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Re:Factorio 1.0 by m463 on Friday August 14, 2020 @10:42PM (#24165436)
Is that what the goal is? I've had so many goals that I didn't realize were intermediate goals until afterwards.

I was thinking the ultimate goal would be to find the edge of the map and wall everything off.

(I still haven't met my goal of really understanding rail signals)

I also wonder if there isn't more in store. For example, I don't see what paving and reinforced concrete floors are for. Will there be wheeled robots, or (sigh) burrowing beasts that can go under walls?

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Re:Factorio 1.0 by trylist on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:10PM (#24165566)
Concrete makes you walk faster, no?
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Re:Factorio 1.0 by Choco31415 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @02:42AM (#24166580)
Correct. The walking speed bonuses are:

30% faster for stone brick, 40% faster for concrete, 50% faster for refined concrete

Speed bonuses also apply to cars/exoskeletons making overall travel faster.

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Re:Factorio 1.0 by m463 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @05:18PM (#24172480)
Oh great - now I will wear 3 exoskeletons AND pave the earth. :)
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Re:Factorio 1.0 by louwrentius on Saturday August 15, 2020 @07:08AM (#24168006)
AFAIK the game has no edge.
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Re:Factorio 1.0 by m463 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @05:16PM (#24172469)
oh my. It did have an edge in the tutorial scenarios, I just assumed.

Maybe I will just wall off all the passages from nearby bodies of water.

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Re:Factorio 1.0 by foxyv on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:21PM (#24189365)
It depends on the map settings. You can either have infinite procedural generation or limited area.
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Re:Factorio 1.0 by kortilla on Saturday August 15, 2020 @03:54PM (#24171823)
Its like 1 or 2 million squares out.
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