Here is my game as of now.
Yes it has not been 180 hours of constant work. Sometimes i just run around and cleanup trees, lay concrete etc.. Housekeeping. And sometimes i just idle. while doing other things.
Not all pictures are up to date. Some are a few days old. Some are weeks.
Map:

Coppersmelting.

This is 3 of the 5 total rows of my refinerywith now a total of 250 refineries. There is also 3x tilespace for modules. 5 waterpipes in between each row for adv refining+cracking.
It goes all down to petroleum. Even THOU i know light is better for solidfuel. By my napkin math it makes around 27 000 petroleum gas / minute when running full. Without modules/beacons as of yet.

Bigger overview of smelting + bit of bootstrap

Big refinery intake of oilbarrels. Ran by 2:4's on ro-ro station as rest of my base. 2 cargos for fulls. 2 for empties.

And thats what i have to show as of now.

And yes. The reason for building over resources. Is that i go further away from base to not having build new outposts as often.




 What you see right of the copper is the steel smelting.   North and northeast is for iron.
 What you see right of the copper is the steel smelting.   North and northeast is for iron.  