Moshine

by snouz

Hot planet to develop AI, 26 technologies, 2 new minerals, 5 buildings, many items, custom terrain, music, unique challenges...

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g Great mod, some thoughts

17 days ago

I just left some feedback on your also excellent Panglia mod, and just wanted to share feedback about Moshine.

I love Moshine! It does some great things. I like the electric trains, amazing accums + solar. The planet's research being independent is also cool. The "multi-ore" mining is a good sorting challenge and gets you going quickly. A few thoughts/ideas:

  1. Possibly more could be done to call out/explain the long research times. I know that's effectively "the gimmick" and I think it works well, but there was a bit of "sticker shock" when I first started.

  2. I did have some difficulty getting going on the multi-ore to start. In particular, it took a long time, maybe 10+ minutes, for me to see my first neodymium ore. I think this was because I was using legendary Big mining drills with a high level of research prod. This appears to create a pattern where it sort of "cycles through" the resources. I've seen similar behavior with other "mixed mining".

  3. I would love to see at least one more type of AI core. Since these AI cores are taking the place of regular mods, maybe adding one that affects productivity would be interesting. The efficiency mod wouldn't really be useful since you get free power on the planet anyway.

  4. Small bug report - the neural computers seem to have some kind of speed cap, or aren't properly benefiting from legendary cores. I have two neural comps side by side, one with legendary t10 cores and one with epic, and they are running at the same speed. (3697.54, which is +147802%)

  5. Pretty sure this is programmatically impossible, but it would be really cool if you could work on multiple research projects at once. In other words, my regular research labs can continue on whatever they're working on while the Moshine neural computers do their research. This would give me much more of an incentive to keep Moshine going after I get what I need.

16 days ago

For 5 there is https://mods.factorio.com/mod/simultaneous-research
There is also a suggestion thread on the factorio forum to make that vanilla, so far no response from the devs, since it would be useful during regular space age already.

16 days ago

Right on, thanks!

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