. I am looking forward to see if we can keep up the pace and not get overrun too early 
. Hey at least this version has tanks right! Right? >.>To explain a little, Oni had some audio issues and his footage from the first 9 is unusable. After this, we'll each be posting every single episode to our own channels.Oninaig wrote:A quick note: The first 9 episodes will be from Root's POV only. After that we will both post our own POV as normal.
The second bit I agree with. The first, I'm not sure??? Can anyone say definitively what raises the evolution factory?Marbles wrote:I don't believe killing biters raises evolution levels. It does make place for new biters to spawn though, so if you kill a biter base filled with small biters and the evolution factor is high, medium or big biters might take their place.
TL:DR? We're going to be in the doo-doo very shortly.DaveMcW wrote:Base evolution rate is 10 hours to medium biters, 10 hours more to large biters.
Killing a spawner is +10 minutes of evolution.
Feeding pollution to a spawner gives bonus evolution. You need 44 spawners in your pollution cloud to double the evolution rate. Polluted spawners also make biters that you have to kill, so indirectly killing biters correlates to increased evolution.
See, this I didn't know. You are right, theoretically we're missing approximately 3 items per second for complete compression. Thanks for looking it up and working it out.Marbles wrote:In the latest vid (3) you say that 16 steel furnaces will fill a yellow transport belt.
16 steel furnaces have a capacity of 32 items/second, divided by the production time of an iron plate is 32/3.5=9.14 items/second.
According to this page a yellow transport belt has a throughput of about 12 items/second.
Maybe it doesn't quite work out practically, but theoretically you should be able to increase the furnace count to 21, but that is only if you actually use all the iron on the belt faster than it can provide.
This would work too.Blackence wrote:When I *really* want to fill a yellow belt, I just use red belts at the furnaces where inserters have difficulties finding a free spot on the iron plate belt. This will enlarge gaps between iron plates and inserters can drop their items. Then switch to yellow belt again where no more inserters try to drop stuff, and it should be 100% packed if the furnace output is sufficient.
You know, Root would say that Dytech has spoiled me since the first thought that came to my mind when I saw that image was "Sure, if I use close inserters for blue/purple and regular for green/red".... >.>Marbles wrote:In the latest vid (3) you say that 16 steel furnaces will fill a yellow transport belt.
16 steel furnaces have a capacity of 32 items/second, divided by the production time of an iron plate is 32/3.5=9.14 items/second.
According to this page a yellow transport belt has a throughput of about 12 items/second.
Maybe it doesn't quite work out practically, but theoretically you should be able to increase the furnace count to 21, but that is only if you actually use all the iron on the belt faster than it can provide.
You did get the science pack ratio right though
I do quite like the dynamic between you and Oni, it's hilarious hearing him trying to make the right decisions
Oh and Oni, you can do the science lab thing with 2 belts if you pack red and green on one belt and blue and purple on the other, utilizing both sides of the belt like this:
