I'm interested in how much gets revealed how fast. The campaign alludes to the idea more radars = faster radar coverage. Can you show us some screenshots?

I barely understand what all the settings buttons actually do. Never been able to generate ore or water in amounts that seem to correspond with what the buttons say. Figured one setting must affect the next or some such magic. Ask for lots of iron and tiny uranium - get the opposite. Small oil patch...

Campaign stuff. I agree with much of what Eradicator says and like the layout he presented for an expanding campaign. Having ship wreckage strewn all over the larger area will allow for all sorts of 'introductions' to tech. I love campaigns, the bigger the better, but in digestible chunks accessible...

Most people suck at driving the car at first. It gets easier if you don't give up...

The green factory, likewise, was a lot of fun to make. I got jumped putting in the coal (top left of green factory) my machine gun wasn't enough. I had to run, run, run to the nearest power for lasers only just making it in time. :D So far the biters seem hesitant to send expansion parties towards m...

There's a lot of coal by the steel so I've converted some of it into power. Added some rail stations. Steel's done. Factories12Steel.jpg I've identified a good spot northwest for green circuits with loads of copper and iron. Building to the north will be good, it will break up this 'line' of factori...

Factories12SteelSnake.jpg Up and down and up and down... At this site, one small and two larger patches of iron provide almost eight red belts of iron ore yielding just over 1.5 red belts of steel out of this coal driven dual snake set-up. I've nearly died a couple of times now. When I forget to pa...

Thought I'd mention my take on rail for the Factories. I don't imagine throughput will be an issue. Except the ore for concrete, 0 ore is shipped in trains. No ore or (oar? :D ) plates will be shipped for steel as that will be made directly off patches as well. Even the red circuits got away without...

I have to agree with players who say to exploit the natives. Though this goes against my environmentalist real self, it suits the game. I suggest Biotech. GE. Research into DNA and protein manipulation to turn biter colonies into domesticated creatures for other purposes (food, medicine, beasts of b...

I'm really happy with this red factory. All components are sourced locally. 20:24 refineries are running which is spot on as only 120/144 planned assemblers were placed. Slipped a landfill train in here. A landfill train is an idea I got from Nilaus. Very useful to have on standby. Factories9Redfill...

On defense: I have decided to try a fairly minimalist approach to defenses. As pollution is turned off I am not dealing with enraged aliens that have come looking for me. Rather, I'm clearing bases in the way of my expansions. The Alien expansions, however, are becoming more frequent. They've popped...

I like the way you've worked this out. There's a devil in the details of scaling up and you kicked its ass. Feedback round these parts is rare. Just check your thread views people come and look. Then some go off and do what you thought up on youtube and call it their own. These are Factorio's 'exper...

Haha this thing! Factories7Red.jpg I messed up my measurement it's only 62 assemblers per side (instead of planned 72 a side to total a gross) as I put the darn copper wire assemblers in as well. I got room to pull them out to the sides so might do that if I need the extra reds. For now it's jammed ...

This red circuit factory is getting large fast. The 12 refineries only make 1/2 the plastic I want; so 12 more to go in. Am matching smelting/production line lengths to the limiting resources ore patch size. In this instance iron gets 80 smelters and so 200 copper smelters are added to match the 1:2...

This gear factory needs finishing touches but it's fully functional. Side loaded smelting I've not done before. Not having to force more production from patches/machines has freed up design considerably. If I need more gears, I can make another gear factory, or enlarge this one. Factories5Gears.jpg ...

Some adjustments. Fixed the outflow of stone ore with more belts and a balancer so it looks and performs better. Found the tiniest bit of coal outside the Stone Works. As this tiny bit is also infinite, mined it for a handy train refuel source. I ran green wires from the rail station chests collecti...

Factories3StoneWorks.jpg That's the stone issues solved for now. Concrete, hazard, walls, gates, and lots of bricks. I've brought some ore, steel and circuits in from home to make gates/concrete, but will reroute that train to the proper respective factories as they are made. I want a steel factory...

Campaign First Steps: The insistent speech bubbles and sound effects are annoying. It says push a button you push it and... do it again, again, again... Nearly over it by this point it's patronising and badly designed. This is before a player has even started. Why not a cut scene of a crash? Cut sce...

OK. Started playing a map with the intention of building Factories: emphasis plural. I installed a quick start mod it gave me a bunch of assembly 1 machines, power, etc to kickstart the game - and most useful - construction bots. There's potentially a lot of building to be done. The map settings I c...

Factories is an idea I came up with halfway through another map so I don't have a full example yet. But, it is a simple concept. Factories is about being able to build and expand creatively across the map, without stamping out factory clones. Instead, multiple types of factories can be made, each de...