okay, so i slept on this and realized i had made a big mistake, as ssilk pointed out, red and blue belts are really cheap, which was an accident, i have fixed this now.

2 Red Belts = 20 Iron Plates = 2 Yellow Belts + 1 Iron Plate + 7 Iron Gears
2 Blue Belts = 40 Iron Plates = 2 Red Belts + 10 Iron ...

Okay, so i took a long while to look at the details involving this and i came to only one conclusion, above ground belts need balanced first in order to make the system as a whole operate imho, better than it does currently. so to address this i spent time running numbers and a lot more time in game ...

Well after reading, brushing up on some thermodynamics, and then rereading again i find that ssilk does have a point in that it is not a necessity at this time for the game, but i also think that the reasoning is flawed. Particularly that because it is not necessary that it is not useful at this ...

Okay, so i took a long while to look at the details involving this and i came to only one conclusion, above ground belts need balanced first in order to make the system as a whole operate imho, better than it does currently. so to address this i spent time running numbers and a lot more time in game ...