at what point does a base become a MEGABASE?

[Colonel Sanders]

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/267218287326000951/36E7E38FBCA3CDE61AE288950819C75C9240442B/

title says it all, because im starting to wonder what to do to make it bigger, having all what i need in great quantity

[Mazian]

İlk olarak ~* BiZZ Keryear *~ tarafından gönderildi:

a base is a mega base when your frame rate falls below 5fps

By this logic, loading your game into an older computer that does not meet minimum specs causes your base to become a megabase. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

[zingo2]

I would also add 1 criteria. 100GJ. When your accumulator capacity reaches the magical 100- you must have lots of stuff to do it and by this time your base has to have lots of things.

For me 100GJ is a milestone- like Yes i made it!

[bobSheep]

My biggest factory was 5ghw, some 25k iron/copper plates a second and some 13-15k of the others. with a smart bunker to store up to 12 million plates and supply them when base was needing it using some combinators.

I would call it a megabase if it takes you 10 minutes to cross it... by train.
I think big or mega depends on your perception of big.

[Colonel Sanders]

i think at this point i should just share my map and show u guys the sheer size of it all, im just halway finished on the heart of the factory, all the machinery is done, but i redid all the smelters (about 2k+ of them) and i need to filter em to my 200 millions buffers chests, butt well now im out of iron so it will be mayber later this week

[Mazian]

İlk olarak bobSheep tarafından gönderildi:

I would call it a megabase if it takes you 10 minutes to cross it... by train.

You sir have a giganta-mega-super-base.

[bobSheep]

İlk olarak Mazian tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak bobSheep tarafından gönderildi:

I would call it a megabase if it takes you 10 minutes to cross it... by train.

You sir have a giganta-mega-super-base.

ever watched the mega base twitch stream made by some devs? they have thousands of combinators.. I went wow.

[Mazian]

@ bobSheep
No, only recently started playing myself. (last two months.)

[~* BiZZ Keryear *~]

İlk olarak Mazian tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak ~* BiZZ Keryear *~ tarafından gönderildi:

a base is a mega base when your frame rate falls below 5fps

By this logic, loading your game into an older computer that does not meet minimum specs causes your base to become a megabase. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Exactly! Cause that is the biggest base you can build. A mega base is the biggest you can build in my definition.

[Ruges]

How do you feed the raw mats into a base like this? I find going over 4 blue lines of mats is a a bit hard. As it seems like everytime you get it going full tilt. you start to run out of raw mats and you have to go out and start a new drill area.

[~* BiZZ Keryear *~]

İlk olarak Ruges tarafından gönderildi:

How do you feed the raw mats into a base like this? I find going over 4 blue lines of mats is a a bit hard. As it seems like everytime you get it going full tilt. you start to run out of raw mats and you have to go out and start a new drill area.

Trains? And if four doesn't do it use 8.

[Madolite]

Well, by comparison, the definition of a "Megadungeon" is a "dungeon that consists of dungeons". I.e. it consists of multiple floors and/or wings that each are a dungeon in their own right.

Watcher's Keep (Baldur's Gate 2), Caed Nua (Pillars of Eternity) and Blackreach (TESV: Skyrim), are examples of megadungeons. In Wow, there's several megadungeons (in the form of multi-instance raid locations like the Frozen Throne and such). However, the largest megadungeons typically exist as standalone games - Dungeon Hack, Legend of Grimrock and Eye of the Beholder, to mention a few. Megadungeons usually require tens of hours of real-time exploration, if not days at most.

A Megabase would be similar, a massive complex of multiple bases. A base the size of a city district or even a small city, with multiple factory sectors, outposts and such.

[~* BiZZ Keryear *~]

İlk olarak Madolite tarafından gönderildi:

Well, by comparison, the definition of a "Megadungeon" is a "dungeon that consists of dungeons". [...]

You sure that you didn't mean Metadungeon?

[Madolite]

İlk olarak ~* BiZZ Keryear *~ tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Madolite tarafından gönderildi:

Well, by comparison, the definition of a "Megadungeon" is a "dungeon that consists of dungeons". [...]

You sure that you didn't mean Metadungeon?

You can call it that too, if you want. The terms are usually interchanged, although meta refers to a higher order of magnitude, whereas mega refers to the magitude itself. Most megadungeons are metadungeons, for practical and architectural reasons. But rarely, a metadungeon could technically be small enough to not classify as a megadungeon. But that would most likely feel unnaturally small (kinda like Megaton in Fallout 3 being clasified as a town, when it's really just a small neighbourhood) ;)

[Mazian]

İlk olarak Madolite tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak ~* BiZZ Keryear *~ tarafından gönderildi:

You sure that you didn't mean Metadungeon?

You can call it that too, if you want. The terms are usually interchangable, although meta refers to a higher order of magnitude, whereas mega refers to the magitude itself.

Fact check failure... woop woop alarms blaring...

https://www.google.com/search?q=meta+definition&ie=&oe=

Meta, as an adjective, means self-referential. As a combining form, it has several meanings, none of which of size. More in the sense of "beyond", "behind" or "after."

https://www.google.com/search?q=mega&ie=&oe=#q=mega+definition

Mega as an adjective, means very large, huge. As a combining form, it has several meanings, but all are size related. All of them very large.

I believe that Mega- and Meta- (hyphenated prefix) are adjective combining form usage of the word.

[~* BiZZ Keryear *~]

İlk olarak Madolite tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak ~* BiZZ Keryear *~ tarafından gönderildi:

You sure that you didn't mean Metadungeon?

You can call it that too, if you want. The terms are usually interchangable, although meta refers to a higher order of magnitude, whereas mega refers to the magitude itself. Most megadungeons are metadungeons, for practical and architectural reasons. But rarely, a metadungeon could technically be small enough to not classify as a megadungeon. But that would most likely feel unnaturally small (kinda like Megaton in Fallout 3 being clasified as a town, when it's really just a small neighbourhood) ;)

Not really. Meta something means something that consists of something that is itself ....(or bad wording here) e.g. A meta search engine is a search engine that searches several search engines (was a thing before google). But that actually had no data base of its own. Just sendet the query to the engines and removed the duplicates / marked hits as found by several engines (back than not all sites where listed everywhere ... cause these where catalogs build by hand). So remove all (other) search engines ... and you don't have anything left, but as long as there are still two left it is technically a meta engine (if it is only one it is just a redirect)

A meta dungeon is a dungeon that consists out of several dungeons that are complete in themselves. Same rules here. As long as there are two dungeons left it still is a meta dungeon. Even if the dungeons are tiny.

A meta base is one that consist out of several smaller bases... so matter how tiny the whole thing is (even though it naturally tends to be big).
But a mega base is a gigantic one. It doesn't have to consist out of smaller parts and it has to be big.... huge ... bigger than huge.


and what Mazian said (man I could have saved a lot of trouble and typing if I had read all posts first)