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A lot, lot, a loooooot of playing and iteration. For every major release we've had a playtesting session, but some of us (mainly me and kovarex) have simply played the game a lot. Not non-stop of course :)

We've made so many little tweaks step by step, while occasionally taking a little bit of a bigger leap in some of the major versions.

Probably the most impactful balancing has been done around science packs, those were changed several times over the years of development, almost every major version had a bit different science packs, with 0.15 https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-159 removing the alien science packs and introducing purple/yellow/military/space science packs, and in 0.17 https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-275 they got changed to pretty much the state they are in now (except solid fuel x sulfur in chemical science packs).

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Does he get bonus points for devotion? :)

I don't follow this day to day, but seeing a recap once per month is really interesting. Thank you for this.

4.4 years of playtime per resolved bug report

Are we winning?

Sounds perfect to ... debug your factory! Huehuehue

I'll see myself out.

Yes, it could use more polish :)

In the tips and tricks, some tips have a "green play" icon in the index on the left, or a "Play tutorial" button at the bottom right, when you select the tip

GORE, I LOVE IT.

Ok I haven't seen a build with direct insertion via beacons yet XD I knew inserters can do that but I never thought to use it for that.

WTF. XD

DJ SpiDeRTr0N!

This is great.

TRICKED.

It's usually tools we make for our own use, and it's not really worth it to remove them in the official releases :)

Specifically this one was added to easily view various scales of the gui.

Because the ultimate victory is finding a bug in Factorio. :)

All of the 2D graphics are created from 3D models.

I'll just mention that major releases like 0.15, 0.16 or 0.17 took us about a year each, and the expansion should probably be significantly more impressive.

Try to get the biggest starting area and you will get as much time as you can.

Another cool variable is the pollution attack cost multiplier. I love to drop that to 0.3 or something along those lines. You will get a LOT more biters attacking you. Be careful about dropping it too low as it can cause the pollution cost of ammo get higher than the pollution cost of biters.

Theoretically you could mess with the pollution absorption, so the tiles/trees absorb it faster. Possibly (I didn't test this), if you increase the pollution absorption 5 times, maybe dropping the pollution attack cost multiplier 5 times could result in long-term comparable results, but with about 5 times more time to prepare? I'd guess there is some obvious caveat I'm forgetting, like the pollution costs for dying trees, the values when tree stages change not being affected, or something along those lines.

If you want biters to remain capable of causing damage even in late game, increasing m...

Well, shift + click works

it's now a part of the map view, see the icons on the right

Checkmate right there.

WTF it's actually not a joke XD LOL.