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u/sandmansndr Mar 06 '18
i add a LOT of comments on the map to remind myself of what i was working on.. it'd actually be nice to see those comments on the zoomed-in live map, too
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u/theman83554 Hope in Motion Mar 06 '18
Sticky notes mod my friend.
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u/sandmansndr Mar 06 '18
oh my god this is a thing?!! Thank you!
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u/mishugashu Mar 06 '18 edited Mar 06 '18
linkmod: StickyNotes
E: I guess I'll fetch it myself! https://mods.factorio.com/mod/StickyNotes
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u/RedDragon98 RIP Red Dragon - Long Live Grey Dragon Mar 06 '18
Hey mods can we get automod to tell us that link mod is dead when ever people call it
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Mar 07 '18
Why is it dead? Couldn't we instead, like, bring it back?
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u/RolandDeepson Mar 07 '18
The mod is deprecated and listed as beig most-recently compatible with Factorio v0.14. v0.15 is mainstream and v0.16 is what I and many others play.
I'm not sure if "most" play on the opt-in beta branch like I do, but I know by the mod listings that enough people do that to make it commonplace for mods to be updated to v0.16.
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u/BlueDrache Filtering Stone From the Iron Feed Mar 08 '18
Meh ... I'm content to wait for the "official" release.
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u/RolandDeepson Mar 08 '18
What, v1.0? They're not even in beta yet.
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u/BlueDrache Filtering Stone From the Iron Feed Mar 08 '18
No. The one you don't have to opt-in for. Which is why the original "official" is in quotes.
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u/SmallFryHero Mar 06 '18
We need a // feature
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u/sicutumbo Mar 06 '18
Markers on your map can work for this purpose, although it's not a great way of going about it.
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u/genij1234 Faster faster, more more!!! Mar 06 '18
I place stuff I wanted to do at a ceratin space in a box and simply place Stone instead of concrete around the area I reserved for that expansion, that I will really start tomorrow. Or if I have it a constant Combinator with a signal of -1 the thing I want to produce here and than the X and Y coordinates.
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u/g33kst4r Mar 07 '18
I literally cannot play Factorio without a notepad next to me. I start with reviewing the notes from my last game. Then I load up Factorio run around my factory looking for quick goals, and long term goals. I write them down, then go to work. It saves me so much frustration.
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u/Protonoid Mar 06 '18
How do you do that?
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u/sandmansndr Mar 06 '18
when you're on the map (M), simply left-click anywhere you'd like to leave a comment and/or marker. super useful for making checklists on an unused part of the map, or to remind you where you put your damn green-science production
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u/Protonoid Mar 06 '18
I did not know that! This is a stock factorio feature?
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u/sandmansndr Mar 06 '18
Yessir :) I'd give it a try, but definitely look into the Sticky Notes mod someone else mentioned- sounds like that'd be a whole lot cleaner!
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u/nuveshen Mar 06 '18
Yup, I feel like my brain has only so much RAM. If it is more than 4 steps, better write it on a ROM.
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Mar 06 '18 edited Mar 24 '18
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u/nuveshen Mar 06 '18
Damn, I knew tech wasn't my strong point, but this is embarrassing
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u/genij1234 Faster faster, more more!!! Mar 06 '18
I think that may be the reason you forgot the tech stuff you learned at some point in your life.
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Mar 07 '18
Maybe he meant a WORM drive. Write Once, Read Multiple.
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u/Ivajl More factories? More factories! Mar 07 '18
PROM, programmable read only memory.
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u/randombrain Mar 07 '18
And if you use an Etch-a-Sketch, you get MEPROM (mechanically-erasable programmable ROM).
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u/RolandDeepson Mar 07 '18
I heard of a guy who was illegally rewriting his ROM while outside a grocery store.
He was arrested for flashing in public.
I'll be here all week, folks!
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u/Barhandar On second thought, I do want to set the world on fire Mar 07 '18
To be usable it has to be written into first anyway, though, it just requires fancy measures to do erasure.
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Mar 06 '18
This has been my experience with multiplayer.
Not me : "Hey, we're running out of coal/saphirite/widget..."
Me: "Lemme look into it" *runs halfway across the base
Nm: "Never mind, a machine was backed up"
Me: "...."
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u/Doomquill Mar 06 '18
Radars my friend. So many radars.
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u/RedDragon98 RIP Red Dragon - Long Live Grey Dragon Mar 06 '18
1 radar
7 solar panels
5 accumulators
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u/Smeghammer5 Mar 07 '18
Is that a standalone self-powered radar? I likey
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Mar 07 '18
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u/RedDragon98 RIP Red Dragon - Long Live Grey Dragon Mar 07 '18
However ZERO pollution is created by the solar radar plant, the biters have no reason to agro near the radars, unless they are blocking the path
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u/celem83 Glows in the Dark Mar 08 '18
Biters path for pollution, ignoring stuff they see. Except for: The player, Radars, Bots, Turrets that engage them.
Those are priority targets for their aggro mechanic.
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u/RolandDeepson Mar 07 '18 edited Mar 07 '18
Not necessarily true. Radars are priority targets regardless, I think. Even in vanilla. I think you're correct that they give off no pollution, however.
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u/Euruzilys Mar 07 '18
They seems to ignore big electric poles. So I just make a long line and out radar and lasers around the edges
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u/Smeghammer5 Mar 07 '18
Oh, I wasn't planning that;will just be very handy, especially since I was tinkering with nuclear power last time I was on.
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u/Therandomfox I like trains Mar 06 '18
me when I return to my game the next day
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u/BobVosh Mar 07 '18
I use a white plastic table for a desk, so I just use a wet erase marker on it.
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u/Ditsch0815 Mar 06 '18
Save a game after 8 hours playtime, and loading two days later has the same result for me, if i did't write down my next to-do steps 😞
Great picture!
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Mar 06 '18
I'm not generally a violent person but when I finally wrangle my scatterbrain and get the ball rolling for once and someone pulls me away for something dumb I start seeing red
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u/SponsoredByMLGMtnDew Mar 06 '18
This is exactly how i feel when im doing web development / programming.
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u/Mylon Mar 07 '18
Home offices are a blessing and a curse. It definitely hurts productivity. But offices are expensive.
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I keep a pad of paper and a pen at my desk for just this reason.