What world generation settings do you use?

Do you enjoy the game that way? Then play that way! Don't let anyone tell you you're playing the game wrong.

Rather than turning off bugs I max out the starting area size. Gives me lots of time to get going

Yep, once you have researched tanks and power armour turrets the biters are not so bad to deal with, and flamethrower. It can be fun too.
- LASERWALLS
  Seriously, once nuclear becomes available, I basically stop making gun turrets. it's just a solid laser wall I keep pushing out. Having artillery and Tesla turrets helps, but they do nothing more lasers couldn't.
  Well. Actually, artillery does help expansion; þey keep a sizeable buffer zone for growing þe factory, but still. Nuclear & laser turrets FTW.
  I haven't found bugs to be any sort of issue on Gleba. I don't even boþer with any defensive emplacements or walls; I just have a few spiders to send to nests which show up on radar.
  Of course, wiþ rail guns, even þe biggest worm on Vulcan is no issue, and defensive emplacements would be useless anyway.
  Turning off bugs seems as if it would make þe game much more boring. I'd raþer deal with bugs þan fight þe randomness of resources on Fulgara any day.

Railworld, richness to the max, and less water coverage. Sometimes I turn on peaceful mode, depending on what I'm after.

I bump up size, frequency, and richness to 150% and disable cliffs. Sometimes i turn down the bugs aggressiveness though.

Enjoy your simulation however you find the best. If you want no bugs don't feel bad about it, just enjoy it.

I always bump the frequency and richness of ores usually around 25-50%. Making it too high, i feel removes the push to expand. Too low and i can't get resources without it being a slog everytime. I also find it enjoyable to turn up the minimum time between attacks by just a few minutes. It gives me time to try to make something nicer than it would be otherwise.

But that's just how I like to play. One thing I love about Factorio is they put those options in there because no matter what your preferences are, that's how the game is supposed to be played.

That said, it can also be fun to do a vanilla run or even just skip changing a single setting you'd usually alter. It's amazing how much a single setting can change the way you approach a play through.

I play on basic default settings now, with a random seed.

Played w bugs off and high richness when I started.

I'm on Switch, so cant play with the other planets, but all the updates w 2.0 make things like sushi belts and minimum waste setups possible.

I hated the combat at first, but the more I play the more I enjoy it.

I enjoy setting up train, and don't enjoy getting bitten. I usually use a railworld preset with peaceful biters.

I often don't increase the richness, because them I wouldn't be able to set up more train stations. I regret to inform you that my factory frequently doesn't grow.

I play with no pollution or time evolution instead of no bugs. That way I still have to research military stuff, but I'm not rushed to do it.

I start with default settings, but with rail world ores. Then I bump up the water coverage a bit and tweak the scale to get huge islands. I love setting the goal of clearing my entire starter continent of biters, pushing my walls forward bit by bit until I don't need them anymore.

Then I eventually run out of one resource or another, and need to bridge to a new continent, and start the process all over again ^^

Technically, this world generation is "easier" since you could just clear a continent then not have to worry about pollution anymore, but I try to minimize pollution anyway to save my forests and lakes. I actually haven't triggered a single biter attack from pollution in my current 300+ hour playthrough...

This one sounds fun

I either do default or rail world presets but I mess around with the moisture setting so I get a green planet. Fuck desert starts, I hate them so much.

Tends to change by playthrough but 50% water scale/150% water coverage/~200% resource frequency+size+richness is my go-to. Creates lots of natural chokepoints, available resources end up feeling like they're similar to default map settings, gives you enough area to build a reasonable bus starter base at the start but eventually pushes towards a more train spaghetti playstyle.

I've only started a new game twice: once when I bought the base game and once for space age, so I've only used default settings. Reading about the other options here has been enlightening

Rather than turning off bugs entirely, I like to adjust settings that indirectly make them less aggressive. I usually spike the moisture setting so that I spawn in a forest rather than a desert. Dense trees consume pollution in the early game and gives me more time before my cloud reaches the nests. I also like to play with the water coverage settings to create large lakes and rivers, making more choke points and reducing the need for long, fortified walls.

Rail world is a good setting for a rather peaceful run. You want some biters if you are playing space age.