50 hours? Gun turrets? You dun goofed. Laser turrets are the king of base defense. Gun turrets have some niche use to prevent damage, but the cost of ammo is so much higher vs. the cost of repair that this is a moot point. Just get lots of lasers. Your energy issues can be addressed by filling your ...

2700 solar panels? Oh my gosh. That's so cute. I just want to pinch your cheeks, gothraga.

If you are having trouble with base expansion, it is time to learn about blueprints.

Lighting operations only matter for the immediate visible area around the player, so the computational requirements are fairly fixed regardless of map complexity. Besides, isn't this the kind of work that gets thrown off to the GPU? It shouldn't matter that much or at all on the CPU side of things.

You can sort of do this by tying the recipes to a new structure. If you want a low pollution recipe, link up with a clean assembler. If you need a very polluting recipe, use a grisly assembler.

Computers are kind of made to do math so it'll be fine.

I'm not sure where the sharing part comes in. You mean to someone else playing with you because there was no talk of sharing between characters from the devs.

If you can share blueprints between your own maps, why not share them with other players? It's not a big leap.

The problem isn't so much with a continental start, but rather with water being completely impassible.

It would be great to have some materials that can cross water. Such as rail bridges or boats.

It would be nice for some of the materials to find their way into other items, rather than being ONLY rocket materials. For example the low density structure would be a nice replacement for steel in the Power Armor MKII recipe. Currently both variants of power armor use the same stuff, just differen...

I'm pretty sure there's an upgrade planner mod that does exactly this. First you set up which buildings get upgraded and what they get upgraded to, then you deploy the yellow zone and let bots go at it.

This being a sandbox game, the only real answer is: because they're cool Pretty much this. Regular unmodded map settings will get you to space without ever really NEEDING to use trains. Everyone else pretty much covered the major points. Trains let you move vast amounts of resources (or yourself) a...

Replacing solar electric with solar thermal could be a neat thing. There are some pressing issues however. 1) Closed liquid loops don't function very well. I've seen the nuclear mod attempt it and it's not pretty as the fluid system seems to need air bubbles to work properly. That's a major reason w...

It's pretty tough to hold ground on that final mission. Mostly the issue is keeping the supply chain going for the turrets. It's dangerous if you take too long and drain your finite resources too hard. In the campaign the map size is finite, and nests are finite. The simplest solution is to march ou...

Biters will attack in three major ways: 1) Random spawn patrols. This is where biters migrate in search of a new home. Sometimes they will walk through your base and cause trouble. This is pretty common if you are on a shoreline as empty islands will trigger the patrols. When these attacks DO happen...

It would be nice for vehicles to have modular weapon slots. That way you don't need a separate vehicle just to use X item.

The best solar solution is going to affect the net value of panels as little as possible, while achieving the maximum output in how players have to rethink their gameplay. I don't think that's an unfair statement to make. That being said, there have been multiple solutions brought up in this thread ...

What's such a downside to having an energy star[:)] compliant base? You're just going to run every device on permanent hot standby? How will you expect to expand into CPU breaching territory if you won't cut CPU cycles where they count? It's practically a requirement for everything nowadays. The pro...

Now that research is more of a flow based system there's nothing wrong with slowing down the research speed. The flow system actually sped things up quite a bit as you get research during the entire cycle instead of at the very end. It's even possible to finish a topic in less than one cycle. Labs t...

Also, I still find randomized power generation not that of a good idea. Either it is just a way of making solar/accu more expensive as I outlined That's not exactly true. In the grand scheme of things a single cloudy day per week is not a huge loss of energy. However it makes a HUGE difference in t...

Meh. Monitors only display a single layer of visual output. An underground layer means you have to constantly switch between 2 views. No matter what the player is only going to be able to read half of the game's info at one time, and that is a big issue when it comes to providing a clean clear UI. Y...

IMO the best way to address this is by expanding the pickaxe system. Early game having only a mining axe is perfectly fine. However the player may want different options on what they choose to grab. In this case something like a "falcon glove" to catch flying things or a "jackhammer&q...