Nothing like a good old spaghetti Bolognese

I personally prefer main bus, but with train pickup/dropoff spots for high usage items like plates, circuits, fluids, etc. The processing areas aren’t “city blocks” per se, but little stations for processing specific items, if that makes sense. Reason being, if I put copper plates on the bus and that feeds directly into circuit production, then space on my bus is being taken up to create intermediate products

In a non overhaul playthrough, I normally use a main bus until the first rocket, then transition to full LTN to scale up to 1k spm and beyond. In BA, I use mostly crawler bots then logistic bots since the thought of a main bus or a belt fed mall in BA terrifies me.

Main bus early on at least until I have bots and trains. Then I usually transition to a distributed train network of specialized sub factories (plus usually one bot mall). Think city block (sub factories) but I just put stuff wherever there is room and I don’t cram everything in an organized grid. I like working around lakes and having a more organically grown train network.

I start with a bus leaving enough headroom for multiple stations in the top part and a mall close by.

After trains, first I bring ores and then I start building minifactories for dedicated production drifting away from main bus.

When bots are available I start by converting the mall and then the main base is turn more or less into city blocks, but keeping the main bus.

Not as extreme as this but you can get the idea.

Fot the moment, it has worked everytime (including K2, let’s see how it goes with current run of B&A) and the main plus (IMHO) is that I don’t end up with a base that looks the same every run.