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by pmoriarty 3y ago
Mods could probably add all the planets you want, but with the new expansion they'll be able to use all the new mechanics the expansion adds. I'm excited.
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
I turn off biters in most of my playthroughs, and set all my resources up to 200%, and I still much prefer Factorio played this way to Shapez. Shapez was fun for a handful of hours, but I really don't see myself spending hundreds, neve
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
You are rewarded for spending resources by unlocking technologies, and being able to use the new tech to refactor and grow your base. Still, I agree with you that there's some missing depth in the game that no mod has yet been able to
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
"The one downside is that fighting creepers is too easy. The anti-material rifle has too much range, letting me snipe them from a position of invulnerability." Maybe you could increase their evolution rate, pollution, or give th
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
Factorio is closed-source, unfortunately. Still, you can read a lot about how the devs developed it on their "Friday Facts" posts: https://factorio.com/blog/
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
"More interesting aliens and strategies for dealing with them. After awhile, the aliens start to feel like a repetitive grind. They always behave predictably and the solution to them is pretty much always the same." Try the Ramp
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
Blue signals just mean that some, but not all, segments ahead are blocked by a signal. Also, this video[1] by Soulless Gaming on "How to Fix Train Path Errors" has a lot of useful tips on train/signal troubleshooting. [1] -
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
For refueling I've recently been using the cybersyn mod, which let's you easily create a refueling stations that your trains will automatically go to when they're low on fuel (with exactly how "low" they need to be
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
"Chain in, rail out" is the standard advice. However, if you search around r/Factorio you'll see there's debate about whether that's the best advice for beginners. Chain both in and out is supposedly the foolp
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
I just use city-block blueprints and never really worry about signals. However, the foolproof advice I've gotten from r/Factorio has been to put chain signals at the entrance and exit to every junction, and to make sure there&#x27
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
Intended or not, I've found playing with mods way, way more fun (and much less annoying) than playing vanilla Factorio (which I still love, but not nearly as much as modded Factorio). After my first vanilla playthrough I loved the game
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
The main problem with that is that there aren't nearly as many people who know Haskell or Erlang compared to those who know Lua. Lua has been a modding staple across countless games, so millions of gamers/modders are already famil
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
I enjoyed Shapez, and it's cool that it has many mods, but I just found it too abstract and sterile to keep my attention. Factorio just much more engaging for me in the long run, especially with mods.
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
You could just disable cliffs during world generation. That's what I do. They're slightly helpful for biter defense, but otherwise they're just annoying. There are also many mods that let you pump water from anywhere.
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
As much as I love the base game, I would have quit long ago if it weren't for mods. Mods are what keep me coming back.
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
They don't call it "cracktorio" for nothing.
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
This has been Factorio's MO from the beginning. It was in Early Access forver, and all that time it was way more polished and stable than many fully released games with much higher budgets. In the decade or so that I've played Fa
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
I play with hundreds of mods, and I'm excited about this expansion. Mods have performance and compatibility issues, and they don't always get bug fixes or updates very often. It'll be nice to have an expansion to the base ga
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
"if we transfer the DNA to an advanced alien civilization - would they be able to make a human." I'm really surprised that in all these responses to your question no one's mentioned the womb or the mother, who (at leas
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
I prefer using Keyboard Maestro[1] for this, which does a lot more than just allow you to remap the keyboard. [1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_Maestro
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
Just build up. Zoning laws are what prevent that. Those need to be changed.
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
Somebody already did this: https://www.openculture.com/2020/03/every-melody-has-been-co...
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Landlords Are Pushing the Supreme Court to End Rent Control(jacobin.com)
40 points by pmoriarty 3y ago|74 comments
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
Hardcore History did one too: [1] Unfortunately it's behind a paywall now, but the start of that particular series is one of the most interesting things I've ever heard on a history podcast. [1] - https://www.dancarlin
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
For someone who hadn't lived through that era to really understand how valuable a collection of shareware/freeware software on a disk was back then, you have to understand that it was an era of information scarcity. Nowadays you c
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
> "While we do not yet have the data to judge [autonomous vehicles] against the standard human drivers are setting, I do believe in the potential of this technology to increase safety on the roadway," said commissioner John Re
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Robotaxi expansion gets green light in San Francisco(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by pmoriarty 3y ago|1 comments
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US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK(bbc.co.uk)
23 points by pmoriarty 3y ago|4 comments
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
Of course. All you have to do is find people willing to do the work.
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
There were a bunch of other vi alternatives back in that day. vim was just the one that wound up becoming the most popular. nvi and vile were two names that spring to mind, but I know there were others. Looks like vile itself started in 19

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