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Remember you can remote drive trains and tanks :)
With radar coverage yes, but my power is down so the radars are too!
Next time I'll put my tank in a special spot together with a radar, solar panels, accumulators and enough supplies to "build" my way back to the rest of the base.
Oh, right. I think you can still drive half blind with no radar, but if power managed to go out completely I guess it doesn't matter if you can manually drive the train to the station. :)
Yeah... Also, it won't unload because the inserters need power. Or was a good lesson in failsafe design at least!
What precautions did you take before leaving?
I was very anxious about that scenario, haha.
I made sure the base ran entirely off a huge supply of nuclear power, that currently mined resouece patches still had a lot of fat on them, and cleaned biter based so that the perimeter wall wasn't handling very heavy waves before leaving.
I was the opposite! Eager to check the new content, and confident I could make fixes using the remote driving feature.
But it's fun in a new way; I'm the type of RPG player that finishes the game with all expensive potions still untouched in the inventory, everything meticulously minmaxed. I realized it makes me a very nervous player that doesn't like risks, so this time I went with a role-playing approach, and it really pays off! When I'm not playing, I'm thinking of my poor engineer stranded on an alien planet, and how I'm going to bring him home again, possibly to a ravaged base...
Single solar panel with a radar not connected to the main power grid. Emergency visibility