Of course the problem with this balance is that people first trying Space Age, if they're anything like me, will look at the tech tree and choose Gleba for those bonuses, and then wonder why they ever left Nauvis.


Do people not look at the planet tips and see the big uglies skittering and ...

More physical damage tech, the turret damage scales geometrically with it because the tech boosts both the ammo and the turrets. So a turret at tech 7 will effectively deal +300% or 32 with red ammo (double ammo damage* double turret damage) while at tech 9 it will deal +476% (2.4*2.4=5.76) or 46 ...

Hello, long-time Factorio player here.

There is one pretty big balance problem with Nauvis in Space Age - The starting planet, with first 6 science packs available, gives the player no options to defend against Behemoth worms, or even to push into heavily infested areas once the evolution goes ...

you can fit 4k wire into the rocket.

Set up a wire assembly near a bunch of rockets and let it run.
Air-to-ground shipping of Steel is free (albeit inconvenient).
Ground-to-air shipping of Copper %whatever% is not free. Given that it needs precious blue circuits, it's VERY not free, I dare say ...

Somebody already mentioned Coal Synthesis, but if you don't have that you can also send explosives up, they have a rocket capacity of 500 IIRC, then you can use iron from space mining to make the rockets on the platform. It's how I get rockets on Gleba before coal synthesis.

i've done both of these things, for the turrets i wire a circuit that recognises the ammo decreased below the auto insertion limit (the amount of ammo that sits in the turret from the inserter), this fed into a latch/memory cell circuit that held the desired state for 5 seconds. it needs this ...

In my setting I made minimal temperature 550*C

I am sceptical that this is sufficient to maintain uninterrupted power at full load.

It's pretty simple at the 4 core stage once you consider that heat exchangers have the same heat capacity as pipes,


I completely forgot the heat capacity ...

My solution is to keep the reactor temperature above a threshold all the time, so that all heat exchangers always stay in the "working" state. However, it's not sufficient to just insert a new cell if the temperature is below that threshold. You still need a buffer, at least with some bigger ...

I think Fulgora and Vulcanus are deliberately more productive than Gleba because Gleba's science packs go towards better techs. The initial buildings from Fulgora and Vulcanus are great, but of the techs that require those planets' science packs the only that compare well to Gleba's techs are ...