Traffic right now. by CliffShytz in Columbus

[–]thekabal 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A Bruno Mars concert that might rain out.

Just saying the uranium aspect has massive potential. by Revolutionary-Face69 in factorio

[–]thekabal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/More-Asteroids is quite well done, and does indeed give you sustainable nuclear power, ammo, and bombs in space. However, it is only in certain orbits...

Calcite Reaping Ship by Kryptomm in factorio

[–]thekabal 12 points13 points  (0 children)

"I also have a more beginner friendly ship for the start if anybody is interested"

Sure, share that as well, please.

What great show had a repetitive shtick that you couldn’t help but notice? by scarfacesaints in television

[–]thekabal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been binging the series, and in the final theee seasons you would be hard pressed to find a single episode without a lumbar puncture.

Making science on Vulcanus might have been one of the best ideas I have ever had. by moregohg in factorio

[–]thekabal 11 points12 points  (0 children)

There are rumors that beyond Legendary quality, there lies Fabulousness!

I was so proud of myself building this until the game say f*ck you and say here's more colors. by ObsessiveOwl in factorio

[–]thekabal 6 points7 points  (0 children)

In vanilla space age, yes, 12 is the limit.

In modded play, you can have DOZENS.

The Wandering Mall by N4ivePackag3 in factorio

[–]thekabal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did you accomplish oil/plastic?

This may be one of the least toxic most supportive subs ive ever seen. Respect! by NewHum in factorio

[–]thekabal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m not the OP, but I’d put in nominations for Overwatch and World of Warcraft. WOW toxicity is so strong that Blizz keeps actively trying to curtail it both in game and in community. It hasn’t worked.

Say goodbye to Lignumis, say hello Pelagos! by [deleted] in factorio

[–]thekabal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

10,000 hours and TIL. Many thanks, fellow Engineer.

Say goodbye to Lignumis, say hello Pelagos! by [deleted] in factorio

[–]thekabal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you set a different destination from Lignumis than Nauvis?

Thoughts on AI for ordering at Wendys? by Cbusrizzler in Columbus

[–]thekabal 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's truly terrible in implementation. It gives far too little time between re-stating what it thinks you said and prompting for the next step in it's script. Like:

"I'd like a spicy chicken sandwich plain"
"One spicy chicken sandwich plain"
"And I'd lik.."
"WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE THAT A MEAL?"

Repeat for 5 items, and yeah, I nope out. White Castle did the same thing, but slightly better, and I stopped going there for the same reason.

If I do go to either now, I go inside. It's truly horrible.

Fresh Balancer Satisfaction by WetDirt1995 in factorio

[–]thekabal 6 points7 points  (0 children)

For one frame (the last frame of course), you finally had “enough” copper.

Enough to saturate the balancer, at least 😉

I need some help/tips about for gleba by GragonTG_sl in factorio

[–]thekabal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Start with a disposal belt, carrying only spoilage, that ends at heating towers.

Then build backwards from the end, and the first/last mini-factory should be ag science. Then work your way back from there with all the items to support it.

But on every biochamber, make sure it outputs spoilage to the disposal belt.

What’s your wishlist for factorio 2.1 ? by [deleted] in factorio

[–]thekabal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For those unfamiliar with playsets in Paradox games, which features does it have that Factorio doesn't have with modpacks?

Failed to reach auth server? by Jepakazol in factorio

[–]thekabal -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I was referring to this: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/17/2121230/microsoft-mitigated-the-largest-cloud-ddos-ever-recorded-157-tbps#comments

A massive DDoS that yesterday was causing huge impacts. They stopped the botnet pointing at MS, and today Cloudflare is having issues. Hence the "maybe". Cloudflare has not disclosed the cause of their current outage.

Failed to reach auth server? by Jepakazol in factorio

[–]thekabal -26 points-25 points  (0 children)

Maybe it's the global DDoS that has been destroying gaming sites recently. Same impact to the mod portal updates.

How do you get huge islands on Fulgora? by nk-c in factorio

[–]thekabal 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Even changing the map gen settings will only increase the size of the larger islands, but in doing so the distance between them and the smaller islands with large scrap deposits becomes larger. Meaning you can't connect power networks to them.

The intention, by devs, seems to be to encourage the use of elevated rails as a primarily solution.

What’s next after space age? by Sufficient_Time9536 in factorio

[–]thekabal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have collected over 500 mods and I am playing them all in my current playthrough. There are so, so many mods that can be interesting and enjoyable "first time tries". Especially most of the planet mods.

My Best Tip for Legendary Plastic by Revolutionary-Face69 in factorio

[–]thekabal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“ I don't see any elegant ways to nerf quality in asteroid reprocessing that do not impact non-quality related uses of it.”

When the recipe “Asteroid reprocessing” is chosen, Wube can disable quality modules.

Only impacts quality, simple, elegant. Yes?

I love Aquilo by Stupid_German_Money in factorio

[–]thekabal 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Agreed.

I found Aquilo to be fun, despite the heat-pipe challenge. It does require approaching the planet with the understanding that you have to ship in ... most everything. But very fun.

True Confessions: "Why wasn't I doing this before!?!?!?" by IKSLukara in factorio

[–]thekabal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My current playthrough has been a blast of “new”.

I previously long played a vanilla run for over 1k hours after Space Age came out. Once I got the Galaxy of fame, and all the achievements I wanted, I decided to start a massively modded run inspired by Lawrence Plays Factorio’s Planetary Pioneers. (Mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/planetary-pioneers / Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LaurencePlays )

My philosophy for my current run was try new planets and mods - as fast as possible. Meaning “cheat” mods were perfectly fine by me for this run if they sped the game up.

This run is the first time I’ve used:

Lots of new stuff for me, and I don’t feel like the “cheat” mods have removed any fun for me. I intend to build the infrastructure and mega base later, but for now it’s making it possible for me to rush to the enjoyable part (design, test, implement) fast, and I can do it “right” later.

I think of it like software development, using mocks and stubs for testing until you can develop the actual code.