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Hello again,

Been awhile since I've had time to game and in that time I started a new map to play around with a few things. At any rate, the newest map that I've found very much appears to be on the shore of an ocean, or at the least a massive lake. I have a car but have not been able to drive around it. I've found some curves, but in general i's quite massive and I was trying to build my entire base on a floating island kind of deal.

Any thoughts? I'm sure some of you have done this before, lol. I'm just mining a bunch of stone at the moment and beelining to nuclear before doing anything else.

High water level is my preferred way to play. It makes for a nice separation between me and the biters with narrow walkways to defend biter intrusion. However, it also tends to place water where there would normally be an ore patch, making me have to venture out farther than normal to get more resources.

Use your car to explorer your shoreline and see where the biter entrances might be. Defend your factory in those directions. You also need to do this to find out where resources are located to plan for the future.

Be careful where you put landfill that you don't accidentally make a land bridge for the biters to bypass your defenses.