MEGAPLATS™ MegaPlatform System

MEGAPLATS™ A.K.A. the Mega Platform System (MPS) is a grid/"city block" style layout that can be applied across your entire island allowing for extremely convenient planning, expansion, and logistics for your factories. Each Mega-platform, shortened to megaplat, is designed to fit into one of the major grid lines/squares on the terrain grid (i.e. bold grid squares visible when zooming out with terrain grid overlay on). This makes it trivial to line up your factory to connect seamlessly between megaplats.

Design guide for making blueprints compatible with the MEGAPLATS™ system Despite the sarcastic " ™ " you are free and encouraged to make your own blueprints that fit into the footprint of a mega platform and integrate with the rail logistics and underground pipe network (https://hub.coigame.com/Blueprint/Detail/1257).

There are four "base plate sizes" from smallest to largest they are a quarter (MPSQ), half (MPSH), Inter (MPSI), and Full (MPSF):

1. MPSQ Buildable area: 11x14 mining tiles/44x56 tiles + 3x5mt/12x20t This platform is best used with a single product chain, eg iron or copper smelting. And should preferably rely only a couple of high throughput solid inputs or outputs as it can only have 3 exclusive 4 module train stations. However the MPSQ is the module that best integrates with a road Network and therefore can have truck accessible storages on the shortest full length side.
2. MPSH Buildable area: 11x31 mining tiles/44x124 tiles +2x3x5mt/2x12x20t This is your workhorse module large enough to contain a late-mid game scale production for a whole island. e.g. the MPSH Silicon and Glass Smelter produces a T3 belt of each. It is great for combining two or more synergistic production chains and can have up to 5 6 module stations + 2 4 module stations thanks to the rail tracks going through the center. It is ideal for production chains that have multiple high throughput solid inputs.
3. MPSI Buildable area: 21x41 mining tiles/84x164 tiles This is refers to the space between megaplats and their rails. It is meant to contain the general space intensive factory infrastructure e.g. solar panels, rain collectors, farms, power plants, evaporation ponds etc.
4. MPSF Buildable area: 31x31 mining tiles/124x124 tiles This is the size of a full major grid square and is large enough to fit nearly any complex end game and large scale production. It can support 4 6 + 4 8 module train stations or 12 6 module stations.

Principles to follow when making compatible blueprints

Important the area to use for your blueprints is for the filled MPS_2 not the MPS_1 which is used to add the first set of retaining walls.

• try to avoid removing retaining walls on MPS_2 unless you want to add vehicle accessible storages. Give dumping designation instructions and MPS_3 retaining walls to create the road connection.
• it's best to add UGP connections/fluid storages for MPSH on the long side of the megaplat. So that you can build a bridge between megaplats.
• always provide a version of your blueprint with all retaining walls removed
• for all solid inputs try to provide a belt that goes over the retaining walls (+1) and then off the platform to height 0 if you're designing on flat ground and +5 if designing on a filled megaplat. Therefore it's obvious to always have a tile of space between the retaining wall and the storage input/output
• optionally it's recommended to create a separate blueprint with all the train stations added (but without the megaplat blueprint and retaining walls)
• avoid adding additional production to create processed fluids that are already provided by UGP connections; this includes: Acid, Brine, HF, hydrogen, Fuel gas, Diesel, organic fertilizer, fertilizer 2
• similarly don't forget to add fluid outputs too e.g. if you're not processing exhaust or low pressure steam on the megaplat add a pipe balancer with priority out to a UGP connection and overflow to a smoke stack.