Any way to just disable Biter Expansion Respawn thing?

[klixx]

Hey Guys,
me and my friend are enjoying this game really, but we are now getting fu-ked up by so many biter Spawns.. We cleared 1 hour all Alien bases around our factory but after one hour they are back in business.
Dont get me wrong, enemies are a good thing to keep the game interesting but is there any mod /command to disable the respawning thing? I want to keep the spawns when loading chunks!
After i searched the net a while i found the command "/c game.map_settings.enemy_expansion.enabled = false"
but there are shared opinions about if this commend is working or not - in our case it seems it has no affect at all?

would love to get some tips please, because like this we cant enjoy our fresh buyed game :-)

thanks in advance!

[Fel]

Did you put the / before the "c" in that command?
I know it might seem like a dumb thing to ask but it is a very easy thing to forget and it becomes just a chat message instead of a command without it.

[klixx]

Hey Fel, yeah i just corrected that in the OP, we did use it as a console command and it got executed. The command should do the job and you are sure its working in the current version?

[Fel]

I made a new map with expansion enabled and the cooldown at the lowest, cheated in a few radars and solar panels, used the command and made the game run at stupid speed (500 times as fast as normal speed since my CPU can handle that on a new map without slowing down) for 9 "hours" worth of ingame time and no base expanded, on the latest version.

[Killcreek2]

You can use this mod to change most map settings mid-game. Just disable or reduce "enemy expanion".
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ChangeMapSettings

[knighttemplar1960]

You can do it when you set up a new map by selecting "rail world." Biters don't create new bases and don't expand into cleared territory.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1914731434

[klixx]

Thank you all for your answers guys!
It finally worked with the Mod!