Any possible for infinite evolving biters?

[jessefjxm]

I fell myself invincible on my late bob+angel save So i'm just wondering if we can add one option in bob's enemy that allows biters grow ultimately powerful, like raising HP, attack & defense through time, or get random update/bonus after X biters are killed.

There's a mod Enhanced_Biters https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Enhanced_Biters that tries to infinitely enhance biter powers like this:

game.forces.enemy.set_ammo_damage_modifier("melee", 0.5 + (2 * scale + game.tick) / (2 * scale) )

[jessefjxm]

I've searched around Factorio API but seems like there's no way to modify the attribute of entity in game. A trival solution might be... generate as much tier of bugs as user want through config?

[bobingabout]

there's nothing in the base game to support it, I've heard of people trying to come up with ways to go it before, but it turns into a spaghetti nightmare.

[jessefjxm]

Ohhh, that's really a bad news

[Ranakastrasz]

I suppose you might be able to give them upgrade effects similar to Gun damage upgrade, or laser turret damage/attack speed upgrades.
I don't know of any way to give them more health/resistance however.

Maybe apply a global damage dealt reduction to players? Wouldn't effect collision damage, but aside from that, maybe. So when enemies get stronger, your weapons do slightly less damage. -10% damage dealt is similar, but not the same as 10% more enemy health.

You just have to be clever :p

Still, no direct method that I know of yet.

[crysanja]

Maybe its possible to gate some technologies with debuff techs for weapon damage.
This would make biters stronger at specific times.