PvP customized settings

[Olive3garden]

Sorry if this does not belong here, but I could not find a section regarding pvp scenarios. I have a question regarding the pvp in factorio: does anyone know if it is possible to have one team set to have different research speed than the other team? For example, set team 1 to have the default 1 research speed and set team 2 have double or half the research speed so that one side has an advantage? I'm playing with someone who is a lot newer than me and we're trying to figure out a way to balance things out from the beginning instead of just giving someone a head start. If this isn't available in the base game, any recommended mods that have similar settings/customizable settings to the above? Thanks for all the help

[eradicator]

Looking at the API doc says that technology_price_multiplier and technology_difficulty are both game-wide settings, so there's no easy way to have two forces ("teams") with different tech trees. A mod would have to copy all technologies, make the copies more expensive, and then disable all the cheaper technologies for one force.

Mining productivy or lab speed are per force, but you can only give bonusses, not penalties. And neither of them affects the size of the whole factory like double bottle cost would. So... no easy solution there either.

[Olive3garden]

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunate they aren't options, but I understand why. I guess we'll just have to do what we've been doing, giving him a head start in the beginning, thanks again