A wall, 3 rows of laser turrets, flamethrower turrets at max distance in front row, and bots with repair packs... will stop pretty much anything. Add routine visits of an artillery train to remove newly migrated nests... And you are in great shape. Or for a simpler option, disable biter expansion in...

There are two common ways of doing this: 1) You can deliver fuel to your most frequently used stations, then refuel trains when they go to those stations during regular routes. 2) You ca n use a logistics type of train network, like the vanilla Haphollas or the LTN mod. In those kinds of networks tr...

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Thu Jun 06, 2019 3:36 pm

You missed the troughput table, obviously.
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The collapsed one... yes. That I think does the trick.

The throughput table per #pipes is on the Wiki Thanks, but I had seen that. Not very useful. Let me ask the question in simpler terms: Assuming "max pressure" is achieved, how do you calculate how many parallel pipes are needed to carry X units/sec? Here is a cut/paste of what it says. Pi...

Question for fluid gurus. All discussions I've seen over time about fluids revolve about pumps, pressure and consumption. For example, an offshore pump outputs 1200 units per second, and as pressure drops with distance, the level in the pipe drops and with it the optimal number of turbines or boiler...

I might be wrong, but I think he meant "heatmap" as a term to indicate %full. If that is what OP meant, there are a couple things that might be useful to keep in mind: 1) Fluid tanks tend to equalize to the same level. So, reading one tank in a set is probably "close enough". 2) ...

Not really a bug, a design choice that assumes that you have good hardware. Your magic knowledge of @darklich14's hardware is impressive. It only takes a little attention while reading his post to notice the phrase "FPS drops to unplayable on mediocre hardware". It might also be better to...

[Koub] Moved to Gameplay help Looks more like a bug report to me (i think it was in interface requests before?). "Artillery spam > causes pathfinder overload > causes performance problems." Not really a bug, a design choice that assumes that you have good hardware. I won't say it is the b...

It is obvious that you are frustrated, but your frustration is making your post not very clear. I think you are saying: - If the pollution cloud reaches the biters, they are activated. - Once activated they cause a huge UPS hit. - The UPS hit goes away once you destroy those nests and kill their bit...

Module consumption goes in waves, so I could just go un-beaconed and allow a few hundred to accumulate while I work on other stuff. That's only for the ones you put into machines. But you also consume modules for production science (PM1) and rocket control units (SM1) I wasn't worrying about those,...

I will keep this short: Is there a way to change the station in a train, when you already have the schedule set up? Say I have a whole elaborate system with conditions made, but I just want to change the station (but not the conditions). I have this setup where I have a train resupply my defensive ...

Thanks Koub. - I had made a small unbeaconed setup to start, but I will definitely make a beaconed setup for volume. - It is placed at the end of my malls mini-bus, so that it does not starve my other production lines of circuits. Ironically, it is precisely to fill the smelter and circuit outposts ...

Much is possible, but is there any experienced player consensus? I originally thought that the standard beacon/module arrangement (productivity in the assembler, speed in the beacon) would be a no-brainer, making things more productive/efficient. But an assembler making modules will not accept produ...

Achievements become permanently disabled for a map if you use commands. There is a way to re-enable them but it is difficult (Google "enable achievements" to find the thread that explains how). Also, if you use mods you will be switched to the Modded achievements list. It is separate from ...

I probably should mention that in the month since my last post a new mod popped up: Next Gen Evolution. The mod lets you control how evolution happens by playing with both the vanilla and mod's settings. You can: - Make biters behave as I hoped (pollution cloud *touching* biters + destroying nests) ...

That seems really effective :) It is very effective but not trivial. You can do it in a more limited manner early on, but to do it effectively I found it works best with Nuclear power, bots and yellow-science chests. Then you need to: - Have enough power available. In the base you see it was 2 480M...

Bioindustries also looks interesting if you want to add complexity. Next Gen Evolution let's you change the game drastically if you work with the settings, to the extent that you could play a game where you are only punished by ecologically unfriendly behavior but punished harshly. Schorty's air fil...

Mischief managed!

Or rather, pollution controlled. Using Schorty's Air Filters.

I find that BlakeMW's 480MW reactor is the easiest place and forget setup. If you need more power simply plop another one. The simplicity of duplicating more than makes up for the small percentage of neighbor bonus that you lose from going with 4 instead of more reactors. The blueprint is a few post...

Request and provide threshold are accounted for separately to allow mixed Provider/Requester stops. Set your Provide threshold to 1M or something like that for pure Requesters. There is also a mod setting for default thresholds. I tend to set both default provide and request thresholds to a few mil...