hmm.... I'm starting to resent this game of factorio that I've got going - I'm spending more time dealing with biters and power going out and basic ore throughput issues than I am actually building stuff.

I think I'm going to start again, but maybe with a different world preset?

idk, I like having biters because it gives you a consequence for polution.

But when my defenses are dealing with a different biter attack every 10 seconds, and one in 10 biter attacks damage something, that's a lot of time travelling to the other side of the base to see what broke

ok, for my next game, I'm using the railworld preset (big ore patches far apart, biters don't expand), but modified so that:
• biter evolution is much slower
• each ore patch is richer than normal