After a few false start I've worked out the layout of my marathon factory. finding out that 8 full belts of copper would barely be enough for my early game needs I figured out that there was no way I could keep all the plates I need on my main bus. This is the layout I'm using for now It keeps my ma...

With the max 40% Productivity upgrades on cracking (you would need beacons) the 2xbasic oil processing gives a more respectable 38.96 gas but is still beaten by 4xadvanced oil processing giving 42.72 gas.

I don't use them till I get to rocket silos which gets 40% productivity. Then I work back as needed.but never far back up the production chain.

I know it's better most I've seen but it does get a little messy in the middle. I was thinking of trying factor in research cost and using that to spread it out a bit. It's just a pain to pull the data out of the lua files. If I can get the layout nice I'll work on adding more info into it, research...

So I had a quick go at making a tech tree: digraph { rankdir=LR; {"military"} -> "bullet-damage-1"; {"bullet-damage-1"} -> "bullet-damage-2"; {"bullet-damage-2"} -> "bullet-damage-3"; {"bullet-damage-3"} -> "bullet-damage-4&q...

So I tried to play Marathon a few times and ran into the same problem I would around 20x Burner Miners and 10x Stone Furnaces and be ready to start get my first tech and I would be over run by waves of monsters that I could not fight off with my pistol. Could no work out what I was doing wrong. In ...

So I tried to play Marathon a few times and ran into the same problem I would around 20x Burner Miners and 10x Stone Furnaces and be ready to start get my first tech and I would be over run by waves of monsters that I could not fight off with my pistol. Could no work out what I was doing wrong. In t...