I'm honestly surprised about that. Personally, I find vanilla Skyrim and vanilla Factorio difficult to enjoy. The idea of playing Skyrim without the UI mod is something I wouldn't even do if I got paid to do that. With Factorio there are also a bunch of mods that improve the game tremendously (my o...

thereaverofdarkness wrote:I haven't launched a rocket. I could have launched one ages ago but that's not why I play the game.

I have launched nearly 6000. I'm finding ways to make it so I can just continually produce the necessary pieces without backups and feed my 44 rocket silos.

Funnily i don't agree. Because i firmly believe in a "vocal minority/silent majority" distribution as far as games go. So going by steam statistics is totally fine (especially lacking any other data :P). It's a good place to start, but I'd still say it's significantly inaccurate. RSO has ...

I feel like at some point nuclear needs to be used in research. The centrifuges make lots of the U-238 (dark green) so why not have it be a part of science? You already do very expensive science in the space science packs. It seems to me like there aren't enough applications for the uranium at this ...

Costs are okayish. A radar, a few steel, a lot of explosives (coal and petrol). The production time is quite long however. To clear an area, I'd recommend using a 2 to 4 wagon artillery train - those take 100 shells per wagon, which takes a LONG time to reload unless you massproduce shells. But it ...

Hello, my English is not very good but I will try to be clear, I present my mega base of 640 SPM, 170 hours, with special rules. 1. All the resource options in normal. 2. No bots, only belts and trains 3. With enemies and trying to reduce pollution as much as possible. 4. Never lose anything in bat...

I agree, would like a blueprint to play with myself.

I'm bored of fighting and I will stop improving my base. Use artillery? Once you have overlapping artillery ranges along the perimeter you'll hardly see a biter again. Just plomp them out, ensure they're defended and supplied with shells, and just sit back until the area is clean. Rinse and repeat....

How many bots did you have in each block? Looks like a couple thousand flying around.

Doing 4 parallel stations instead of 2x 2 serial seems smarter. You are wasting the time the train needs to accelerate and decelerate between stations. With more stations that adds up and with less locomotives it becomes more pronounced. Try it with LCCCCCCCC trains and stations in series for examp...

Why 4 locomotives for each train? Seems a bit overkill.

Here's mine, extremely compressed. The pattern is repeatable for a heavily beaconed production modded smelter, no space wasted. Smelter speed factor is 5.4. My megabase runs on this design, usually in 24x24 clusters. What kind of production rates can you get with that? Overall I've produced upwards...

What is the red logic line hooked up to?

I set up something similar. It is set up to be scalalable both in width and height. Bots move raw resources to a requester chest. Finished resources are moved to an active provider chest. The inserted is networked to only work when there are less then say one million a designated smelted item in th...

The entire system is the most overly complicated, poorly documented, system I have seen. It is even more complicated than programming a VCR clock in 1989 with a manual written in hieroglyphics 27 buttons on the VCR and none of them labeled. I did not check this blue print, so this is not directed a...

I just have 2 stacks in my inventory. I just don't see why we can't. We have an indicator to tell us that we have combat robots around, why not ones from the roboport?

Efficiency mods on speed beaconed smelters is an oxymoron. Percentages get added up so the efficiency gain becomes much less effective. Might as well go full speed or put some prod mods in there. They're operating at 30% less power because of the efficiency mods while outputting double the rate. Co...

126 Electric smelters with beacons making them craft at speed 4, fed by 1000 bots. I have 4 trains delivering ore.
I have a smaller site that is also doing steel based on bots - 98 smelters for iron and 34 smelters for steel fed by 3 trains and 750 bots.

I'm trying to make a signal output that shows how many trains have passed a signal. I've never really used combinators and was reading the wiki and still haven't figured it out. Below is the current setup of the cominators. Please let me know where I have gone wrong. light.PNG arth.PNG dec.PNG

I always seem to lose a few bots while my train goes zipping by some remote laser/radar sites. I'd like an indicator similar to the one for combat bots, but for number of construction bots currently out from the personal roboport.