very nice base! you can either expand or take the challenge of fitting things closer together. believe me, you can fit all science pack production plus modules and capsules inside your current walls. ;) if you choose to expand, remember that biters are attracted by turrets. this means, you can build...

wow, this is amazing! When I played the tight spot challenge, with the solar panels, I calculated how many miners, smelters, assemblies etc. you would need to feed one solar panel assembly, and I thought it was beyond crazy. :D So, you did it! And in a very nice way, too. congratulations! I would lo...

this script would be perfect for the tight spot challenge. I did that with a pen and paper to get my factories balanced, which is actually the point of these missions, rather than using few space.

It would be great to have it read directly from the game files though.

I always thought that the belts-to-ground should be extended by one tile, so you can under tunnel the refinery and the typical belt-inserter-assembly lines. However, it would be ok to have just the advanced underground belts extending over 5 tiles.

krayziez wrote:i just added solars and accumulators. took me 3 hours

why don't you use blueprints?

looks really nice! but what are you planning to do with a 16 belt highway?

you want to use the oil first for direct use, second for storage and third for cracking. so you have to do a setup like this: Refinery ------ Cracking Plant ----- pump>>> ---- Storage ------ pump>>> ------ Other chemical plants The output from the cracking plant has to enter the pipe of the next oil...

the link still doesn't work, it seems.

just upload the image as an attachment to the forum. below the textfield there's a button "upload attachment".

sure

I made a very compact layout that outputs one of each, red and green, every two seconds. You can upgrade the assembly lines to double the output. This should be enough for your research. You can add a couple of storage chests for buffering, so if you don't do any research or don't use green packs, p...

nice design. however, one tier 3 or 2 tier 1 circuit factories should be enough for this. maybe you can make this even more compact.

I think everybody here agrees on that there should be a way of sharing blueprints and the devs know it. but it's never bad to remind them.

@Silkk: Since I found out about the belt-to-ground trick, I'm using it all the time. It's very useful for large belt-based factories. Of course, if you switch to logistic robots as soon as you can, you don't need any expansions to the belt system. But some people just prefer belts to robots, because...

sure

I think that if you reduce the price for each science pack to 150 instead of 1500, the hardcore mode would have a reasonable difficulty.

I just finished the last level of the tight spot campaign. Instead of the required 15000$ (difficulty: hardcore) I got 154358$, so more than ten times as much. :D I have two assembly lines for blue science that run both most of the time. Production is pretty well balanced, apart from a slight overpr...

yes, that was my thought too. That's why I wanted to not include the scripts. However, I don't know if I will ever publish something, so for the time being I can just copy the files.

Or maybe somebody else knows a way...

hi

I was trying to make a custom tight-spot map. Is there a way to require/link the scripts and locales from the tightspot mod from my control.lua? Can I define some kind of dependency?

I'm playing the new tight spot campaign and I noticed that the production time for solar panels is very fast. Let me make an example: production time for a solar panel is 0.5s you need at least an assembly line 2 to produce them, so every 0.5 / 0.75 = 0.666667 seconds, a panel can be produced in jus...

The blueprints are an amazing feature, but I just use them in my home base, because that's where the roboports and the provider chests with the needed materials are. However, it would be cool if I could use them also in small outposts. For now, I need to bring a roboport, the robots, chests and all ...

About the tower creeping: I don't like the solution you (kovarex) propose. It would be more natural to tweak the biter AI in a way that makes laser turrets useless for attack. for example: Biters stop following the player if they get close to a turret and their home base is still near. This way you ...

Hi there I was thinking of a simple solution to the problem with the pipes sticking to each other, making it impossible to have two parallel pipes without using tunnels all the time. I don't like the idea of having lots of different pipe elements, like curves and T-crossings, because that makes the ...