Is a big train with 5 resources better than 5 trains with 1 resource? this mostly regards the time that the big train has to gather resources from each section

do others have good designs/templates for a mall?
In pretty much all of my saves i would have a tiny mall and then spread out with a botmall. My lazy bastard mall is really bad and i dont know how to fix it

yeah, this is the first map i entered "randomly" without checking so theres no trees around, i was used to having biters attack much later, often when defenses are already built, so i was confused by the attacks on random machines

setting up another mining outpost, biters are selecting the miners without any pollution production from the miners. why?