The current lack of such an upgrade force the spamming of robot ports to handle massive recharge operations when using massive numbers of bots. Increasing the robots battery will not help with the problem. It would just mean that the robots spend more time being charged. The MW output of the ...

But then what does "Absorbed per damaged tree:" do then? I thought this was the way pollution got absorbed by trees.
When polution gets too high it can damage trees. You probably won't notice this if you clear the trees around your factory as there may not be any trees left in chunks where ...

Back to pollution:
What does pollution do well? Essentially - it's name. The moral idea of you destroying the planet of the biters and them attacking you for it. That's what's good about the mechanic.

But that is not what this mechanic is about. This is not a enviromentalist propaganda game ...

If you personally don't like the pollution mechanics, then you can effectively disable them using the advanced settings when creating a map.

I doubt the default game balance will be changed based on your objection, especially when you have the option to customise it to your liking.

Another island spawn, 0.15

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Does anyone else feel the 2:1 ratio is a bit boring? Now you just put 1 pump, a row of boilers, and engines directly connected to it. No room for optimalization.

I don't find it boring.

Finding ratios is not really that hard. 2:1 is no easier than 7:5 or anything else. The same goes for ...

I found it now too. Prerequist changed to Robotics instead of Logistic Robotics.

It appears that Worker Robot Cargo Size is now missing from the tech tree.

When looking through the tech tree, I have been unable to find it. In particular looking at techs enabled by Logistic Robotics (where it was previously) I only see Logistic System, Character Logistic Slots, and Character ...

Loving the new underground belt distances, but, as many have pointed out, 5,8,11 would be a better distribution...
+1. Here's a comparison of different gaps relative to the typical main bus design:

http://i.imgur.com/0JOQhLo.jpg

5-8-11 allows to cleanly upgrade from yellow to blue ug belt.
I ...

You have to have no steam engine production whatsoever (not just no steam engines currently) within a full hour of solar panels producing 10GJ, iirc. And I mean a full hour even if your panels can hit the number in a minute. Open your electric network window and select the 1h time frame to verify ...

My nukes so far have killed all behemoth biters in its radius (though I have researched rocket damage up to ~4000 space science requirement). From what I read here, isn't that supposed to happen?
I am guessing that the OP read the specs of the nuke and posted without testing it in actual game play ...

From what I saw in your video you don't have enough heat exchangers in you setup.

As per FFF 173, the neighboor bonus increases the number of heat exchangers that a reactor can support. 40 seperate reactors should support 160 heat exchangers which is what you show in the video.

With the ...

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This style of balancer does not work as desired.

The only reason that it appears to work in this gif is because the item types are different on each side of the input belt. If both sides of the input belt have the same item type, then you ...

From what I can tell it is always better to build more labs than to research Lab Efficiency. Have I missed something?

Researching Lab Efficiency 1 would require 100 Red+Green Science packs. Total raw resources would be 750 Iron Plate + 250 Copper Plate. With those same resources I could build 16 ...