I don't think I'll bother with the initial phase, but I might do the rigorous math once you factor in crafting time and electricity setup. I think I already did it the quick and dirty way once for electric drill and the duplication time was around 5 or 6 minutes, very far from the 1 min+ from my cor...

You could apply linear algebra to the problem. Theory x is your assets vector. A is the production matrix: if you do nothing your asset increases by A. x (during a step or infinitesimally). It's a square matrix each of whose column represent production of an asset in the asset vector. R recipe table...

Crafting time The burner mining drill recipe has a crafting time, but the critical path goes through the last iron ore, the last iron plate, and the mining drill recipe. So we can account for the crafting time by doing nothing for the first 4 + 3.2 + 2 = 9.2 seconds of the 10 minutes. I'm not sure ...

A lot of very information on this thread, and your python script is surely invaluable in designing strategies. A lot of points remind me of Rain's speedrun guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Kqc6JaSQs notably the part where he says that the earlier you build a machine, the more value it will g...

Yet another (hopefully original) solution if you want to post in that other subforum but they won't let you use combinators. https://imgur.com/a/201UZu8 Electro fluid transistor, using pumps to their full maximum (enables universal logic) fluid metastable system, exploiting fluid mixing restriction ...

I would love to see the game evolve to the point that real green behavior was rewarded:. Play fully green = biters leave you and your base alone. That kind of gameplay would be golden. With expansion off, it's already possible (maybe you need to clear some space depending on settings). With expansi...

I just want to be able to plant trees, it's ridiculous we can launch a rocket into space, but can't replant trees. Need some research and build requirements. Sputnik was launched within 3 years after it's initial conception. A tree takes 30 years to grow. I personally am not against replantable tre...

In my last no spoon run, I had bots up within 3:45mins. Now this can be done even faster as my Bot facility was 4 roboports away from my basic mall (caused by some inconvenient ore patches that I need in between). You won't always have oil nearby... The no oil nearby is a huge fallacy. Even assumin...

If I can disable it, I don't see any reason not to include the option. It should obviously disable most achievements (and you could add new ones as well that mere humans could struggle to check without advanced start).

I put the map exchange string in the new game section buit none of the settings chnage Probably because the map has the same settings as those you had, which is not surprising if you haven't started a new map in between. If you want to be convinced it works, go to new game and change the settings b...

I would love to see the game evolve to the point that real green behavior was rewarded:. Play fully green = biters leave you and your base alone. That kind of gameplay would be golden. With expansion off, it's already possible (maybe you need to clear some space depending on settings). With expansi...

Simple test of the gameplay mechanic is this: For a factory with a given output (let's say 1 science per minute) Is the pollution cloud larger or smaller when using Efficiency modules + beacons, compared to using the standard prod/speed modules & beacons? For a single recipe, the result is triv...

Yes, size has a more dramatic effect when you also have very high frequency because lakes are more "shallow" to begin with. This results in many lakes drying out completely when you decrease the water level. Further out lakes get "deeper", so at around pos +-1000 to +-1500 they ...

Artillery is supposed to be the way to attract biters and spitters. perhaps your artillery stops should be behind walls or well within range of turrets The OP sounds like already doing that. An automatic train witht artillery wagon should only shoot when stopped at a station (if you drive it manuall...

Yes but what if you do, for instance, still wish to craft cannon shells in your inventory as well? drop a chest down put plastic in it order to craft all Electric furnaces Delete the chest, gathering the plastic. order to craft all canon shells Easy as that. I see this making the "craft all&qu...

I know I'd have my armor and tools stashed in my escape pod for damn sure. What if there were only 3 inventory slots in that pod? (I would personally go construction bot, roboport, and probably assembly machines I guess, maybe electric miner or even burner drills. Three because you start with a fur...

Solution 0 : Building by hand. Have you included "placing rails while driving a car/train" in "Solution 0" ? But he was speaking specifically of placing rails while driving. He was speaking specifically of placing rails by hand while driving. Sure losing bots puts a hard limitat...

If anything Map preview allows you to spot and avoid island spawn without wasting loading time. It doesn't always. I've had 2 island spawns in 0.16 where I've started on a tiny island just a few tiles away from land. The preview looked good, and it's hard to tell where exactly the game is going to ...

Europe does a pretty good job of [nuclear power safety regulation]. [No It doesn't]. I'd tend to agree with Nubm2, Areva for example has perfected a good habit of falsifying safety test and trying to sell malfunctioning parts in the past years (or decades, who knows?). Granted the fact they got cau...

Then I need 2 blueprints for everything. And you can't just make a landfill blueprint from something you build. You have to make the normal blueprint, place it somewhere, remove all the paths, make a new blueprint without paths. So rather annoying. It won't necessarilly solve everything, or make th...