Peaceful mode vs The fight - which do you prefer?

[myguyfromthe80s]

Hello all, thanks for having me.

Recently purchased and finished my first play through. I did it on peaceful mode to get used to things, but it got me thinking.
Does the enemy serve any purpose other than to speed you up? i.e. in terms of gameplay.

I did find quite a challenge still, as it was AGES before I went out and the bases had grown HUGE.

I like the idea (maybe in 0.13) of taming and researching rather than just killing. Also I hate having to 'redo' bits that have been destroyed, I see it as unnecessary to the gameplay as all it's doing is delaying you.

Anyway, just wanted to say how much I'm enjoying this game and how it has managed to ruin my ability to play anything else.

[zytukin]

I say use both.

You can turn on and off peaceful mode any time you want via the console.
/c game.peaceful_mode = true
/c game.forces["enemy"].kill_all_units()

[kiRu]

Both of course!

[myguyfromthe80s]

I say use both.

You can turn on and off peaceful mode any time you want via the console.
/c game.peaceful_mode = true
/c game.forces["enemy"].kill_all_units()

So I can turn it back on midway? (when I'm ready for them MUHAHA!)

[Koub]

You can also tweak the way aliens evolve. Alien evolution factor depends on :
1) The time that passes. Each second that passes, you piss them off a tiny little.
2) The pollution you produce. Every little bit of pollution pisses them off too.

And all this applies whatever the starting conditions you chose for biter nests (in the map creation).

factors (1 and 2) can be changed in the map-settings.lua file.

More information here : https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?tit ... ion_factor

[myguyfromthe80s]

I've been using this Mod as it seemed the only way to slow time down. Don't like being penalised for being slow.
But it would be nice to be able to uncheck "peaceful mode on" once I make it to mid game-ish I guess.

http://www.factoriomods.com/mods/static-game-difficulty
This mod disable time based evolution and pollution based evolution.

Pollution still governs the spawning of attack waves and evolution of biters difficulty now is based only on the number of biters based destroyed.

[Xterminator]

Personally I prefer fighting. Don't think I have ever played on Peaceful Mode cause I would just find too boring. I can see the benefit of just being able to build your factory on peace.

[BlakeMW]

I only like to use peaceful mode if doing some hardcore logistics challenge, otherwise I prefer deathworlds.

[Shroomworks]

I've used peacful mode in the beginning in order to learn the games mechanics and to have all the time in the world to do so. After learning them,i've started a new map with biters and attacks activated. In short,i find both modes to be fun.

[piloto19hh]

I mostly prefer fighting, but it's true that sometimes I get a bit tired of the biters, so it'd be good to slow down biters' bases from growing. They grow too fast maybe

[StarFox31]

Anyway, just wanted to say how much I'm enjoying this game and how it has managed to ruin my ability to play anything else.

Totally agree with you there.

I prefer the non peaceful mode, I am still on my first build but am about 20ish hours in.

[DigitalMind]

Both. I have two main saves: a ~150hr peaceful mode world for design and testing purposes, and a ~20hr infinite-biter-wall-struggle (remember, losing is fun). They are equally fun for me.