Or they could just make the Alien Science Pack recipe not yield 10 of them for 1 Alien Artifact and instead give 1 for 1, now farming up those Alien Artifacts takes a lot more effort (and means that the bugs will be much more pissed off and dangerous by endgame).

-Yield decreases by 1% every 75 cycles If I understood the rest of your post correctly, I think what you mean is that the yield decreases by 1 percentage point every 75 cycles, not 1 percent. Is that correct? Thanks for figuring out the math. I noticed that higher yields seemed to give significantl...

Assumptions: For simplicity, we will assume that the decrease happens only once every 75 cycles, and not each cycle by a 1/75th a percent (this would change the numbers only slightly, but significantly complicate the math; and I am not sure how the game actually handles that internally). Yield decr...

Now that is an interesting piece. Thank you for the insight. I especially liked how you were able to note that it scales quadratically. Yea I got intrigued and noticed that there didn't seem to be anything on this concept around. Also, considering I have a Bachelor's of Science in Mathematics, I ha...

So I got curious about the math behind how pumpjacks and oil field yield work. Decided to math it out, based on the information on the wiki. Information: -Oil Fields have a yield value given as a percentage (e.g. 162% yield). -Pumpjacks supply oil equal to that percentage in decimal form once each c...

It depends on whether or not I've done proper preparation, and maintain it or not. If I do both of those, np, but if I fail to do one of those, things get kinda nasty fast (fighting an attack on foot without turrets handy is dangerous unless you've got good military stuff for the current evolution l...

So I had this monster Iron Ore field spawn to the SE of my start area w/ on my very first game. I'm finally (~30 hours in) starting to mine this thing. This thing spawned with all normal settings for resources....