Everything is better with portals. Research new technologies to get around faster, and even start establishing off-world mining bases.
Large total conversion mods.
No Factorium ore in the old and newgame map. Can it be crafted some way?
I loaded the mod onto a map that I'd basically finished the game on. This is the distance I had to go to find some http://imgur.com/q4IEEZO . Probably just a bit rarer than normal ores and not huge patches of it.
