Foreros wrote:Could I ask what has made it appear here?

It's the standard map generator. You could see it generate chunks in some cases. I think it's a simple case of the map "contents" being smaller then the defined map size.

As rocket launches now have something useful to return, I figured this was the logical progression of the RPM bases. And you start measuring "space science processed per time" as metric for base size.

7. Construction density when running an internal belt loop is ~15 tiles of space per lab - roughly the same as with presented chained lab complexes. But you can do more space efficient then proposed: https://i.imgur.com/LXzG91H.png And I'm pretty sure someone will come up with a bigger more compact...

At long last! No more bot construction bot babysitting :D Maybe not the best place to ask, but... are you telling me that you can place a blueprint over a wooded area and the bots will de remove the trees to build over (including a roboport? ). I seem to have missed the way to do this? PS. Thanks t...

If you order pizza with people, do you also take 5 times as many slices as the rest? As that's what your download manager thing is doing, it's abusing the server into giving your more download speed at the cost of everyone speed. And could pretty well explain 1500 downloads, as it tries to download ...

One of the 0.15 fixes had a fix for the mini tutorials disabling the control.lua, control.lua is the thing that shows the launch counter on the normal game. So that could explain the missing counter?

They won't expand, ie won't make new spawners, but they will still send biters to attack you They won't make new bases at new spots, but do they enlarge their current bases? I'm also playing with expansion off, but I have the odd feeling that they did grow/expand a bit. But not as much as they did ...

I also do mini bases instead of mega bases. And I agree with quite a few of your findings. But I do think 0.15 is a VERY good update. While you can have nuclear power quite fast, it's random chance of 0.7% for the U235 caused a few outrages for me. I kept my steam alive for this very reason, base ke...

Did the U235/U238 refinement ratio change in this update? My factory was running from nuclear power just fine, and all of a sudden, as of today, I run out of nuclear power all the time. Were you using productivity modules for Kovarex enrichment? Nope, I'm pre-enrichment. I pretty much rushed for nu...

Did the U235/U238 refinement ratio change in this update? My factory was running from nuclear power just fine, and all of a sudden, as of today, I run out of nuclear power all the time. Were you using productivity modules for Kovarex enrichment? Nope, I'm pre-enrichment. I pretty much rushed for nu...

Did the U235/U238 refinement ratio change in this update? My factory was running from nuclear power just fine, and all of a sudden, as of today, I run out of nuclear power all the time.

One of the FFFs state that the developers wanted earlier "personal bots". My guess is that this is reflected in the 2 different stages of personal roboport, the easier and earlier access to modular armor. And the research towards bots being quite cheap, except for the requester chest. I pe...

The tutorials are just custom scenarios with scripts that are started from a different menu. We've had custom scenarios for quite a while already?

I've used this as control.lua script for a scenario with unlimited resources, including trees. script.on_event(defines.events.on_tick, function(event) --Refill all resources when they are drained. if global.resource_list == nil then global.resource_list = game.surfaces["nauvis"].find_entit...

With the increased power output and less boilers, it makes sense. 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. 2.3:1 might have been a better fit. Then you can do: 2:1 - Shortage of 0...

On a related thing, the amount of coal used seem to have increased a lot? My burner inserters seem to work full time now.

Anyone else had sound stopped working after playing the trains mini tutorial? (Other then that, it worked really well to explain the trains as simple concept)

In summary, I think removing alien artifacts is against the spirit of the game, removes incentives for fighting and exploring, removes incentives to research and make most military items, and will make the gameplay experience a much drier affair. All depends on your map settings. Aliens still hold ...

I did it in 7 hours, without too much planning. I used the biggest starting area, which caused me to drive around with a tank for about an hour to collect the needed artifacts. While the tank does take some research and resources, it makes killing bases a lot easier if you just ram them, and use the...