I've witnessed about six completely unspoiled new player experiences, four friends in person and two over the internet who intentionally avoided spoilers (Quill18 and Brothgar) All six experiences hit a huge speedbump at blue science. Understanding blue science was not the wall, it was the combined ...

Looks like it's acting up again.

Attempt to remote call outside of an event.

__creative-mode__/control.lua:73: in main chunk

I just updated to 15.27

Cool stuff. Does this run without backing up? Looks nice and isolated.

My guess is that since we haven't seen the final art(and wattage) for nuclear, or a 0.15 circuit network FF, or a final 0.15 HD art FF, the final 0.15 Research rework FF, final weapon rebalance FF, we have at least 5-8 weeks. It is a huge content update. It will be most likely the major content addi...

Cool stuff. I love the use of the gear buffer as a way to work around the widely varying demand of belt/inserter products. Do you limit the gear chest or do you just fill it up?

I still use this design Xolkiyr, so its much appreciated. I'll check it out soon.

This is great OP. Awesome work.

Yea!

Big, slow biters that perhaps unleash a lot of regular biters upon death sounds pretty sweet. Might be a good way to get some walls destroyed

Excellent topic with many ideas. I feel very strongly about this revamp and I hope I can toss my 2 cents into the pile. I have played 300 hours since 0.12. Current Combat Observations: + Weapon variety is great + First few expansions and map exploration is fun + Progression and introduction of new c...

I use two-headed trains with a one-way rail system. It simplifies stations for me and throughput can be expanded gracefully with bigger stations.

Loops are good too. The speed difference is noticeable but it hasn't really affected me.

3/3/6 is a rough abbrev for 3 red science, 3 green, and 6 blue science assemblers. It's based off the shorthand 5/6/12 that people often talk about.

Blue belt is express belt, the highest tier one.

I actually used your map seed for my spoon achievement yesterday btw

The fact that this runs on a single yellow belt is impressive. You got it planned out very well and I'll probably be using this when I go for my Spoon run. I plan my 'regular' bases out on a 3/3/6 as well as trying to bus only one blue of iron/copper, so this build really speaks to me. I appreciate ...

As I've gotten better and better at the game I have started craving construction bots as early as possible as well so I can be my own lazy bastard. My flying robot frame factory is incorporated into my early rush to advanced oil processing and I really do think the tech is well placed. Right after w...

The ability to set recipes in assemblers using circuit network in proposed 0.14 update will "complete" this concept and make it very viable over traditional solutions, such as looong belts with various knicknacks. Right now it's nothing more than a project for the sake of a project (which ...

I use this build from BlakeMW. It doesn't output exactly a blue belt, but you can toss in another partially beaconed EC factory on the end to cap it out for express. I think his build aims for compactness, so it doesn't have as much inserter coverage as yours, so it uses bots to move copper cable sh...

Choo choooooo There's two inevitable reasons to make trains. Either your starting patch runs out or you need more miners mining stuff. Feeding just 10 labs nonstop takes up over half a yellow belts worth of iron and copper plates. If you intend to use that other half for anything else you're going t...

I decided to shelve my Lazy Bastard save until the map gen was fixed (and it just was), so this is all still valuable information. When I did start I got to about oil before I quit that save. I think using some of my free crafts will go to more burner drills after automation I. Because burner drills...

Without bullet shooting speed upgrade: 3000 ticks Bullet shooting speed 1: 2500 ticks Bullet shooting speed 2: 2142 ticks Bullet shooting speed 3: 1764 ticks Bullet shooting speed 4: 1500 ticks Bullet shooting speed 5: 1305 ticks Bullet shooting speed 6: 1154 ticks It's precisely as XKnight foretol...

Sounds like this problem is self inflicted. There is literally no problem with looped train networks if you signal them properly. I think you got all the help links in the thread to fix it, good luck.

most trains run double-headed in real life.

cube wrote:I've made some tweaks to our map generator, a bug or two related to map segmentation and completely replaced how starting areas are generated. Let's see if it will make you happy Moving to fixed for next version.