Every vanilla playthrough of mine follows a rough progression: get to blue science with spaghetti, organize a bit, and then get bots all with my initial ore deposits (maybe a few trains to the closest other ones if needed). After that, I build a larger, more organized base with a comprehensive train network from scratch in another location and then work to finish the game.
I assumed this was the norm—or close to it—but I’ve seen people just progressively expand their initial base at spawn until they beat the game. I feel like I could do it differently just because I have less experience and hence less foresight into what I’ll need as I go, but I’m not sure.
What do you guys do? How come?
In every run I’ve ever done my initial base at some point is just gone, slowly replaced over time.
Same. Initial base slowly grows and morphs into a more organized mess later in the game
That is what my base has done as well. There always seems to be a big rework as soon as I get cliff explosives and big miners, but everything usually stays in a similar location.