The problem I saw wasn't that there was a 5 second delay between base building, it was that the cooldown happened before they moved into position to build.

The bitter would wait out the cooldown outside of turret range, run in and instant base.

I think the biter should have to move into position ...

Targeting priority based on the "vibration" level of the building. Miners cause a lot of vibration and are therefore a high priority target, while belts and inserters don't vibrate much at all and are therefore low on the target list. While power poles don't cause any vibrations and therefore aren't ...

I think someone already said this, but I'd like to second it. I want bigger versions so they're easier to see.

Maybe 1x2 (for text only?) like Nixie tubes. or 2x2.

What do I think? I think I don't want to play this game again until this is playable. Please let us play test it for you!

My partner and I wanted to know how many of each resource we would need in order to create X of each science pack. So I made a spreadsheet to answer this.

Then I got "but what if I also want an additional Y of some component?" Uhhh... okay, hang on.

So, having done all of this, I thought I'd share ...