I've been writing a survival scenario myself and having played this, I wanted to make some remarks:
- You really need to validate spawn locations (surface.find_non_colliding_position()) as I found enemies spawning on water and bypassing walls.
I think for some enemy's it by design. But i also find it a bit annoying to have them run over my wall, kill the inserter and starve the turret from ammunition.
- Enemy spawn rate should be tied to pollution to better fit the pacing of Factorio rather than being time-based.
I disagree, one of the best things in this mod is the wave based approach. I would love this mechanic in vanilla Factorio.
- Spawners are way too strong. Walling the player in with nearly impossible to kill spawners/queens restricts the player far too much in early game.
The queen is not the big problem, when you build yourself a sniper rifle it is not that hard to kill the queen. The first problem i see is the damage to to player, even with armor the enemy hits like a truck. I cleared out the whole base of the enemy no thread is there expect for a queen every X minutes. But the main building is to strong (got the tip with killing every other building so stop it from regenerating)
- What's the win condition? I assume it's feeding enough resources into the crashed ship, but how much is enough?
I don't think there is one yet? When the ship is repaired you can produce a new ship. Build this and repair it -> nothing happens.
But if i'm wrong i would like to know what the win condition is.
