Thanks for all your responses! The reason I was asking about this is because when I play, I feel like adjusting factors in the world gen, pollution, and enemy settings is just neglecting in-game features that are designed to deal with this sort of thing, and I end up missing them because I don't ...

Hey all! It's been a long time since I've played Factorio (steam says Jun 7th 2019, but the last time I really put time into it was probably between 2016 and 2017), and I just recently became enthralled with some of the FFF updates I've missed, and it's made me really excited to start playing again ...