Wait, are the speed penalties and bonuses separate ? I assumed that there's a -30% coming from two production modules, and a +50% coming from every beacon, so one beacon affecting one smelter would give +20%, or a 1.2 multiplier. 4 beacons would be +200%, for +170% or a 2.7 multiplier overall. 4 bea...

It also makes beacons completely worthless since you can't put productivity modules into them. Beacons' current implementation in the game is pretty half-baked to be honest. There's no point putting effectivity modules into them since whatever power you save through that is lost in the half a megaw...

Needs more explosive rockets.

The big lesson here is that inserters always place on the far side of the belt. Here's the research arm of my factory, for example: http://i.imgur.com/n1VaJtA.jpg Since green is being inserted from below, it is placed the top half of the belt. Since red is being inserted from above, it is placed on ...

Wait, productivity modules can only be used on intermediate products? *loads up game to check* Dammit. I thought I was being clever by assuming I could use productivity modules in every step of module-III production to dramatically reduce raw material cost. Now I've got to redo all those painstaking...

Or good luck, depending on your preference for difficulty / degree of masochism.

Licenses for fraps and Sony Vegas alone come near to 700 dollars. Note that the Fraps part of that only comes to ~40 US dollars. Recording software is fairly cheap. Editing software, on the other hand... Personally, I find the trickiest part of recording to the audio side of things. Arguably, the b...

I was joking. You're correct on all counts, of course.

ssilk wrote:And what every player knows: There are always some ores left in reach of the base. That should be mined first, before making another ore train.

Your suggestion is too sensible. There is never such a thing as too many trains.

Do you have separate logistics networks? I believe the whole construction robot stopping in midair thing happens because there is no storage space available in the closest logistics network. Removing roboports fixes the issue because they then default to the next closest logistics network, probably ...