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Extremely important question for those who have evolved from spaghetti.

Dunno what the poll's about but vertical always wins.

But... But I love spaghetti

It depends on the map I'm on actually.

In my Current game my bus is horizontal (going left), but I've built a vertical one before.
Stuff like water, trees, location of start ores, ... all have influence over it.

First one was vertical, then a speedrun horizontal, then another vertical one, then I started a modular base (neither) and recently began a multiplayer game with a friend that is horizontal, but in the other direction (going left).

Now that trains have been fixed to work the same in either direction there is literally no difference (unless you count obtuse fluid logic). Much better to go with the appropriate direction based on the layout of the map.

My buses? Oh, they just end up something like this...

I don't build main bus style bases, but I do build a bussed building store these days, and that I've always built horizontally.

It honestly depends on the map. I play with a lot of water so that often restricts the shape and size of my starting area so I build to fit. When I have a choice though, I always go vertical. It just looks nicer I think.

If bus-style then vertical.

For me the reason is the 16:9 resolution I'm using.

If I branch off the bus horizontally I want to see as many contents of that branched department on the screen as possible.
Also when the bus is vertical I can actually see the load balancing of the all the parallel belts from the bus better.

In horizontal bus systems I would have to do a lot more North/South running to see everything on screen, which I just don't feel like doing.


That said I scrap the bus system anyways after a while because it's just too throughput limited towards the endgame. There I switch to a modular concept using seperate logistic networks for each department... interconnecting them with trains or other logistic networks.

I go both ways, it depends

MeduSalem wrote:If bus-style then vertical.

For me the reason is the 16:9 resolution I'm using.

If I branch off the bus horizontally I want to see as many contents of that branched department on the screen as possible.
Also when the bus is vertical I can actually see the load balancing of the all the parallel belts from the bus better.

In horizontal bus systems I would have to do a lot more North/South running to see everything on screen, which I just don't feel like doing.


That said I scrap the bus system anyways after a while because it's just too throughput limited towards the endgame. There I switch to a modular concept using seperate logistic networks for each department... interconnecting them with trains or other logistic networks.

All of this

I go diagonal.

ssilk wrote:I go diagonal.

But seriously ssilk, did you write it to troll the poll or do you really build your bus diagonal?

If so then I really would like to see some screenshots.