You should tell more about your game if you want more detailed answer. Well I'm just starting to get a bit more ambitious with my factories. On my last map I used the RSO mod to produce a train friendly spacing of resources with hIgh water frequency set to very big, which produced an interesting ma...

As we all know, blue belt is exorbitantly expensive in terms of resources. For this reason, I have so far avoided using it in my factories, and as I generally move from belt transport systems to bot transport systems in the main base, so far I haven't missed it. Having just started to look at other ...

Bit too easy for my taste

Suppose it might be good for beginning a speed run

Awesome stuff!

You find yourself looking for a new FFF on a Thursday night!

A common occurrence with refineries is an imbalance in consumption of the three products. I find keeping the the production/consumption of these one of the big headaches, particularly in the mid game, particularly if oil is in short supply, as it means you cannot use the production and burning of s...

I have no hesitation in recommending the RSO mod which makes trains far more relevant as you have to travel longer distances to find resources, sometimes having to fight the natives to possess them. If you also use the Big Brother mod, then you will have radar which you can upgrade to deal with the ...

What I also want to say is, that I don't understand this kind of grimm. Belt transport vs. Bots. Bots vs. Trains. Trains vs. Belts. The poll was never intended to be a Bots v Belts or anything else war. As I already said further up I use both - belts for loading trains and bots for unloading trains...

Of course you need to control production then somehow, cause you cannot use locked-buffer-production for this. Yes indeed! I've just got my first train going in my new RSO map that I'm playing which delivers iron ore to the main base. I found some oil patches near the ore outpost so spent some time...

Right now the flamethrower is much much cheaper although that's arguably because its damage mechanism is completely broken (in the sense that it's totally exploitable). I've not really explored the possibilities of the flamethrower yet. In my first 0.13 map which I played vanilla, oil was in very s...

Really looking forward to the 0.14/0.15 roadmap.

The new biomes look good, but I think it would be a great idea to be able to specify the dominant biome during map creation, so that you can have worlds that are mainly desert, mainly grassland, or mainly tundra etc

Personally I advocate destroyer bots coupled with Power Armour 2 but you need a follower count of at least 50 to take on more than one at a time. Poison capsules are also good as has been mentioned before. If there is a really big concentration of them then I tend to go for laser turret creep, as it...

Maybe an OpenTTD trick may work here?

You add a station to the route you want to the train to take and schedule a stop there for 0 seconds.

This forces the train concerned to take that particular route.

One of the reasons I use the Fluid Barrel mod....

IMO Fluid handling is due for a major overhaul.

I'm hoping the devs will do something in 0.14

Bugfix release 0.2.3 is now up on the mod portal.

This fixes a bounding box bug which prevented the placement of a double thickness wall vertically.

Bot based train stations are superior in almost every way except cost. It's less of an advantage on the loading end, since you don't often need extreme throughput (exception: huge ore deposits), so belts are often sufficient. Currently I load ore etc with belts as it saves on setting up a logistic ...

We seem to get a lot of belt train unloading systems posted in "Share Your Creations".

But I've been wondering how many of you use bot systems instead like I do.

If you wish to alaborate on your vote, feel free to do so in the comments.

Poll will close in 3 months.

Go!

Ratzap wrote:Technically it wasn't on a Friday but we'll let you off.

Actually it was - according to the forum time stamp Kovarex's post was at 22:50 UTC on Friday 29th July.

But as most of us are on daylight saving time at the moment it may have appeared that the post was on Saturday.

Reinforced Walls 0.2.x is now released check the Mod Portal entry to download the new version (link is in my sig). I would love some feedback as to whether I have overcooked the resistances, but then by the time you can research the acid resistant wall you will almost certainly have big spitters vom...

The 0.2.0 version is now up at Github. This adds research for a second wall with acid resistance, and improved physical resistance to the double hitpoints version. Originally the intention was to add an upgrade to the existing wall along the lines of bullet damage etc. Unfortunately resistances aren...