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-- RochefoucauldEvery drug should.
The War on Drugs has been a failure and an absolute disaster on every level. It causes untold suffering that could be alleviated by making currently illegal drugs legal and regulation them, just like ordinary pharmaceuticals are regulated.
They just aren't as tolerant as a society as they used to be.
So should alcohol be illegal? Because it's manifestly clear its effect on society is horrendous.
The Netherlands have been under the control of a conservative government for a long time now, and countless coffeshops have been forced to close under their rule. Banning magic mushrooms is just par for the course.
The Netherlands used to have a well-deserved reputation for tolerance, but that's been wearing away for decades now, with intolerance for everything from Muslim immigrants to drug users.
I say this with a heavy heart, as someone who absolutely loves the Netherlands for everything else it has to offer, and who used to be in awe of how tolerant and accepting they were.
There was a day when the Netherlands could be justly proud of leading the world in tolerance, but that time is over.
I hate to beat the modding horse in to the ground, but, yeah, I'm pretty sure there are mods for this. Try searching for "belts" on the mod portal and you'll probably find a bunch that do what you want.
In my experience, whenever I've wondered if there might be a mod for something I wanted, the answer has been "yes, there already is one, and more."
It actually takes some serious creativity to come up with an interesting idea which hasn't already been turned in to a mod in Factorio.
Don't think I'll want to try Space Exploration if it's even worse than SeaBlock.
I'm excited.
Shapez was fun for a handful of hours, but I really don't see myself spending hundreds, nevermind thousands of hours on it like I have on Factorio.
Still, I agree with you that there's some missing depth in the game that no mod has yet been able to fill for me. I say this after sinking (pardon the pun) thousands of hours in to the game and having a tremendous amount of fun.
Still, it could be deeper in some way.. not sure how.. maybe by adding some LLM/AI of some sort?
Maybe you could increase their evolution rate, pollution, or give the Rampant mod a try.
Try the Rampant mod, if you want a challenge. There are a bunch of other mods that add different/tougher enemies too.
That said, the focus of Factorio was never combat, it's building. If you want better combat there are many other games that focus on that.
Also, this video[1] by Soulless Gaming on "How to Fix Train Path Errors" has a lot of useful tips on train/signal troubleshooting.
I just plop down a refueling station, and a requester station next to it that refuels the refueler and I'm done. Don't have to worry about it again.
Chain both in and out is supposedly the foolproof method, and apart from stations, rail signals are just an optimization.
Though I've played a lot of Factorio, I've never really felt the need to dive deeply in to signals, and I'm happy to just use the foolproof method and leave more optimized solutions for those who need them.
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's enough space for your longest train to stop behind a rail signal (and you wouldn't mind having it stop there).
I can also recommend the cybersyn mod (or LTN). Once you understand one of these mods it makes dealing with trains much less of a hassle.
After my first vanilla playthrough I loved the game, but found a bunch of things annoying or which I thought could be improved on. Soon after I found there were mods to satisfy every one of my wants and cure every one of the annoyances. I've played with mods ever since and love it.
Want longer reach? There are mods for that.
Want faster travel? There are mods for that.
Want more variety in vehicles? There are mods for that.
Want smarter/tougher/different enemies? There are mods for that.
Want a complete overhaul of how the game plays? There are a bunch mods for that.
...and thousands of other mods beyond these.
You're really missing out by avoiding mods.
Lua has been a modding staple across countless games, so millions of gamers/modders are already familiar with it.
I'm convinced that chosing Lua for modding is one of the main reasons Factorio has over 5000 mods now.
If they'd chosen a more obscure language I'd doubt we'd have nearly as many.
There are also many mods that let you pump water from anywhere.
Mods are what keep me coming back.
In the decade or so that I've played Factorio, I can't even remember a single crash of the base game. It was always mods that crashed.
Factorio performance is also fantastic, running smoothly on potato PC's until you get in to the megabase range. It's mostly mods that cause performance problems, but even those have gotten a lot better over the years.
The Factorio devs could really give a master class on how to make games moddable. Factorio's ecosystem of over 5000 mods is a testament to that.
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 game that's officially supported and which all other mods will have to be compatible with instead of the other way around.
Apart from the space part, which is arguably already present in the Space Exploration mod (a mod made by a developer who got hired by Wube to work on the official game, if I'm not mistaken), this new expansion promises:
"the ability to control train systems better, better blueprint building, better flying robot behaviour and many more."
That sounds great to me.
I'm really surprised that in all these responses to your question no one's mentioned the womb or the mother, who (at least with current technology) is still necessary for making a human.
That's not to mention the necessity of the egg.
We're not just DNA.