Friday Facts #409 - Diminishing beacons | Factorio
Friday Facts #409 - Diminishing beacons | Factorio
Hello, Today we're going to take a look at a feature some of us have dreamt of changing for years now - the beacon transmission. The main purpose of beacons is to allow massively increasing your production in the late game while being more than just a module or a faster machine. To make use of be...
What an amazing compromise they crafted here. I totally agree with them, the regular 12 beacon designs did indeed get very boring, so did the 8 beacon layouts
I never used beacons because they forced you to trade interesting gameplay for performance.
I only use them for oil outposts when they are running dry
My designs have never been good enough to optimize much. I just scale out instead.
They make for an interesting design challenge at first. Until you start reusing the same design over and over again
Letting people play ‘tall’ is great, but the current implementation stifles creativity.