I'm not an expert on this, but I understand Nuclear hurts UPS on megabases, due to the steam. I'm currently running nuclear, at 3.4GW, and still getting full 60 UPS. Not sure at what point it becomes an issue. I believe most very large megabases rely on solar for this reason - which you're using - s...

aha! I saw your wiggle lane changer a week ago on a different thread, and it confused me - thinking, why on earth have you done that when you can make the intersection much smaller etc. Now I understand!

Nice! thankyou. I can see some benefits of the split to 6 rails as per your picture. I've already started redesigning (below) with my new plan, and if that doesnt work out, i'll probably revisit that design you posted - thanks! Heres my new intersection design. Only converted 5% of base so far, but ...

Nice, I've gone for a modular design, where there are areas, and all areas are the same size. eg an area may make green circuits. if you need more green circuits, put down another area. copy/paste. Its working kind of well, but the intersections (the circles) are where i'm having issues. Originally ...

You know things are getting crazy when you put down a BP, and immediately you get the "bot warning": 400x T3 Productivity required, and 300 T3 speed reqd, and 700 blue belts, (and many other minor things). (and I already had a 2-300 buffer of each module!) lol. So, Bulldog, hows the plans ...

I think you're going to find the PG to Solid Fuel section will be redundant and unused. You'll need all the PG for plastic and sulphuric acid. I realise this isn't your main production, but I'd still outsource any PG back to the main oil area, to be included in that. Having said that, seeing as you'...

I do suggest using mods Angels Infinite Ores, and Resource Spawner Overhaul (RSO) - it means you get a percentage of an ore field as being much much richer (like goes forever, same way as oil does, but richness % drops down over time (but still produces)). As someone else mentioned above, in a no-b...

+1 for Bottleneck and SqueekThroughMods.
I'll have to look in to the ProgressiveRunning, that sounds useful.
What does the MiniLoaders mod do?

Hey, zOldBulldog and I are both on the same mission. I've been going for 3-4 weeks now, hundreds of hours, and still haven't even built a rocket silo. The base is now far far larger than the minimap size. About to (finally) start turning some of it on tonight, to test the design concept in earnest, ...

I've just been going through the same questions on my megabase. And I'm sure everyone has struck this design challenge at some point, with varying solutions. To add to your issues, imagine if you have a staging station as well, so after iron is loaded at source, it then goes to one of several waitin...

My book often has so many BPs in it, using the mousewheel is annoying trying to find the one I want. Instead I just open the book, and take the BP out. Then once my inv gets too full of BPs, I put them back in my book. As a side note, the whole BP thing has had extensive changes for the next version...

The megabase I'm doing is built using districts/areas, and trains to move everything around, so I need acid trains anyway - may as well just get them to also visit the uranium mine when required.

Turrets, For the reasons you're finding, I only use gun turrets in the starting phase of the game, and once I have got far enough, I do laser turrets alternating with flame turrets. Having gun turrets reloaded with bullets (either by belt, or bots), is just annoying. Especially once you get to a ver...

If you're wanting to try megabase - did you minimize the amount of water, and turn off cliffs when you generated the map? You'll find water and cliffs get realy annoying when trying to make such a large base. Personally I like lots of water, even on my megabase maps. In general I think that advisin...

I wish doing alt-tab to switch to a different app, didn't toggle the "alt-mode" at the same time. Should toggle it just if alt is pressed/depressed by itself.

If you're wanting to try megabase - did you minimize the amount of water, and turn off cliffs when you generated the map? You'll find water and cliffs get realy annoying when trying to make such a large base. Most people also turn off the biters, so they can just focus on megabase. You'll probably w...

Once I have gotten to about "blue science stage", and have sufficient iron plates being made, lubricant available, and maybe a dozen or 2 logistic bots, then I tend to put my "belt blueprint" down, and this then makes all 3 colours of belt, underground, and splitter. After then I...

Have to agree, I have a couple of really large "district" blueprints, which require fully zoomed out placement, and sometimes where overlaying them to an intersection, its hard to spot that a rail is colliding with a signal for example. Collisions show up in red at the moment - I wonder if...

I typically do one (or more) trains per supplier station. Don't have a train going to multiple supplier stations. Then you can disable the destination stations when they don't need anything, This will cause the train to stay at the supplier station. But yes youre right, if you have a single train go...

And of course, you can always post any questions here when you get stuck. Chuck in a screen shot, and people are always willing to help.