Correct me if I'm wrong buuuut..

The placement of the belt has to synchronize between your local client, the server, and all the other clients. Every client calculates the simulation of the entire world in simultaneous lock-step. So the delay you're seeing is the time it takes for this entire ...

My man you seem really upset about this

Little update. Spent a few hours in creative mode today to get a better idea of what I'm going for. 120spm seems attainable with a modest bus/starter-ish base that I've put together

Here's my plan for this base: https://kirkmcdonald.github.io/calc.html#zip=dZLbasQwDET/Jk9r2O0WCoF8jGrPpqK ...

FFF 236 was an interesting read. As for never starting again, I have been trying really hard to do that for the last two games or so. Planned out my map in creative mode as far as I could. Made it to bots for the first time and it quickly became obvious that the design wasn't compatable with bots ...

Pretty much as soon as things in my map start to get out of control. I don't mind a fresh start but man I'm never going to launch a rocket at this rate.

I've played probably 10 or so maps in factorio now, all of which I've deleted because I feel like my designs have gotten away from me. The furthest I've made it so far is blue science at 60spm. I have a hard time building on top of things that I don't fully understand (re-did my oil processing so ...