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Lokarin posted...

once I started infinitely expanding my circuit machines sideways I ran into throughput issues I couldn't fix easily

You're always going to run into some throughput issues if you try to expand linearly. Even without modules/beacons, one AM3 producing green circuits will consume 3.75 copper per second (through wires). That means one blue belt of copper (45/s) can only ever supply 12 circuit assemblers, no matter how much spare material you've got on your bus. Usually, my green circuit factories are built with two lines of copper and one iron (the copper each feeding a row of wire assemblers, direct inserting into rows of circuit assemblers that share the iron belt), but for AM3's that's still 2.5 iron a second and the most you can get out of a row like that is 18. Really ramping up production entails having multiple rows working in parallel, since otherwise you're just held back by the throughput of the belts.

Lokarin posted...

Next base gunna do 4 lane right from the start

My usual bus design is 8 lanes each of iron and copper, 4 of green circuits, 2 steel, 2 plastic, 1 red circuit, and 1 blue circuit, sometimes doing stone, stone bricks, and/or coal depending on how I'm feeling (outside of malls, those three are used in pretty limited quantities). I rarely actually use that much before transitioning into a modular train-based design to really scale up (and I don't actually build out all the lanes unless I need them), but it does a solid job of future-proofing my base and means I don't have to upgrade the whole thing to red or blue belts before I move to trains.