Shipping the plates, rather than the ore, by train is more space-efficient than shipping the ore. Ore stacks are 50 and plate stacks are 100, so you can fit twice as much material in a train car. I already figured that out, its also more space efficient to make that plates at the outpost rather tha...

In long games, everyone eventually has to do this unless they wanna pick up their entire factory and move it somewhere else, or spam shittons of belts (which is cost inefficient by comparison). My first factory is 40some hours in, and I have 3 different train loops, one for oil, one for iron, and n...

So while I was playing one day I got the idea to make huge automated mines away from my factory and then bring the materials to my main factory by train. I've never seen anyone else do this, anyone out there who does?

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