The newly-added "Technology price multiplier" setting at map creation has validation on the input box, but apparently no validation when reading from a map exchange string. This string sets the price multiplier to 0.1, which makes a lot of achievements pretty trivial to get: >>>AAAPABMAAwA...

I suspect this isn't a bug? There are plenty of achievements that are mutually exclusive; "Solaris" and "Steam all the way" is the most obvious pair, but there are others that aren't really reasonable to try for at the same time. I strongly suspect that "lazy bastard" a...

I've been preparing to look into it. The research change means I pretty much have to redo all my calculations, and preliminary investigation seems to show that it's going to be a *lot* harder post 15.X. On the upside, the elimination of alien artifacts means you don't actually need any of the bugs a...

I put two fuel cells in at the same time (well, technically one followed very quickly by a second) because I wanted to test exactly that. The "stutter" happens even with fuel ready and waiting.

An issue cropped up that I suspected was related, so I dug into this further. The related issue is that I was trying to do "steady state" measurements of various nuclear setups, but I noticed that the temperatures kept periodically fluctuating, and I quickly determined it was happening at ...

I think your math is off for the ROI calculations. Resources/kW You list the cost of 1kW of solar/accu power as 2.2 raw resources. As near as I can tell, you arrived at this number by adding the cost of one solar panel (67.5) and the cost of one accumulator (64) and dividing by 60 kW, the peak power...

Thanks. I figured it was a minor issue, but the procedure seemed to be to let you guys do the triaging. I don't think this is a floating-point issue, though - the effect is several orders of magnitude too large and the resulting fraction is too regular. It's as if the reactor is running for an extra...

Only one.

Now that I think of it, only one reactor is required for the demonstration, as long as it's fresh-built. That also simplifies the console commands to print the temperature.

The temperature rise of the reactors is 800.004444C. Because nuclear reactors have a heat capacity of 10 MJ/K, that means 8.00004444GJ were burned.

Edit: I see what you were getting at now, I failed at decimals.

I gave my test procedure (admittedly in a very abbreviated form) in the original post. I used the temperature of the nuclear components (once the fuel was completely burned) to generate 500C steam, which has a well-known energy/unit, and then counted the steam with the console. By varying how many r...

Steps to reproduce: Build the layout shown in the screenshot. The first command was run with everything fresh (both reactors at 15C). Then I manually inserted 1 fuel, let it burn to completion, and ran the command again. The discrepancy is 100% reproducible for me, no matter how many times I rebuild...

Plenty of people are talking about the ratios of nuclear reactors to heat exchangers to turbines to pumps, and how much energy water tanks can store now that we have 500C steam. (Answer: 2.425GJ!) But I haven't seen anyone run the numbers on how much energy is stored by the reactors and heat pipes t...

After having going through various iterations of my 48x48 design, I think I can make some definitive statements about the efficiency of various solar strategies. The TL;DR is this: the most space efficient setup is to mix solar panels and accumulators together . For a pure solar layout, the best we ...

I like the 48x48 optimal layout w/ roboport, but I really don't like substations. 4 medium power poles have the same coverage (better, if you space them carefully) and take the same amount of space, while costing far fewer resources. Usually I don't even bother researching Electric energy distributi...

I don't think the math is a slam dunk for using Productivity Module 3s. Each Productivity Module 3 requires 5 Module 2s, 5 Blue chips and 5 Red chips. Each Prod Mod 2 requires 4 Mod 1s, 5 Blue chips and 5 Red chips. Each Prod Mod 1 requires 5 red chips and 5 green chips. Total cost for a Prod Mod 3:...

Right. The screenshots show full capacity, I.e. the final form of the base. 1/3 capacity on the iron just means 1/3 of the mining drills and 1/3 of the smelters, but placed in the correct places. (And all the belts set up properly.) There's no need in the early game to spend the time, resources, and...

First off, thanks everyone! I'm glad this has been useful to so many people! Targa: Yeah, I think all the buildings were made by hand, there's no reason not to. And there's every reason to do so - your character is essentially a flexible assembler 3 that requires no power and creates no pollution. I...

Check through the tech list - do you have the concrete and other stuff? If all you're missing is the electric engines, I'd say you have a shot - it'll take you ~54 minutes to make 200 electric engines with a yellow assembler, or 1:29 with a blue. Make sure that you get all the productivity modules i...

Yay! I'm glad that my guide was able to help someone!

Thanks for the explanation. I get why I was confused now - my build doesn't even research red or blue belts, but you were just saying that *your* bases try to have a single express belt bus.

Sorry, I'm not a regular (yet) on this forum so some of your terms went over my head. What's a 3/3/6? And I think I get what you mean by bus, but what do you mean by "bus only one blue?"