I'm not sure I understand this bit: Longer pipelines have higher throughput, but take longer to fully empty I thought the whole point of this was that steady state throughput (i.e. once the network is "full") would be independent of pipe network and depend only on the source and sink machi...

If I'm reading the bot code update right did they just re-invent a form of RTree?

I find this interesting. There at first seems little point to recycling perishables in an attempt to improve their quality, since they will keep decaying anyway. But now I wonder what stack-merge-split trickery could be used in a quality improvement loop for this purpose. I think it's going to larg...

1) All research are on Nauvis. I like the idea, but that also means the new science packs can't unlock any new recipe while you are stuck on the new planet, which would mean you can't tie the new recipes to said tech, and so the planet specific tech can't be locked to the new science packs, only po...

The spoilable science packs actually make me wonder whether building labs is going to only be possible on Nauvis in the expansion - otherwise it doesn't seem like it would be viable to build them anywhere other than Gleba to minimize spoilage. It would also give your Nauvis base a reason to still ex...