Thanks for the mod advice. This spawn is pretty tough. Almost no trees at all, sand everywhere. A big biter base very close to the starting resources and I will have to fight through 3 or 4 bases packed closely together to get to oil, and a dozen or so to get additional iron and copper resources. Wh...

Wow... Thank you! I didn't even think to look at all of the settings. I just immediately hit the deathworld/marathon button and saw things changed. But, you are correct. The settings do match deathworld/marathon. The things that changed back to default upon button push were the settings I altered to...

Help!!! I set up a game Deathworld/Marathon, I have to shuffle through a ton of maps to find something suitable and then I play it. I get many hours in and it seems too easy. Spitters aren't showing up like usual. So I check the game string in a new game and it says it is on default settings. What i...

Thank you so much! This helps determine the playability of maps. I would hate to get 40 hours into a map and realize it is almost impossible to win.

What I am looking for is mostly the research cost for all of the researches to get to the rocket and then the added rocket cost. The cost of the factory itself is actually much much less than the thousands of advanced potions needed to tech up to the rocket itself. Defenses have a big cost as well, ...

I used to know where to find this information as some awesome person calculated it out. But alas it has been over a year since I have played and my searches have come up empty. In the past, when I am playing a very hard game, I have always improved the richness of resource deposits to make sure I ha...

Geometry is a rude field of mathematics!!!

I doubt I would be able to beat that map blazespinnaker. The oil is too far into the biter bases for me to access it for initial base defense. I haven't played in a couple of weeks, I am on the verge of gold/purple science. My coal supplies are limited and I have had to switch over to solid fuel. Bi...

JimBarracus wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 17, 2020 12:08 pm

Ammo is not affected by marathon mode.

The red ammo is affected because the steel uses double the amount of iron.

Since I am trying to win without lasers and robots of any kind, I am doing a combination of turret creep, grenades, and poison capsules to clear the necessary nests. I even did flamethrower turret creep by an oil outpost which I never tried before. The flame turrets have greater range and just melt ...

Thanks Koub!

I figured out how to post images. How exciting! Or did I?

This is the current map I am playing on. I have installed the flamethrower turrets around the entire base and have changed over to red ammo and my pollution has gone way up. I am now on my way setting up production of advanced circuits. So I made it to safety without the modules by rushing to the fl...

I tried playing the same map using different combinations of strategies. I agree that being aggressive on biter nests does not pay off. Attacking bases really bumps up the evolution a LOT!!! However, it is likely possible and even beneficial once the flame turrets are up. The real key to victory is ...

From https://wiki.factorio.com/Module

Thank you for that link. I was surprised to see that language on the page for modules considering it is not on the page more specifically for efficiency modules. My bad for not being thorough enough.

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Thanks for the info. You would think they would mention that in the wiki. That might be kind of important.

The thing about efficiency modules is that they require advanced circuits. Getting those produced comes well after flame turrets can be built. However, I do use them in the miners once I get that far into the game. The question is, I know it decreases the electric being used by the miners by up to 8...

Yes, coal rocks do not show up in straight up sand, but you do get a fair number of regular rocks. Coal rocks do appear in desert which is sometimes mixed in a little. The 2 oils spots are individual oil spots on the ground. Not a patch that may have a dozen or more oil spots. Oil never shows up in ...

To @freeafrica, yes good work on your DW/M run. I will try and post a link to my start once I actually achieve something. I have now tried about 20 maps with these settings and lost them all. Obviously, since I am trying to maximize difficulty with default DW/M settings and just maximizing the terra...