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For those who didn't see it on Reddit, I have made a video tour of my 2RPM Train based megabase.

Here is the video: https://youtu.be/8PXAw6wAbrk

And here is the reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comme ... base_tour/

Enjoy

Very well done sir! I like your base very much. Trains might even have a much higher throughput than belts do.

Jupiter wrote:Very well done sir! I like your base very much. Trains might even have a much higher throughput than belts do.

Oh yea trains have a much higher thru put and are more much ups friendly.

Very interesting idea!

In the beginning of the 'tour' you pass by the green circuits that feed the RCUs.
IT seemed that a lot of factories were inactive a lot of the time. Probably the use of mixed trains reduces their throughput and they can't move e.g. the green circuits fast enough? Did you consider using multiple trains for a line (e.g. iron/copper below the green line, circuits pickup above it), even at the cost of beacon efficiency?

vanatteveldt wrote:Very interesting idea!

In the beginning of the 'tour' you pass by the green circuits that feed the RCUs.
IT seemed that a lot of factories were inactive a lot of the time. Probably the use of mixed trains reduces their throughput and they can't move e.g. the green circuits fast enough? Did you consider using multiple trains for a line (e.g. iron/copper below the green line, circuits pickup above it), even at the cost of beacon efficiency?

Well spotted, that's because the second lot of green circuit assemblers are only needed a small amount of the time. Basically the ratios are a bit off but it wasn't easy to fix so I left it like that.

And there are 2-3 trains per line but the third seems redundant.

I am now building an even bigger base with bigger trains, more beacons and even more rpm. The design is quite different because I couldn't get this design to scale up as much as needed.