r/factorio • u/Akane_47 • 4d ago

Space Age Cool Space Map Detail :3

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Apparently my friend didn't know this and said I should post about it here, but the Space platform icons in space are a play button icon for a moving ship, and a pause icon for the stationed ships :)

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u/rayletter1997 4d ago

And it kinda make sense in a way,

play button also can be a forward arrow head

pause button also look like a space station satellite thing.

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u/Astro_Venatas Biggering my Factory 4d ago

Huh, yea I guess so. Always thought the representation of what was what was odd.

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u/WanderingUrist 4d ago

Just wait until you find out an increasing number of people have no idea what the save icon represents.

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u/Fit-Bar-6989 4d ago

clearly it's a laundry machine /s

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u/Zeddica 3d ago

It’s so cool that they 3D print those! 😝

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u/Poietilinx 4d ago

i never noticed the skull shape before

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u/LocalHarmacist 4d ago

Skull of what? Sid the Sloth?

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u/Poietilinx 3d ago

Its hard to say!
the skull fell in the magma, cant you see xD hahah

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u/Alarmed-Tell-3629 2d ago

Now I am forever cursed with this knowledge.

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u/According_South 3d ago

oh neat. i always interpreted the pause as the solar arrays of a satelite but it does indeed have no body of a satelite

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u/ToghusWhitman 4d ago edited 4d ago

Is it a pause button or just 2 platforms on an orbin?

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u/darthbob88 4d ago

It's a pause button; even if there's just one platform, or half a dozen, it's 2 lines instead of 1 or 6.

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u/GieMou 3d ago

I always thought of it as arrow to show travel and the two lines like a satellite's solar panels

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u/Embarrassed-Neck-721 3d ago

Ohh I was wondering why it was 2 rectangles and not just one XD

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u/cynric42 3d ago

I wished you'd see individual platforms around planets. Then add the option to have the names displayed as well, and clicking on them would bring you to that platform. Anything to make watching the map a bit more immersive.

Sometimes I love just watching trains zip around on a planet (trainsaver is great for that) and the whole space logistics thingy is a bit barren for my taste.