :D

Originally posted by Zr4g0n

It seems the rail supports have a limited 'lift range'. If so, how long is that?

Originally posted by alvares169

will there be ramps for stations too? Two level megabase confirmed? Item elevators??

Originally posted by teagonia

Even just the gaps? Thats what made me write the comment in the first place.

Originally posted by Yggdrazzil

This FFF was such a joy to read. I may be projecting but it looked like you had so much fun writing it.

Originally posted by teagonia

This is amazing, but of course I have seen a flaw with the graphics, which I have to criticise.

There is no gap in the junctions, only solid steel. So it'd be impossible for a trains wheel to pass another rail, since the wheels have a lip on the inside which holds them on the rail in extreme cases where the conical shape of the wheel is not enough.

There are also pieces missing which would facilitate the change of direction, the moving pieces on the inside and static ones on the outside which help the cars stay on track.

I'd like to see these point blades, frogs, guard rails, switch motors, etc..

All if the pieces mentioned on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_switch

I know it would be a lot of work for all these to be put in as graphics, a lot of variations, but i think it would look better and more interesting.

At least the lack of any gap or details just loo...

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Originally posted by juckele

rail signals with so many new directions that even the circuit connector (the yellow box) needed new directions

/u/V453000, I didn't notice a yellow box anywhere in this post. Any chance we could get some clarification on what you meant by this?

Originally posted by Keulapaska

So is the scaling same as worker robot speed tech, which is exponential and get's ludicrously expensive or more like mining productivity, where it's still expensive, but attainable to get to the max? Or some combo in between.

Originally posted by ceresward

It wasn't quite clear to me from the FFF, does the triggered research progress automatically once it is available, or do you still have to select it as the active research target first?