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[LoSboccacc]

Played over internet using something like hamachi but different and while we were at early start I found it quite stable

[tryrar]

Heh, whoever it was that gave me the tip using laser turrets to take out enemy spawns, thank you! It takes a minute to set up correctly without getting yourself killed or the turrest blown up(especially in forested areas when you might need to do a little tree clearing at the same time you're getting rushed) but I've taken out two bases so far, and am working on a thrd. That is also, two more than I've EVER taken out

Edit:Ok, screw turrets, the tank is the way to go, it is hilariously awesome

[n9103]

treads OP nerfplzktnxbai

[King Kravoka]

This game looks like it mutated from something that crawled out of my memories of playing the Creeper World games.


That's a good thing.

[tryrar]

I just took out a five-spawner 3 large worm base in the tank, with the swarms being medium spitters. Ok, this is ridiculously OP.

[LoSboccacc]

It was about time we got something for retributing on them!


You know that in my largish map I have to bring 50 capsule at least to have a chance clearing spawns?

That costs a lot of copper and metal each.

[tryrar]

Tank shells are pretty cheap, they only cost a bit of steel, plastic, and explosives, and they two-shot any spawner and worm, plus they blow through most creeps without slowing down so you can hit a creep and damage what's behind him. PLUS, the tank can take incredible amounts of abuse, such as being used for tree clearing(I can drive straight through an entire forest on my way to my destination with hardly a scratch. Tank don't care!) Oh, and the smaller creeps you can just run the fuck over and kill them, and keep going. Seriously, tank is awesome

[LordSlowpoke]

trying to get on a multi server left me with a process that doesn't even crash cleanly and takes up 900 megs with a phantom thread

an alpha indeed vOv

[LoSboccacc]

I have updated my mod that makes resource inexhaustible (you mine them until they reach below 100% yeld and they get down to 50% yeld, meaning you pollute twice as much for mining those depleted resources when compared to non exhausted resources)

http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3130

I also create a mod that make bite difficulty only based on how much of their based you killed, removing time scaling from the equation:

http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=6433

[The Scout]

I have updated my mod that makes resource inexhaustible (you mine them until they reach below 100% yeld and they get down to 50% yeld, meaning you pollute twice as much for mining those depleted resources when compared to non exhausted resources)

http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3130

I also create a mod that make bite difficulty only based on how much of their based you killed, removing time scaling from the equation:

http://www.factorioforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=6433

You are my hero, this makes the game much simpler.

[LoSboccacc]

to be fair, those were to avoid a stalemate by being surrounded by biters and unable to expand onto metal fields in early games, but now the tank changes the balance quite a bit

[Fikes]

What tank are you guys referring to? What did I miss?

Edit: Ahh, the experimental version.

[Sting_Auer]

I just bought this game a few days ago, and I have just been playing it to death with no signs of slowing down. I've died a few times due to trying some risky experiments involving shotguns and kiting enemies, and I've decided to go the route of starting over whenever I die.

I've set up a world where everything is minimum frequency, but maximum size and richness. I have a fairly large "safe" area within which I can build, and I was lucky enough to spawn with coal, copper, iron, and oil within a manageable (but still long) distance of each other.

I'm completely boxed in by super-hives of enemies with dozens of spawners, but they're a good distance away. I just had my first attack earlier today, and I hadn't finished loading up my turrets with ammunition, so they did some damage to the iron mining facility and the conveyor track that brings the ore to the main processing area. My current goal is to ramp up armor-piercing ammunition production, along with improving electricity output so I can upgrade to lasers at some point, since constantly reloading turrets is going to be a pain.

I already have a semi-automated wall production site, which I will be using to fortify with at least a 2 layer thick wall. I may go thicker, in which case I will put the turrets inside the walls so as to allow them to fire at attackers.

Anybody got tips? I have an automated research facility of 7 or so labs with plenty of Red and Green science production to fuel them for the time being. I have an easily edited and expanded factory layout, my only weak point at the moment is defense.

[LoSboccacc]

you can use conveyor belt and inserters to automate gun reload, but I'd suggest to rush to laser anyway and keep pollution to a minimum to keep waves manageable (well iron is not a problem when you play max freq but in normal games turrets use a great deal of ammo)


also you can use walls to drive biters around to an extent (they will chew the wall if rerouted distance is too much) so you can have opening in walls at early stages with defensive groups behind, this keeps the turret hardpoints and belting necessities down to a minimum.

walls take a lot of time to do so a suggestion is to leave the initial burner drill you have to do over a stone field and with a stone burner churning out stone blocks as soon as you upgrade to electricity. just stock them coal to max and after the first attack you can wall up decently.

 

[jhxmt]

So after playing the demo, I finally gave in and bought this.

...good god.  Where did the day go? 

I need to get used to the idea that, in the long run, turtling is a bad thing.  Oh, sure, you can make a highly-defended, highly-automated stronghold...but, eventually, you're going to mine your resource beds down to nothing and need to expand.

Of course, I'm saying this having not explored more than the very early stages of technology, so I've got no truly sustainable power source at this point - nor lasers, so I'm entirely dependent on coal and iron at the base level.  I've had so much fun trying to build workable conveyor and inserter systems that I forgot all about keeping an eye on my turrets' ammo levels or on my remaining iron stocks.  Oops!