If it helps, I set all to max, including starting area size, and first signs of oil and uranium were around 3 times away from me in terms of starting area boundary(don't know numbers).
Coal , I had over 60M right next door, but I did pick the map I wanted after a few dozen previews.

Have a look at the last piccy I posted, do you see a green light on each factory ? The mod is called Bottleneck, and as a poster above said, I cannot imagine playing without it ! The lights can be green, amber or red. Green means factory working, amber usually means blockage at output(belt or storag...

Now you have me doubting myself, maybe I was wrong and I got that from bob's ?

Infinite Worker Robot Capacity Research Now this is something I actually consider cheating :roll: But also something that has irritated me that was not part of the game as standard. While it does boggle the mind how a logistic robot can carry 3 x Rocket Silos inside the cargo space, I still would h...

Don't ignore Text Plates, it is very handy, especially when like me you're 50+, absent minded and smell of wee

p.s I use bob's logistics because the MK4 bot is faster and carries more, making it 5 times better at deliveries than the standard vanilla bot. This means you can use 5 times less bots to save a small amount of cpu/gpu cycle time

Not using wind turbine as it is so powerful you might as well have free electricity, needs balancing a lot. Besides I love designing nuclear power plants :) Also not using teleportation. Flare stack to give it the Blade Runner look and feel :D Hey I think I would like more power without covering th...

Not using wind turbine as it is so powerful you might as well have free electricity, needs balancing a lot.
Besides I love designing nuclear power plants
Also not using teleportation.
Flare stack to give it the Blade Runner look and feel

Thank you all !!
Superb ideas from all of you

Just setup an Artillery coverage for my base to alleviate pressure on lasers, and that could work for rail. It will take time but would stop biters building close to tracks.

I have a huge main base doing alright for itself. I am now venturing in to rail for the first time on 0.17. The biters are plentiful and very aggressive !!! I can only see laying rail down with laser spam protecting it. Is there another way ? Can I leave rail, lights, poles and signals to their own ...

Bob, you're a genuine Factorio hero :) All others, when I downloaded the experimental I said "many bumps on the way !!!" . By the nature of its name it will have bad releases, calm down as I can tell you, as a 50+ year old who was gaming before any of you "ammo racked your mum's lady ...

BlueTemplar wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 27, 2019 2:57 pm

I'm not sure that is possible, I generally use :
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ChangeMapSettings

ty Will download.

Thanks all, very helpful
(I do kill all when changing state)

I will venture out to setup a remote camp and see how it goes !

How about this : How do I read these values from inside the console ?
(Console command pages have 100s of command for setting but not reading)

(below is standard starting screen, not my current game)

As previous post :
After setting them to peaceful mode, I set it back to the opposite(aggressive).
I set expansion to true.
But they are a bit limp now, not as aggressive.
Not sure what else you want me to post ?

Something still isn't correct. They are not as vicious as before.
Anything I can do ?

Possibly solved. I think even if biters are radared(and I see them not moving on map), they don't update on map until I visit them at least once

I used --->>> /c game.player.surface.peaceful_mode = true; game.forces.enemy.kill_all_units() to set biters to peaceful in 0.17 to do some tests. After testing I used same command, but changed true to false, and noticed many biters are pointing same way and not advancing, whilst others are advancing...

Why don't belts require power ?
It's a gameplay decision at a guess