What is the round trip time? And how big is the promethium storage?

I tried to optimize the round trip time with the platform I made and was able to make it about 1 hour. 30 minutes there and 30 minutes back again and it produces 15300 promethium science in that time.

It loads 8500 biter eggs in ...

In general is there a raw amount of inputs to the factory that I should be aiming for to build a "big factory?"

For example, presently I have 4 belts of iron, 4 belts of copper, 4 belts of uranium, and 4 belts of stone coming in. These belts are fed by multiple electric mines at various ore sites ...

Didn't see it before elsewhere: clamping some value to an upper limit with a single combinator.

[L]=value to clamp
[M]=upper limit

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But, in my opinion, the game doesn't really start until after you've launched your first rocket, and then have to figure out how to build a (big) factory.

The game has definitely 2 distinct parts: the 1st part is until launching the first rocket, the 2nd part is building a really large factory ...

I've noticed if I have more heat exchangers that it seems (maybe I'm wrong) to both take longer for the core to reach maximum temperature and longer for it to drop in temperature. Is that accurate? I would then assume that it doesn't really matter how many exchangers you really have or don't have ...

About enemies getting stronger: please follow the wiki links and check the info about evolution.

There are 2 mechanics connected with biters. The first one is pollution triggering attack groups. If the pollution cloud of your buildings touch some biter nest, this nest and adjacent nests eventually collect a group of biters and the group will go and try to attack the source of the pollution ...

Vulcanus is one of the planets you will visit in Space Age. To avoid spoilers I will not say more, just the comment that's somewhat important for your power supply to make sure you have always enough sulfuric acid on Vulcanus.

One recommendation, when you finish your current map with the base game ...

It's super easy to add some monitor. No combinators required. Just a simple condition in the speaker, usually.

This monitors one of the fuel cell requester chests of my nuclear power plant on Nauvis:
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(what you see here in addition, 2 accumulators, is a remains of a power ...

It's nice you realized how important the power supply is, but I would say your approach is a bit overengineered.

What is the reason you built the never failing power supply for your power supply? So the main power supply can never fail. But whatever the reason for such failure is, you need some ...

The game isn't about fighting enemies. They're entertainment, but not supposed to be a real threat. The game is about building a factory and solve the logistics and constructing challenges connected with that. The base game is somewhat easy, while the Space Age dlc has more of these construction ...

I was kinda assuming the snippets you made is what is used to build modern computers? I added all the delays to achieve something that I found out is called concurrency in computer science? So that's why I used them. I felt these are the basic building blocks of building such a machine so I didn't ...

If there is an open dialog window partly outside the game window, and the dialog window is automatically resized by the game engine without user interaction, it jumps fully into view.

Happens every time some part of the dialog window is outside of the game window, no matter if its to the right ...

About bloat and simplicity. About simplifying goals and not making 100% solutions. And about creating specialized solutions instead of chaining pre-made snippets.

It happens I continued my efforts to build legendary items. Some end products can be crafted best by upcycling them, and others can be ...

I've seen it, I know what it's about (built a big auto-mall myself), I know about all the challenges this includes, and I congratulate you for achieving a working solution.

However I didn't comment, because I didn't want to discourage you. I respect your work. But from my point of view, you used ...

Given the challenge to create all kind of legendary quality production buildings has been solved and you're able to create these,
what is the difference between a set of factories made of normal quality buildings producing normal quality items and all 12 science packs, to a set of factories with the ...

The easy way is the deconstruction planner. You almost found it. Customize an empty deconstruction planner and add the "item on the ground" placeholder from the Unsorted category.

You did a direct and simple approach, however you need a large amount of combinators.

If you calculate the raising and falling level every tick, you don't need any memory cell, but you get much noise. So you need some kind of moving average to smooth out noise.

You can use a Kalman filter (linear ...

And usually the real limitation is not game design but lack of versatility of particular players.

This is definitely true. I see this lack of versatility with myself, and I try to overcome this by checking what other people do. I have even overcome my ignorance when it comes to quality. And if I ...

I don't know why, but for some reason it eluded me it I can unload iron and copper ore directly into foundries and distribute infinite molten ore in just one pipe across the whole base. That screenshot is from the time before that, in fact it's a migrated 1.1 design. I'm currently redesigning my ...