In my first game with aliens on very low settings and without spitters i thought distractor was really strong. Now i'm playing with big alien bases and with spitters and they don't do much. Evolution is maxed out i think (big spitters and big biters everywhere) The most resource effective way i have...

To continue the mad rambling: Maybe one thing for the persistent resource could be "Ancient Alien" buildings scattered around the world. When powered up they generate some new kind of resource "Ancient Alien Artifact" for example. But the powered ancient buildings could maybe gen...

At the moment probably world of tanks although i haven't played it since i started playing Factorio 2 weeks ago. Before factorio i mostly payed Victoria 2 (for around a months, i play tons of different game), i'll probably play more of the Paradox grand strategy games once i'm bored with Factorio. F...

Seems like a non issue to me. Just set all resources to very high richness. They last for like 20 hours then.

I personally haven't had performance problems yet, i played for around 50 hours now. First game 30 hours. Now 20 hours in second game. I played a bit with task manager visible and the game was using just 8% max on my i7 2700k. So it wasn't even maximizing 1 core even though i had a pretty big factory.