I like none of this. They are getting defensive about the criticism quality received. It looks like they are trying to add early game bloat. The research triggers look super annoying. Maybe on your first play though that’d be nice to keep from being overwhelmed, but for a game with such replayablility it looks like it keeps you from working ahead.
It seems like these are good ideas for Factorio 2, not an expansion. They should just keep to Space Age and not mess with their beloved game mechanics.
Also having infinite research for rocket parts makes no sense. Having infinite research for mining productivity works because it makes you have to update how you manage resource patches for the increased productivity and throughput. Without that you’d just stamp down the same outpost in the late game. It basically forces “tiers” of outposts. How are you suppose to design a factory around a decreasing need for green circuits? That just seems annoying.
Hey, sorry to see people using downvotes to disagree when you are clarifying what you don't like and why.
Personally I'm positive to the changes and their intention: Making the endgame less static, because there is always something that can be adjusted a bit after a bit of this research.
But I still want to see other people's differing opinions. Be nicer, everyone. <3
Lemmy downvotes don't hurt my feelings. I appreciate the thoughtfulness of your comment though.
I'm worried that the developers have reached the "can-do-no-wrong" level and any criticism is taken personally by the community. I just don't think the changes they are adding to the expansion "fit."
we added a new method of researching a technology. Instead of processing science packs in a laboratory, technologies can now be completed with a trigger.
I hope this doesn't break the planning involved with needing to balance research and factory expansion. I don't want to be handed oil processing just because I extracted some oil. On the other hand I also don't want to be hindered if I think of that in advance and set up processing infrastructure before I start extracting
I am currently playing the seablock modpack and I can see this feature being useful in the sense that as soon as I have the production of a sciencepack setup I can research all the way to the next pack without utilising any of the technologies, where this update would be able to force me to produce the products of the new technologies before I can research more technologies.