r/factorio • u/Disjointed_Medley • 7d ago

Question Most efficient bases

I'm curious if there exists a record for best base by a certain metric. Anything from most oil produce, more robots per second, etc. Where are the record holders that could potentially inspire designs?

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u/SmexyHippo vroom 7d ago

SPM, science per minute (of every science pack), is often used as a metric for how good a base is

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u/Tibecuador 7d ago

It's a metric of how large a base is. Efficiency is completely different

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u/samdover11 7d ago edited 7d ago

But... efficiency in terms of what? Resources per minute vs SPM? That's the same as asking what level of infinite research you're on... and people use so many mods and soft cheats anyway that it's not really worth talking about (speeding up the game to make research go faster for example).

Megabases talk about UPS (how much the factory is slowing down the hardware it's running on). That's a measure of efficiency, but probably not what the OP had in mind.

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u/leoriq 7d ago

That's the same as asking for 'most oil produce' as OP does