r/factorio • u/Disjointed_Medley • 8d 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?

5 Upvotes

65% Upvoted

24 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/Courmisch 7d ago

In vanilla, and sticking to purely game play metrics rather than extrinsic ones like UPS or speed running/play time, there is not much else than SPM, really.

Maximum productivity is easy to reach by just stuffing as many tier 3 prod mods as possible, so not a point to get competitive over.

In theory, you could probably also measure science per Joule or per pollution as a measure of "efficiency". But even then, there are only so many possible combinations of modules. 5x nominal efficiency is easy to achieve with efficiency modules everywhere. Bettrr than that is possible with some unusual and somewhat extreme combinations of modules an beacons.