I’m a beginning megabaser myself. For how engrossing Factorio is, the vanilla gameplay to the end of the tech tree is just not enough ;) At some point, the ins

I’m a beginning megabaser myself. For how engrossing Factorio is, the vanilla gameplay to the end of the tech tree is just not enough ;) At some point, the inserter-to-belt interface becomes a serious bottleneck. CPU load does too. As for enemies, you can basically treat them as a solved or solvable problem after artillery even if you don’t turn them off.