I'm avoiding robots for the most part in this playthrough, just using them to stock me up when I hit the mall. It allows me to jump on the train to run out to wherever I want, but keeps any of my automated trains from going through the middle of my base and running me over. One of my favorite design features (invented by me!) is the split "Home" rail line going right through the middle of the base. Finished products are then fed north to the bus. Iron and copper are smelted on the bottom, then fed into circuits between them, as that takes up the most resources. I like having all of my stuff in one place, makes it easier to run around and deal with whatever is currently the bottleneck. The base is a centralized main bus architecture. Currently the base is only about 300 science per minute, but it is expanding reasonably quickly. The goals for this base are primarily to try out the new Spidertron that got added in the 1.0 release of Factorio and to achieve 2,000 science per minute. You can see my much smaller starter base off to the right - it only produced up to yellow science if I remember, and that was only produced at a very very slow rate. This game is amazing this way, giving you a chance to play with what you enjoy playing with (and simplifying the stuff you don't much care about). I suppose if I enjoyed laying down railroad and optimizing my intersections, I'd spend more time straightening things out and the like. For instance, I've got weird signaling on my not-so-straight railroad tracks, but since there's no issues I just let it be. I think I end up with too much of "well this just works, now let's move on." in my base. But if you're having fun troubleshooting it, then keep on keepin' on. I was under the impression that the removal of a spent cell would dictate "turning on" the circuit that would then wait to see if the steam got low enough to warrant a new cell being put it, to avoid accidentally loading up 5 cells into the reactor when steam didn't immediately jump back up to the right level to throw the switch back the other way.
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