12 becons and 4 in the machine give 1600% speed

.5 / (1.25*17) = .0235

at 2300% bonus speed is the range where you get into the tick production

fixed*

... What really ruins the game is when others post their builds which are nearly perfect and there is nothing left for me to improve. Now I am stuck using that design as I can think of anything better. ... You could resolve to only use your own designs, that's what I do. It doesn't have to be bette...

Oh wow I never thought about the tick limit.

I am assuming you can still produce 2 copper wire in 1 tick?

What happens as you approch this limit. I.e. 1.5 tick craft time? do you get 2 crafts every 3 ticks or 2 every 4 ticks?

I am really confused all this setup changes is the number of requester chests required. You still need just as many robots to transport science packs and there average distance traveled will be about the same since they are in the middle of the grouping.

I love mini bases. I yellow belt of copper and iron was all I used to launch a rocket in 0.14

That simply is not as practical now as the new science is way more expensive. My new mini base is going to have to start with a standard 4 copper 4 iron and 1/2 of stone

Watching KOS play her new marathon map you can clearly see how punishing over building can be. Let me ask you this would you build 8 smelting stacks to feed 1 gear machine? how about 1 smelter? No because clearly one is over feed and one is under feed. In the same way you can get is close by eyeball...

Ya the new science is VERY expensive. I tore out my original base to just start with 9 smelting columns.

GGAAAHHHHH spolier tags

I knew I should have played more, my fault for looking at the thread though when I had not done any white science packs

Very nice, and yes I also love the challenges with limited parts

In the spirit of automation we need a very early game coal powered tree harvester that tears down trees marked for deconstruction and a mid level "requester chest" that can only request trees.

Ha ha I was just thinking the same thing

I feel like the rate at which biters spread has been decreased. And the additional HP makes 2 shots a lot less likely but other then that they feel about the same

But the real questions is what is the optimal number of fish farms for the fish bus

I think factorio has 3 levels of replayability 1. Just throwing down stuff and making it work 2. Playing enough that you "know" where bottle necks are going to appear and basic ratios memorized 3. Setting a goal "1 rocket per minute" or "self contained blue chip factory"...

So I am about 3.5 hours into 15.2 and I get my 24 blue science set up. Yet it is not working. I pick up all the inserters and replace them. Still not working. I pick up all the AMs and replace. STILL not working. I check the power and it is all fine. FINALLY I check the recipe to see what I am missi...

I have to applaud you guys for keeping the price low. While disappointed I essentially paid full price I have to agree the bigger the community the better the game. The better the game the bigger the community will get i.e. positive feedback loop.

Biter clearing is easily semi-automatable

10,000 power poles in a grid
10,000 lasers in a grid
robot ports in a grid

blueprint and spam

Makes sure you have enough power

Spread sheet or it didnt happen

Dont forget you also need to account for power > 10% and increasing otherwise they could turn off and not turn back on unless you drain enough power to get below 10%

The problem I see is factorio is very deterministic. Statistics needs more randomness doesn't it?