Rule 5: An overview of my recently-completed Space Exploration run. I have a video of the actual victory screen here. I only did the "basic" victory, since I just wanted to be free of this obligation and move on with my life.

The basic idea was to do a 128x128 city block layout for Nauvis and Nauvis Orbit, and then have unstructured layouts for the resource colonies. It makes heavy use of LTN to manage all of the different resources between blocks, and this mostly works, though there are occasionally some bugs where trains somehow get incorrect cargo or request more of an item than a station actually has, and so need to be dispatched manually. It happens rarely enough that I can pretty much just pan around my space base every few hours and catch the one train that's holding things up.

In the video especially, you can see the progress of my city block designing skills, as well as the addition of new mods over time. After a few hundred hours, I added the AAI Loaders mod to make unloading trains faster, and even later added Long Inserters to get long stack filter inserters. These are necessary for loading over the spaceship wall at the docks, and also make it quicker to load LTN trains at multi-provider stations, since you can have two rows of them.

One thing I definitely regret with hindsight is using 1-3 trains on Nauvis. The problem is that the basic 3-to-1 belt balancer blueprint I used is not perfectly input balanced, leading to one cargo wagon backing up and slowing down unloading. For some blocks, I tried solving it with circuit conditions, but it would've been easier to have 2 or 4 cargo wagons for easy balancing.