Factory games thread (because we like it here, not there) | Factorio | Page 1

somber wing Dec 19, 2022, 5:31 PM

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This makes sense

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@gritty mural now you are playing in the rich man's box... in fact, you are even richer than me, because I started in the northern forest where there are mostly pure but some normal resources, but there is more lushness and flat space to build

gritty mural Dec 19, 2022, 5:41 PM

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\o/

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yeah, better to spam game specific stuff here than in offtopic

gritty mural Dec 19, 2022, 5:59 PM

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dirty....

gritty mural Dec 19, 2022, 6:21 PM

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apparently, you can build this thing on water :P

gritty mural Dec 19, 2022, 7:12 PM

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desert sunset

burnt fiber Dec 19, 2022, 7:22 PM

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and once again NO foundations xd

You are reverting to caveman roots trianglepupper

strong sigil Dec 19, 2022, 9:02 PM

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burnt fiber Dec 19, 2022, 9:05 PM

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is that the beginning of a Dyson Structure? or does the star just have funny rings

strong sigil Dec 19, 2022, 9:05 PM

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It's my Dyson swarm

burnt fiber Dec 19, 2022, 9:05 PM

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noice

strong sigil Dec 19, 2022, 9:10 PM

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Homeworld

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Currently preparing to go interstellar, first scouting mission was a great success

strong sigil Dec 19, 2022, 9:49 PM

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All you need in a single star system, lol

somber wing Dec 19, 2022, 10:04 PM

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These ore counts are in thousands right

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or millions

strong sigil Dec 19, 2022, 10:04 PM

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Infinity!

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Just limited throughput

somber wing Dec 19, 2022, 10:12 PM

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I didnt know you could get achievements with infinite ore

strong sigil Dec 19, 2022, 11:03 PM

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Hmmm, I wonder what happens when I run out of energy hovering over one of these...

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lol

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Turns out ||those rocks are mineable too||

burnt fiber Dec 19, 2022, 11:22 PM

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strong sigil Hmmm, I wonder what happens when I run out of energy hovering over one of these....

well that was anticlimactic

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splish splash taking hot magma bath

strong sigil Dec 19, 2022, 11:23 PM

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Unlike diving into a normal ocean, there was no achievement for this, lol

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Hmmm, I think I should be able to generate power from this...

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I guess in this universe it's called magma when it's at the surface?

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Neat, 3MW

somber wing Dec 19, 2022, 11:26 PM

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Its also a chinese game with pretty sketchy translation at many points so, uh, yeah

strong sigil Dec 19, 2022, 11:27 PM

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Shame I need 60

strong sigil Dec 19, 2022, 11:27 PM

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somber wing Its also a chinese game with pretty sketchy translation at many points so, uh, y...

Eh

somber wing Dec 19, 2022, 11:27 PM

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Geothermal power station is really bad for when in the game it shows up, imo

strong sigil Dec 19, 2022, 11:28 PM

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It shows up early enough I think, it just takes a while from there until it actually becomes useful, unless you happen to have a lava planet in your home system

somber wing Dec 19, 2022, 11:28 PM

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I think it should be at least double as much, for any percent of magma concentration

strong sigil Dec 19, 2022, 11:29 PM

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It's not exactly cheap, needing a supermagnetic ring...

somber wing Dec 19, 2022, 11:29 PM

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Its like the geothermal power station in satisfactory... for when it shows up in the game, it is kind of shite given by that point you almost certainly have the power requirement to have build a decently sized fuel/turbo fuel generator factory

strong sigil Dec 19, 2022, 11:34 PM

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They're neat I guess... For now they'll stop this grid from collapsing completely

gritty mural Dec 20, 2022, 3:31 AM

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strong sigil lol

armor made of unobtanium

gritty mural Dec 20, 2022, 3:34 AM

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burnt fiber and once again NO foundations xd You are reverting to caveman roots <:trianglep...

I can't be arsed to build foundations while still gathering leaves for power... I can build them now as I've just started the coal plant

stone rose Dec 20, 2022, 12:20 PM

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burnt fiber Dec 20, 2022, 1:02 PM

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Pure Copper factory?

gritty mural Dec 20, 2022, 1:05 PM

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building in the sky ?

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not sure why you're bothering with the pillar, in this game concrete seems to float in mid air

burnt fiber Dec 20, 2022, 1:06 PM

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well you gotta get up there somehow

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cant just build stuff midair

somber wing Dec 20, 2022, 1:06 PM

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I think that pillar goes down into the void, no?

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I can see paradise island in the background

burnt fiber Dec 20, 2022, 1:07 PM

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no the pillar has a foot

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you can see it

gritty mural Dec 20, 2022, 1:07 PM

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burnt fiber cant just build stuff midair

no, but you can scoop'em up after going up, which is what I did to climb to the tallest mountains :P

burnt fiber Dec 20, 2022, 1:08 PM

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i Just use ladders or lookout towers to get everywhere

gritty mural Dec 20, 2022, 1:08 PM

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building in front and removing in the back, like in the cartoons :P

burnt fiber Dec 20, 2022, 1:09 PM

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its glorious

gritty mural Dec 20, 2022, 1:09 PM

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which is weird because the game does have physics, it just doesn't apply to concrete slabs and other structures

burnt fiber Dec 20, 2022, 1:10 PM

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would be horrible if it did

gritty mural Dec 20, 2022, 1:10 PM

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well, no, but it would require actually building support pillars for things

burnt fiber Dec 20, 2022, 1:10 PM

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structural integrity, a terrible thought

gritty mural Dec 20, 2022, 1:11 PM

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it doesn't need to be physically accurate, but for example it wouldn't allow you to build more than 4-5 sideways foundations without a pillar that goes all the way to ground level

burnt fiber Dec 20, 2022, 1:11 PM

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Eh the game very much encourages "dont build what you dont like" mentality.

yes, you COULD clip belts through everything, but if it looks ugly to you, why do it

gritty mural Dec 20, 2022, 1:12 PM

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some youtubers seem to do that too

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they just make a big bowl of 🍝

burnt fiber Dec 20, 2022, 1:12 PM

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also, you couldnt build funny UFOs with those constraints

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or airships

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hmm... other fun stuff includes cranes

gritty mural Dec 20, 2022, 1:13 PM

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eh, true... same thing in no mans sky

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lots of people build "low orbit" bases

burnt fiber Dec 20, 2022, 1:14 PM

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if you want pillars, then you will build pillars

stone rose Dec 20, 2022, 1:34 PM

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burnt fiber cant just build stuff midair

you can

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ChibiHappy

burnt fiber Dec 20, 2022, 1:36 PM

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nah

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you need somewhere to start

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you cant aim a foundation in mid air and just build it there, need something to connect it to.

then later on you could dismantle that connection

stone rose Dec 20, 2022, 1:36 PM

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In this game, water is the ground for foundations

burnt fiber Dec 20, 2022, 2:00 PM

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i dont see it 🤷
must be fake water, thats common near the edge of the map

errant eagle Dec 20, 2022, 2:45 PM

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aw, another thread to dilute offtopic and [dis]appear randomly

somber wing Dec 20, 2022, 2:48 PM

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gritty mural it doesn't need to be physically accurate, but for example it wouldn't allow you...

Clickbait title: I MADE 90% OF MY PLAYERBASE LEAVE WITH THESE 10 WORDS!

gritty mural Dec 20, 2022, 3:35 PM

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yeah I'm not sure this thread is a good idea.... it was just a few of us discussing about these other games once every few days

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not really consuming the offtopic attention...

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at the same time, people are discussing 3d printers for hours every day and there is no thread for that

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anyway, I feel kinda burnt out of SF today, might take a week long break from it

somber wing Dec 20, 2022, 3:41 PM

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burnt fiber i dont see it 🤷 must be fake water, thats common near the edge of the map

lol, they mean that the water is a flat plane so theres no terrain that will block anything and you don't have to build really high up to make sure you don't hit any terrain

somber wing Dec 20, 2022, 3:41 PM

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gritty mural anyway, I feel kinda burnt out of SF today, might take a week long break from it

Fair, I tend to get burnt out on it really fast if I'm not playing with my mates

strong sigil Dec 20, 2022, 4:01 PM

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errant eagle aw, another thread to dilute offtopic and [dis]appear randomly

There's a setting for that, apparently

errant eagle Dec 20, 2022, 4:01 PM

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is that per-server or per-thread?

strong sigil Dec 20, 2022, 4:03 PM

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Per thread

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#1013456118506336326 was set to 24 hours, which is why it kept disappearing

gritty mural Dec 20, 2022, 5:11 PM

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that one needs about 2 years of wait time to not disappear :P

gritty mural Dec 21, 2022, 7:12 AM

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I am ... somewhere high :P

strong sigil Dec 21, 2022, 7:53 AM

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Can confirm

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That looks pretty high

gritty mural Dec 21, 2022, 8:09 AM

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to trigger some people

burnt fiber Dec 21, 2022, 9:45 AM

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cant complain, its a 3 to 8 setup

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if it works it works 🤣

somber wing Dec 21, 2022, 2:39 PM

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Watery spaghett, just how I like it

gritty mural Dec 21, 2022, 2:55 PM

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final update for the day, I'm slowly dismantling the starter things and building a network of platforms

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lol, I can see the edge of the map from here

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look ma! I'm on outer space

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I don't think I'm supposed to see this thing from above

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let alone sit on some magic invisible platform

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apparently falling into water from all the way up there yelds no consequences, 0 damage.

burnt fiber Dec 21, 2022, 3:47 PM

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Fall Damage reduction like minecraft

stone rose Dec 21, 2022, 10:16 PM

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gritty mural to trigger some people

gritty mural Dec 22, 2022, 10:18 AM

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this one is quite different than my last game

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it's a city on stilts

gritty mural Dec 22, 2022, 11:07 AM

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🍝 on medium_electric_pole

burnt fiber Dec 22, 2022, 1:58 PM

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Ever unlocked over/underclocking before?

stone rose Dec 22, 2022, 2:21 PM

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ChibiHappy

gritty mural Dec 22, 2022, 2:55 PM

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burnt fiber Ever unlocked over/underclocking before?

obviously

stone rose Dec 22, 2022, 3:28 PM

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burnt fiber Ever unlocked over/underclocking before?

The basic mechanic of Overclocking remains largely unchanged, but we’ve lowered the exponential power cost change. This means that Overclocking is less expensive than it was before, and Underclocking is not quite as cheap.

Generators are the only exception to this rule: They Over- and Underclock completely linear.

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It is now possible to build power plants of a much smaller size

gritty mural Dec 22, 2022, 3:37 PM

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stone rose <:ChibiHappy:448119648576077825>

I don't understand what's here

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other that you are very very high above somewhere

stone rose Dec 22, 2022, 3:39 PM

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is a railroad that can accommodate 8 trains

gritty mural Dec 22, 2022, 3:52 PM

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ah... not really sure how those work, reached the tech in the last game but I wanted to build something else so no longer continuing that one

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I did figure out tractors & trucks tho, but I still have to figure out in which scenario they are more efficient than just a fast belt

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I guess I haven't yet reached the distances and volume for them to make sense

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it definitely feels harder to scale up in this game than in factorio

burnt fiber Dec 22, 2022, 4:01 PM

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gritty mural I did figure out tractors & trucks tho, but I still have to figure out in which ...

General rule of thumb:

Vehicles are effective up to around 750 - 1500m (you can click on places with your cursor with Alt+ Left Click to "ping" and get a distance to that ping)

for 2km+, Trains are usually better.

Especially if you might need to upgrade those transport lines

gritty mural Dec 22, 2022, 4:14 PM

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what about minimum ? as in, how far something should be to bother with implementing a vehicle route instead of just belting things?

gritty mural Dec 22, 2022, 5:11 PM

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lol I just realized I can paint shit

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ffsake, now I have to rebuild everything...

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every time I learn something significant I feel like my current game is a failure and want to start from scratch

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suffering from severe restartitis

burnt fiber Dec 22, 2022, 8:37 PM

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gritty mural ffsake, now I have to rebuild everything...

why rebuild? just paint it

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or change material, if you bought some in the awesome shop

stone rose Dec 23, 2022, 1:36 PM

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railway

stone rose Dec 23, 2022, 1:53 PM

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@gritty mural What it is connected to

gritty mural Dec 23, 2022, 2:07 PM

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lol

stone rose Dec 23, 2022, 2:53 PM

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gritty mural lol

cringe

burnt fiber Dec 23, 2022, 6:28 PM

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stone rose <@239330641617879041> What it is connected to

... exporting petroleum coke?

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what for, coke steel alt recipe?

stone rose Dec 23, 2022, 6:29 PM

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burnt fiber what for, coke steel alt recipe?

yes

burnt fiber Dec 23, 2022, 6:30 PM

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hm... wouldnt packaging and exporting heavy oil be easier? coke is quite volumous

stone rose Dec 23, 2022, 6:35 PM

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1 stack = 200 items

burnt fiber Dec 23, 2022, 6:39 PM

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hm, 40 seconds per stack

stone rose Dec 24, 2022, 10:13 AM

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ChibiHappy

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15 iron ore + 15 oil coal = 20 steel ingot

stone rose Dec 24, 2022, 11:34 AM

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I'm slowly starting to make plus or minus normal production

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@gritty mural

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I need batteries for a rainy day

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ChibiOhno

burnt fiber Dec 24, 2022, 12:26 PM

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wow, never thought i'd actually see someone use the Coated Iron Plate alt for real and not just meme'ing

stone rose Dec 25, 2022, 7:01 AM

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burnt fiber wow, never thought i'd actually see someone use the Coated Iron Plate alt for re...

it's quite a profitable craft

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 10:44 AM

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I've abandoned the desert because it was looking too boring, so now I'm building in the grasslands a foundation 🍝 thing :P

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and first time using wall holes :P

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I know it's kinda small still, but this game is literally called "no rush"... I'm just experimenting with things. Quite obvious that I won't be reaching the end of Phase 4 anytime soon, if ever...

somber wing Dec 25, 2022, 11:05 AM

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As long as you're having fun~~

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 11:06 AM

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3D 🍝 best 🍝

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 12:18 PM

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stone rose <@239330641617879041> What it is connected to

I know where you are as in current game I used the same spot for oil, but I don't really know what you're doing... still long way to go for me, I'm barely cracking 600 MW in this game

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 12:19 PM

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stone rose cringe

haha, it was a quick and dirty game start, just to get to coal power without wasting too much time, I was burning coal after under 4 hours

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same game is now in the picture above, that ground level 🍝 is demolished and turned into 3️⃣ 🇩 🍝

stone rose Dec 25, 2022, 12:30 PM

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gritty mural I know where you are as in current game I used the same spot for oil, but I don'...

I am very lazy to build plastic and rubber recycling from fuel, so I do separately

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that my save game

📎 251222-111531.sav

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You can from the spawn point, go down to the line "stinky" there is a mini concrete plant. And then go to a huge factory, there are stairs (though it is a little under-constructed, but I do not think that you will be an obstacle) and also the train at the blue-black station goes often, you can ride and see the plastic and power on the gasoline

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 1:57 PM

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not that completely noob anymore, isn't it ?

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 2:21 PM

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left side I'll redo a bit later, it's my initial power setup

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much better :P

burnt fiber Dec 25, 2022, 2:42 PM

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looks good!

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 3:42 PM

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burnt fiber looks good!

if I want to make a roof for the power plant, do I just clip through the chimneys?

burnt fiber Dec 25, 2022, 3:42 PM

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you can if you want

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coal gens have something called complex clearance

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 3:43 PM

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there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to build a roof for coal burners

burnt fiber Dec 25, 2022, 3:43 PM

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the chimneys poke through more than the othe rparts

burnt fiber Dec 25, 2022, 3:43 PM

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gritty mural there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to build a roof for coal burners

buy roofs in the shop?

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 3:43 PM

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I have roofs, but I mean, a roof that fits the chimney

burnt fiber Dec 25, 2022, 3:43 PM

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and maybe build the classica zig-zag factory roof

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you can just clip them through the roof parts in any case

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 3:44 PM

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I think I'll clip through it at the point between colors

burnt fiber Dec 25, 2022, 3:44 PM

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and then hide it a bit more with pillars or similar

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 3:44 PM

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burnt fiber Dec 25, 2022, 3:44 PM

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hmmm... if that aligns with standard wall heights.....

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 3:44 PM

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we'll see

burnt fiber Dec 25, 2022, 3:45 PM

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is this your first time actually decorating a build?

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 3:45 PM

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yep

burnt fiber Dec 25, 2022, 3:45 PM

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now you're getting into the real grit of Satis, the madness of architecture xd

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 3:45 PM

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yeah, I kinda figured that out that's the long game

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not some "number"

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well I do have a bit of experience in building things in NMS

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but this is waaaaay more complex than the build system in nms

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I just unlocked glass some 30 mins ago, but my quartz/silica stock is very limited, there is no quartz patch nearby... guess I'll have to find one

burnt fiber Dec 25, 2022, 3:49 PM

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aww.... the smokestack is not really height aligned

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oh wait

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it is

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but you need to use 4 m walls and then the 1m walls

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 3:50 PM

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I'll find a way... the next time I go there, for now with the new power I want to advance a bit more

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make a sky bridge to the oil and a long-ass belt to it

burnt fiber Dec 25, 2022, 3:50 PM

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gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 3:50 PM

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what about flat roof instead?

burnt fiber Dec 25, 2022, 3:50 PM

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gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 3:51 PM

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for the intersection part?

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that's not bad

burnt fiber Dec 25, 2022, 3:51 PM

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thats with flat

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 3:51 PM

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should work !

burnt fiber Dec 25, 2022, 3:51 PM

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works reasonably well yea

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height: 27 m

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 3:52 PM

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copper processing :P

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I wonder what sort of gigantic monstrosity I'll build when I really understand what goes where and what fits with what :P

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still so "young", barely crossed 100hrs

burnt fiber Dec 25, 2022, 3:57 PM

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still my fave build i did so far

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 3:57 PM

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aaaaah, lights

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I completely forgot about those

burnt fiber Dec 25, 2022, 3:57 PM

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make sure the light quality setting is on high or medium when you build some

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ultra is confirmed to be broken

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 3:58 PM

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it's on high

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everything else on ultra

burnt fiber Dec 25, 2022, 3:58 PM

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aight

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if you have shadow flickers, try shadows on high too

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 3:59 PM

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didn't notice anything special...

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just when climbing to ridiculous heights I noticed various rendering errors, but that's most likely LOD related, as there's too much stuff on the screen

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 4:00 PM

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gritty mural I've abandoned the desert because it was looking too boring, so now I'm building...

like this picture, there's stuff which looks ... weird

burnt fiber Dec 25, 2022, 4:01 PM

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yeah the map chunk lods

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and machine lods

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 5:20 PM

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so... is this a cheat or a valid way to play ?

errant eagle Dec 25, 2022, 5:32 PM

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Elevated causeway?

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 5:35 PM

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a long string of foundations all the way from the main factory to the oil, avoiding any and all terrain

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but it's not supported by anything :P

burnt fiber Dec 25, 2022, 6:08 PM

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gritty mural so... is this a cheat or a valid way to play ?

thats valid, skybridges

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people tend to decorate them

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 7:05 PM

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uh oh ;-)

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yay, it works

gritty mural Dec 25, 2022, 7:06 PM

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burnt fiber people tend to decorate them

I will add pillars... eventually

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plastic arriving too

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tomorrow I'll make a hypertube on it too... damn that oil is far !

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2.15 km.... 😵‍💫

errant eagle Dec 25, 2022, 7:32 PM

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Skyblock? :P

stone rose Dec 25, 2022, 7:49 PM

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@gritty mural

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build oil-energy

stone rose Dec 27, 2022, 7:52 PM

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building a new part of the plant

gritty mural Dec 27, 2022, 10:05 PM

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stone rose building a new part of the plant

one small click for pioneer, one giant blueprint for pioneerkind

fathom forge Jan 3, 2023, 8:54 AM

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Has anyone here heard of "Factorio". It's a small game, you probably haven't 😛

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In all seriousness, I tried getting into Satisfactory and while I did enjoy it at the time, when I got back into it and found my power grid died and it was going to be a huge challenge to get it restarted I kind of gave up.
Other than Minecraft Mods which for me is kind of my origin for factory games, Dyson Sphere Program is probably my most favourite full factory game and really feels like it actually expands on the goals of a factory game really well. Like, what's past the factorio rocket? I've never really enjoyed how Factorio mods answered that question but I did really enjoy how DSP took it into the 3rd dimension along with all the other bits. I'm interested to see how they go about introducing this new enemy.

somber wing Jan 3, 2023, 9:02 PM

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Same, I'm hyped for that update

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And based on all the previous updates I have almost no skepticism that they will implement it badly

strong sigil Jan 3, 2023, 9:43 PM

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So I was expecting a better version of the default miner... Not this monstrosity

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I'll take it though, lol

somber wing Jan 3, 2023, 10:01 PM

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It's amazing because it can stack output too

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 3:38 PM

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SF is definitely not easy to get into... even with my thousands of hours of Factorio experience I'm still finding it tough to balance resources and construction properly in this game.... the 3rd dimension does create a huge amount of confusion

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and then the alt recipes really mess things up... you think you have something well set up, then find an alt recipe which is more efficient but you have to rebuild everything in that area if you want to use it, as the ingredients can vary widely

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 3:40 PM

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fathom forge In all seriousness, I tried getting into Satisfactory and while I did enjoy it a...

the power grid dying is just a thing for early game, it doesn't take much to figure out how to move away from that stage

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but yea, that "early game" can be 20+ hours easily for a new player

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imagine if factorio would be in burner stage for 20 hrs :P

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SF is definitely a lot slower than factorio in game evolution

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power in my most recent game, it's not even all it can be, as I have fuel for several more fuel generators, but I don't really need that much power rn

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fixed production is perfectly steady, and I won't cross 2250 MW anytime soon... got a lot more building to do

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one of these days I should start thinking about blueprints because it takes too damn much to build simple things...

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 3:49 PM

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blueprints are a must for refineries and manufacturers onwards

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the dozen of connections are a pain

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also some BPs for smelter or constructor arrays

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lots of little, complex repepetive stuff that BPs simplify

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 3:50 PM

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yeah I can imagine that, a lot of the thigns are do are very repetitive.... I just need to get my head around it

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and my head is still spinning after the NY ;-)

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 3:51 PM

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if you catch yourself doing something that is repetetive, try and see if BPs can simplify it

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 3:51 PM

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next on the list is a 24-constructor setup for those damn screws

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 3:51 PM

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that already sounds BP worthy

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 3:51 PM

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might as well try to blueprint it

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 3:52 PM

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if not the exact setup, then at least a general BP for 4 or 8 constructors

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that makes placing and hooking up 24 constructors just 6 BPs

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 3:52 PM

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yeah, at least some steps should be saved

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 3:53 PM

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just a general question: how do you go about planning factories?

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i sometimes see people being torn on bottom-up planning vs top-down planning

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 3:54 PM

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currently I seem to be playing "module" type (those are multi-level, not just 1 floor)

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there are more of such "buildings" in other areas

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 3:56 PM

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ah, neat

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hmmm Rocky Desert

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 3:58 PM

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yeah, I abandoned the previous grass game, there was nothing wrong with it, but wanted to try the rocks too

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wasnt' very advanced anyway so no loss

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next step is combining these two and expanding it into a giant rods+screws plant, with stuff consuming screws on the top

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heavy frames to be more precise, those are devouring screws like crazy

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computers too... but to less extent

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 3:59 PM

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gritty mural yeah, I abandoned the previous grass game, there was nothing wrong with it, but ...

tbf Grass Fields is rather unforgiving with the weak coal and water spots

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and node quality in general

strong sigil Jan 4, 2023, 4:00 PM

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gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:00 PM

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yeah it's not really pleasant once you move past the basic stuff

strong sigil Jan 4, 2023, 4:00 PM

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Help, my gas giant is having issues

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:00 PM

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strong sigil

after I beat SF I'll start DSP too ;-)

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:01 PM

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strong sigil Help, my gas giant is having issues

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strong sigil Jan 4, 2023, 4:01 PM

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More eye candy

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:01 PM

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cool !

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:01 PM

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oh nice, last time it was just a swarm, now theres some actual structure!

strong sigil Jan 4, 2023, 4:02 PM

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Slooowly absorbing the swarm now

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:02 PM

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gritty mural heavy frames to be more precise, those are devouring screws like crazy

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:03 PM

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burnt fiber

hahahahaha

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explored map so far

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:03 PM

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thats approximately..... 12 - 15%

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maaaybe 20

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:04 PM

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yea I know, at least the desert is "known"

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:04 PM

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how's it been treating you

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:04 PM

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will go deeper once I can afford deploying trains

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tbh it went pretty well, especially considering I wasted lots of time on architecture

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those pure nodes are definitely helping !

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:05 PM

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finally you are getting into the fancy decorations xd

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and yeah, prettying up stuff can be suuuuch a huge timesink

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BPs could help but then you kinda have to lock yourself into a building style

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"Alexa, download 15th century gothic architecture blueprints"

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:07 PM

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many ... walls

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:07 PM

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burnt fiber finally you are getting into the fancy decorations xd

not really decorations yet, but trying to make it look like a plant instead of just a field that grows machines on it

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:08 PM

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eeeh i see some walls, some windows, some doors, its getting there

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pillars and walkways too

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:08 PM

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ah yea, there are lots of walkways between things

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on the inside too

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:09 PM

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i set up a hypertube once but now i just use the zipline with sprint mode

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goes like 80 km/h

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:10 PM

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I can walk between machines :P

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:11 PM

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neat!
i see yellow lights, whats stalling there xd

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:11 PM

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burnt fiber i set up a hypertube once but now i just use the zipline with sprint mode

I keep falling down... ziplining takes a bit too much mental effort

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:11 PM

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burnt fiber neat! i see yellow lights, whats stalling there xd

everything :P

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:11 PM

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thats why you use the ceiling power poles

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:11 PM

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this is the part I have to fully rebuild

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:11 PM

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the awesome shop has the wall support for cables

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which doubles as a ceiling pole

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:11 PM

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you mean these

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:11 PM

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ye

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if you use the cable tool and click on a cable pole and then aim somewhere, you get a powerpole normally

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aim at a wall or the ceiling and it switches to a wall socket

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:13 PM

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tbh slide jumping with blade runners is damn fast, 100+ kmh

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:13 PM

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the poles can even be placed on beams

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:13 PM

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I didn't really feel the need for other transportation methods... its only drawback is that it doesn't work upwards

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:14 PM

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gritty mural

but as seen here, I'm "cheating" with skybridges so... it kinda works

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:14 PM

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eh, it works, aint cheating

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:14 PM

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burnt fiber the poles can even be placed on beams

I noticed, they are pretty nice

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next step will be to build dedicated roads for the buggy

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that thing is pretty damn nice, that's how most of the northern part of the rocky desert is visible

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I just... drove there

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:15 PM

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yeah its pretty accessible

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same for the other desert

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:16 PM

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one of these days when I'm bored I'll drive on the beach all the way to grass start ^.^

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visit the old places

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anyway, I still don't really know what would be an actually good layout for stuff... youtube seems to be divided between giant megafactories with everything in one "building" and very spread out mini-factories that produce one single thing

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:20 PM

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each one has upsides and downsides

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The game itself hates megafactories performance wise

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and at every point, ADA encourages you to make outposts

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:21 PM

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unlike factorio which tends to become kinda the same for every high-end player, this game does not... the 3D world makes it pretty impossible for two players to play the same (without copying each other)

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:21 PM

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yup, which is also why the static map isnt as much of an issue

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you have SO MANY OPTIONS of how you can build factories

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and when you are bored, you can just make a Cart Racing Track

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:21 PM

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I saw a video where someone built UNDER the map

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:22 PM

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yeah, theres enough holes in the Map geometry for you to go underneath

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:22 PM

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ridiculous :P

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I'm surprised the game doesn't kill you when you get to such places

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:22 PM

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you could also just build floating sky factories

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:22 PM

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eh, floating is easy

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:22 PM

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gritty mural I'm surprised the game doesn't kill you when you get to such places

it does, but only when you go too deep

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there is a depth and height limit

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same for the map borders N E S W

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:23 PM

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I tried that once, you just .. start dying :P

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:23 PM

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first you take damage, then it ramps up, then afterwards theres a kill plane if you are still alive

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:23 PM

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kinda lame... but I guess an invisible wall would be more lame

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:24 PM

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i dont even know what the "edge" in Factorio looks like, never been there

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:24 PM

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it's simply black

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like the ribbon world black, but... very far away, unlike the ribbon

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:25 PM

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both are equally lame tbh xd
Good world edges dont exist

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either its an invis wall or a kill zone

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:25 PM

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however it is not a barrier, with "airplane" mod you can just fly over it

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into nothingness

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what I didn't try yet is using the editor to create land.... which I have a feeling it will simply work

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:26 PM

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gritty mural heavy frames to be more precise, those are devouring screws like crazy

IMO, heavy modular frames screws is a bad recipe, unless you have cast iron screws, since you can make like 480 * 6 screws from one pure iron node w/ mk2 miner

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:26 PM

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the Encased Heavy Frame alt is a godsent

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concrete instead of screws

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:26 PM

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somber wing IMO, heavy modular frames screws is a bad recipe, unless you have cast iron scre...

I have only found 4 hdds so far so... not heavy into alts yet

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:27 PM

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Oof

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:27 PM

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I'm not cheating my way with the website, want to find them for real

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:27 PM

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whenever you see a recipe that seems ugly, theres DEFINITELY an alt for that

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:27 PM

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Maybe it is worth to go exploring a bit first

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:27 PM

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Alts are like drugs

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:27 PM

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I mean, I found 3 which I can't open yet due to ingredients

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:28 PM

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you can get pretty far by picking up the stuff lying near crash sites

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:28 PM

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I'm sure once I got hdd scanning functional there will be more which I just missed

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:28 PM

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They must be higher tier ones right? Cos IIRC it only gives suggestions for items you have unlocked

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:28 PM

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Its Tier based IIRC

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the odd thing tho is you can get the pure recipes in refineries in Tier 3

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thats one of the only out-of-place unlock requirements i know

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:29 PM

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That's because you have those items unlocked

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:29 PM

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still, Tier 5 is quite a way to go

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:29 PM

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for example there is one here on the cliff and it wants heat sinks

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:29 PM

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It's same with computer alt recipes for example

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:30 PM

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I don't even know what are those...

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:30 PM

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usually you only get alts for things you already can make and already have the machines for

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:30 PM

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Ah right I see, the unlock cost for them

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:30 PM

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yea, that's what I mean, the ability to actually grab the hdd

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not what alt it unlocks

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:30 PM

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fair.

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:30 PM

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One of the downsides for building in the desert is that many of the crash sites have costs that are way higher tiers

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:31 PM

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usuallly you can find heat sinks lying near other crash sites

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:31 PM

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it seems so, yes

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I'm in no rush

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will get them when I get them

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:31 PM

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Yeah, I know of a couple of crash sites with heat sinks in the red forest/northern forest boundary area

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:31 PM

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When I started this game I thought I'm just very noob and building slowly and it took me 50 hrs to get oil stage first time

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:32 PM

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thats not even slow

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:32 PM

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then after that everything seemed to be moving at crawling pace...

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but then saw youtube videos "it took 700 hours to get to..."

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:32 PM

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some say it can take 100 hours on average to reach the end

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:32 PM

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OKAY, the game is this slow.

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:32 PM

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other just like restarting early on over and over

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and thus never actually saw Tier 7 or 8

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:33 PM

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also people with "I have 4000 hours in satisfactory"

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geee.... no kiddin' ?

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:34 PM

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How many hours do you have in Factorio? 😆

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:34 PM

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this game is Ficsit(R) Life Sink™️

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2600, give or take, 2500 on steam

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:35 PM

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over how many years.... or months?

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the people with 4000 hours likely played since 2019

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:35 PM

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hmm, 2 years, or 3 ? I can't remember... I started exactly when 1.0 launched

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when did it launch?

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:35 PM

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Aug 2020

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:35 PM

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well, so 2 years and a bit then

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:36 PM

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Game is pretty fast (50 ish hours) between tier 0 and tier 4, then tiers 5 & 6 is usually another 30-50 hours depending on your "skill", and finally tiers 7 & 8 are a good 200 hours

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:36 PM

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woof...

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:36 PM

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depending on how much you overbuild the last elevator parts

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:36 PM

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I can "speedrun" Factorio in 5 hrs :P

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definitely not the same game speed class

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:36 PM

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Thats generally just for a low rate, but remember that you need like 1k of each item

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:36 PM

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best case, you make like 5 parts/min of everything and are done with 10 hours of waiting

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:37 PM

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You can't make 5 nuclear pasta/min

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:37 PM

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not with that attitude

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:37 PM

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I think that it would use all of the world's resources including power required

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:37 PM

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the max for pasta with all needed alts is apparently 60/min

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:38 PM

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Oh wow

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Including power?

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:38 PM

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"nuclear pasta" in physics is "neutronium", as in, the stuff from which Neutron Stars are made

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:38 PM

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I am watching a guy with like 800 hours in a world and he just finished automating 4.5/min and his copper powder factory is like 480 refinaries of pure copper

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:38 PM

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matter so crushed that protons and electrons no longer exist, they've been pressed together into neutrons

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:38 PM

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nope, but its 265765 ish MW

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:39 PM

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and is billions of times denser than the densest normal matter

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:39 PM

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thats about 106 nuclear reactors

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sooooo roughly half of all uranium xd

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:39 PM

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Thats quite a lot of waste to deal with

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Probably turn into plutonium and sink

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:39 PM

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recycling, yeah....

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i hope we arent spoiling too much 👀

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:40 PM

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Uhh, good point

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:40 PM

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nah, already saw the items & stuff...

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youtube etc.

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:40 PM

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😌

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:40 PM

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gritty mural and is billions of times denser than the densest normal matter

yes, THAT Nuclear Pasta

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:40 PM

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me actually makign them for real.. eh, that's another story

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:41 PM

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behold: Blue Spaghetti

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cook in microwave for 2 minutes

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:41 PM

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it will be interesting to see in which month of this year I actually manage to produce this item :P

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it most likely won't be january, by the look of things :P

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:42 PM

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hint: this is the ultimate form of the modular frame

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so you can already guess how much of a beast it is

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:44 PM

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Its kinda crazy that for a "normal player" that doesn't build fucking gigantic factories/power stations for everything, having to make 500 of these or whatever the count is, is actually insane

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:44 PM

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that last delivery is currenty placeholder

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:44 PM

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Yeah, but when 1.0 comes out

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:44 PM

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we dont know how many you will actually need once 1.0 comes around

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:44 PM

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Ah they said that the exact numbers is temp?

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That's fair then

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:44 PM

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ye

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its just so the mega builders have a goal to waste time on xd

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:46 PM

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Tbf, even 1/min at 1k items is "only" 42 hours of time, which can build up while you work on automating the other two things

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:46 PM

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yeah, the entire progression pretty much is "how long do you wanna wait on this"

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:47 PM

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One of my mates played through the whole game with like 2 machines per item in a huge spaghetti mess in green fields by just going AFK all day during work lol

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:47 PM

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i never afk'd and wont ever because i dont really wanna waste power

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if im gonna waste power i wanna do so actively

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(real power, that is)

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:48 PM

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the same

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this cuts my gpu power almost in half, for very little performance loss

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:49 PM

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I'm WFH so my PC doubles both as my heater (I never have to run the heating here) and I tend to run some of my modding tools that may take hours to run so I can watch over it there

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:49 PM

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(in satisfactory anyway... consuming 120-150 W while playing instead of the 230 W normal for this gpu)

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:50 PM

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Energy bills are much lower than average, in a household of 2

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:51 PM

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our pricing got kicked up by 240% ☹️

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:51 PM

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UK?

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:51 PM

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EU

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:51 PM

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energy situation here still sucks, and will probably continue to suck until UA can restart Zaporizhzhia and being exporting electricity

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:51 PM

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Oh, well that is about the same as us in the UK

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:52 PM

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but for that to happen people need to stop shooting each other...

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:52 PM

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most of our cost is from domestic ventilation, that thing is resposible for our hot water too

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:52 PM

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Are you in Lviv?

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:53 PM

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who, me ? No... Romania... close enough tho

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:54 PM

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I was working on a modding tool with a guy for most of last year, and only around September did he mention he lives in Lviv, and I was like, well that makes sense, but now I feel terrible about asking you to work on certain bits so much 😅

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:55 PM

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it's pretty bad for them :( but let's not get into offtopic-offtopic

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:55 PM

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Oh, right

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:55 PM

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this IS a "subcategory" of offtopic already tho xd

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:55 PM

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burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:55 PM

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COI?

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:55 PM

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This game called Railgrade I've been playing, its so fun

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:56 PM

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oh Railgrade

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never heard of that tbh

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:56 PM

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Yeah its small

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:56 PM

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burnt fiber this IS a "subcategory" of offtopic already tho xd

offtopic offtopic offtopic ?

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 4:56 PM

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offtopic²

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ok so what im seeing from searching for this game is.... Trains

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:58 PM

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When I wishlisted it ages ago I thought, this game looks cool but for £15? Nah. Then a couple weeks ago I realised its a UE game, so I planned on buying the game, dumping all the game's info, then refunding it, because I'm addicted to running/testing my modding tools on UE games. Then went on holiday, got bored, tried the game, was pleasantly surprised by how good it is

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 4:58 PM

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somber wing

does the game not allow you to build in air or it just automatically creates poles

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:58 PM

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And for a "linear" story, it's got a good 75-100 hours in it based on my current 25 hours at 30% completition

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 4:59 PM

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gritty mural does the game not allow you to build in air or it just automatically creates pol...

You have a specified build height limit, but it goes from like 5 tiles to 12 or something around 15% through the game

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The thing I really like about it, aside from general gameplay, is that even quite far into the game you are unlocking new things, so they don't just dump everything on you after the tutorial

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 5:01 PM

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that's nice, I like progressing games

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 5:01 PM

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You unlock more complicated manufacturing chains as you play through the story

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 5:01 PM

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somber wing When I wishlisted it ages ago I thought, this game looks cool but for £15? Nah. ...

not a fan of UE?

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 5:01 PM

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I love it

gritty mural Jan 4, 2023, 5:01 PM

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I usually quit games which are like "here's everything, have fun !" very early

burnt fiber Jan 4, 2023, 5:02 PM

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oh, the way you worded it sounded like "eh, UE, ill just rip the assets and then refund"

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 5:02 PM

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Fair

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I beat my PB of creating a full modkit for the game, previous was 23 hours, for this game it was only 4 hours

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Been talking to the devs about official mod support n all that, and turns out that they are all ex-modders themselves so have some amazing internal dev policies like zero engine edits

somber wing Jan 4, 2023, 5:05 PM

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gritty mural I usually quit games which are like "here's everything, have fun !" very early

I keep thinking, ok now I've unlocked everything, and then there is yet another, and I'm like ooooo this is gonna be fun! Not just manufacturing processes, but also train types which have their own pros and cons

somber wing Jan 5, 2023, 9:47 AM

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Clearly they optimised particle systems massively cos new DSP patch adds so much

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Looks super cool

somber wing Jan 5, 2023, 1:21 PM

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Aw the video is busted

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This was just a 2 hours mission, the spaghetti is nuts

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@lapis spear I feel this is the type of game you'd enjoy

strong sigil Jan 5, 2023, 1:25 PM

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lol, sounds about right

gritty mural Jan 5, 2023, 3:24 PM

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oh boy... rods

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this is my longest manifold so far... 16 in a row

burnt fiber Jan 5, 2023, 4:57 PM

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all that just for screws?

gritty mural Jan 5, 2023, 5:24 PM

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it looks small from up here, and yes, just rods and screws

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next construction round I'll start actually using all those screws, dropping 2 heavy frame thingies, that will devour them, 400 pm assuming no other shortages

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What I think I'll do is use the 3rd floor for plates and cancel the earlier game plate production on the right (which is still mk1)... instead, redirect that iron + coke from refineries which are ... somewhere in that direction to produce steel locally

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as I found a HDD with steel from petroleum coke, which is nice

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then I can fully build heavy frames here... and when that is done, I have to see how to make an equally large computers manufacturing place

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this game is about scaling, not just reaching a stage

lapis spear Jan 5, 2023, 6:39 PM

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somber wing <@119967698007359488> I feel this is the type of game you'd enjoy

Railgrade is pretty neat, but its like single map puzzles instead of infinite growth projects

gritty mural Jan 5, 2023, 7:47 PM

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this is very ... screwy

burnt fiber Jan 5, 2023, 10:29 PM

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building is looking neat so far! starting to look like an actual factory!

gritty mural Jan 5, 2023, 10:52 PM

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hahaha

gritty mural Jan 5, 2023, 11:11 PM

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damn, lol !

strong sigil Jan 5, 2023, 11:38 PM

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Are these effects above the ray receivers new? engithink

strong sigil Jan 6, 2023, 12:04 AM

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I don't understand this game... Half the times I run the game the Draw Call is 2ms, the other half it's at 12 like this...

strong sigil Jan 6, 2023, 12:46 AM

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I restarted my pc and it's stable at 4 again...

errant eagle Jan 6, 2023, 1:08 AM

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those are some neat visualizations

strong sigil Jan 6, 2023, 1:20 AM

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Turns out ice giants are pretty terrible for producing hydrogen...

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A gas giant will produce 4 times as much

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I guess the fire ice access in my home system is nice though...

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I think I have found the optimal planet to create a dyson sphere insertereyespy

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Tidally locked and around a blue star

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I can launch solar sails all day here!

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Also, the system has optical grating crystals and sulfuric acid, which is all I need for solar sails

strong sigil Jan 6, 2023, 2:25 AM

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60% done

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Power generation is now rapidly increasing

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Should take just over 2 hours until I have produced enough to fill it, then probably another 20-40 minutes to let the last bits fill in.

somber wing Jan 6, 2023, 12:50 PM

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strong sigil Are these effects above the ray receivers new? <:engithink:800737127121551380>

Yeah, added in a patch just yesterdat

strong sigil Jan 6, 2023, 12:50 PM

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Nice new clouds too

somber wing Jan 6, 2023, 12:50 PM

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Try going to a neutron star

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I think they were aiming for the combat update in march or something but since they're in Shangai with all the covid stuff half their team is unable to do work

strong sigil Jan 6, 2023, 12:55 PM

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Woah

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Oh neat, I've found how to get that "get to 3 km/s" achivement... Now to make it happen...

strong sigil Jan 6, 2023, 3:53 PM

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insertereyespy

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New belt hopping feature?

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I should probably read patch notes trianglepupper

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Ever had throughput issues on your chests?

somber wing Jan 6, 2023, 6:19 PM

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These new ray reciever particle effects add a surprising amount to the beauty already in the game

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somber wing Jan 6, 2023, 6:48 PM

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Kinda ran out of power omw to reaching 4,000 m/s

strong sigil Jan 6, 2023, 7:12 PM

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nice, lol

strong sigil Jan 6, 2023, 7:13 PM

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somber wing Kinda ran out of power omw to reaching 4,000 m/s

I've found that neutron stars work much better, they're way smaller so you can get very close to them before warping out

somber wing Jan 6, 2023, 7:13 PM

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Thats what I used

strong sigil Jan 6, 2023, 7:29 PM

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Ah, thought you were at a black hole

gritty mural Jan 7, 2023, 12:15 AM

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somehow I have the feeling this isn't how it's supposed to go

strong sigil Jan 7, 2023, 12:20 AM

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Looks fine to me :P

stone rose Jan 7, 2023, 4:55 AM

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gritty mural somehow I have the feeling this isn't how it's supposed to go

burnt fiber Jan 7, 2023, 10:53 AM

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automated train will probably be fine, but a manually driven one will likely kick you out if you go too deep into water

gritty mural Jan 7, 2023, 11:04 AM

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eh it was just for the lolz, to see what happens. I'm making a proper line on platforms as the real thing

fathom forge Jan 7, 2023, 11:26 AM

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strong sigil Tidally locked and around a blue star

My first ever system had a tidally locked planet with great solar... I was very happy about that!

strong sigil Jan 7, 2023, 11:27 AM

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Ooh, that makes things so much easier, lol

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I've always been stuck around ice giants

fathom forge Jan 7, 2023, 11:28 AM

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The perfect DSP mod would be one where you get to preference one or two traits to guarantee in your starting system

somber wing Jan 7, 2023, 11:57 PM

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Finally found a good thing to cap my main bus with

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You can tell when logistics bots were added by looking at the mall - before it was belt spaghetti, now it's bots only

strong sigil Jan 7, 2023, 11:59 PM

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somber wing Finally found a good thing to cap my main bus with

You can do better than that :P

somber wing Jan 7, 2023, 11:59 PM

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What?

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Loop it back on itself?

strong sigil Jan 7, 2023, 11:59 PM

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strong sigil Ever had throughput issues on your chests?

That

somber wing Jan 8, 2023, 12:00 AM

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Bruh

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Also theres like 1/4 of planet between end and start of bus lol

strong sigil Jan 8, 2023, 12:01 AM

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somber wing Jan 8, 2023, 12:02 AM

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Oh I see

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Thats handy

strong sigil Jan 8, 2023, 12:02 AM

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It can then be taken immediately by the bots

somber wing Jan 8, 2023, 1:20 AM

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Only half of the stuff on this planet are actually running... this is nuts

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It makes planars and strange matter

strong sigil Jan 8, 2023, 1:21 AM

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2GW of accumulators insertereyespy

somber wing Jan 8, 2023, 1:22 AM

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No, 2 GW of energy dischargers

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The full accumulators are shipped in from my planet that collects about 50GW of energy from my 490GW dyson sphere

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It's the only viable way of distributing energy, but it also happens to be incredibly good. On most planets I only need about 10 dischargers

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The other great thing with them is that if they provide >100% of the power for a grid, any sun stations will automatically turn off

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750 strange matter/min, not bad

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Seems good enough for like 1.5k gravity matrix/min

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Actually way more but I'll have to see if my bottleneck ends up being quantum chips which I mass automated quite a while ago now

strong sigil Jan 8, 2023, 1:29 AM

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somber wing No, 2 GW of energy dischargers

Still :P

somber wing Jan 8, 2023, 2:40 AM

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Oh god

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Thank god for the mall

strong sigil Jan 8, 2023, 2:43 AM

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somber wing Oh god

What am I even looking at? trianglepupper

somber wing Jan 8, 2023, 2:43 AM

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shoob 669 missing labs to be constructed

strong sigil Jan 8, 2023, 2:43 AM

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ah, lol

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Research lab speed :P

somber wing Jan 8, 2023, 2:44 AM

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Its mostly to look nice

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Science planet has gotta look like a lot of science is being done, even if half of them aren't working

strong sigil Jan 8, 2023, 2:45 AM

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But it doesn't look like science is getting done when the labs aren't rgb!

somber wing Jan 8, 2023, 2:47 AM

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Holy shit at least with whats in buffer for the next couple of hours I can do 120k hash/s

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Let's try doubling that by building the second research circle on the other pole

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Oh fuck red alert, my main power gen planet does not have enough energy exchangers so many planets are not satisfied on power

strong sigil Jan 8, 2023, 3:00 AM

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Uh-oh

somber wing Jan 8, 2023, 3:05 AM

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Need to make a big factory for producing these things, my mall cannot keep up with the massive energy usage consumption increase now that my main science planet is finally able to run at full swing

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This might actually be the first time that I have been bottlenecked by not enough logistic vessels in an interstellar logistics station

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Because this guy takes and recieves from like 20 star systems that are mostly around 20-40 light years away

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Need to have min load of the vessels at 10% otherwise if I request 200 full accumulators stock to a new planet, it will send 2k, which is very overkill

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Holy shit this looks incredible

somber wing Jan 8, 2023, 3:28 AM

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Ey nice

strong sigil Jan 8, 2023, 3:35 AM

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insertereyespy

somber wing Jan 8, 2023, 3:43 AM

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That's just over 15 million solar sails

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lmao so many belts

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That means I've literally placed 150k mk3 belts

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And my UPS is still a solid 60

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Wow, so spray coating the universe matricies before researching them gives me another 28k hashes/s for the price of a bit of extra power (obviously I spray coat basically everything else already, no reason not to)

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Research graph where low lumpy bits is how much my main base produces on its own, middle one is one pole of science planet running, latter is both poles running

strong sigil Jan 9, 2023, 12:13 AM

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Turns out there's a fast solar sail absorption mod insertereyespy

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My swarm is rapidly disappearing

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Nicely shows that it always takes youngest solar sails first...

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lol

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Absolutely beautiful

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Aaand there go the last ones

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56k solar sails absorbed in 15 minutes

somber wing Jan 9, 2023, 12:16 PM

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strong sigil Turns out there's a fast solar sail absorption mod <:insertereyespy:600727711635...

Holy shit great find an absolute godsend, I calculated using vanilla rate that it would take another 100 hours to complete my sphere because of the bottleneck of slow af absorbtion, I even had to turn off more than half of my ejectors

strong sigil Jan 9, 2023, 1:23 PM

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So much better, lol

somber wing Jan 9, 2023, 1:29 PM

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Oh I didnt even try spraying my solar sails yet, it speeds up shooting by 55%

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insertereyespy Absorbing 30k at any one time now

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Now it will only take roughly 5 hours

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Hmm, maybe longer if I don't increase my production rate to match consumption (5k/min of 10k/min)

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That's nucking futs

strong sigil Jan 9, 2023, 1:38 PM

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ChibiHappy

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I need more production, lol

somber wing Jan 9, 2023, 1:39 PM

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You got a big task ahead of you to massively scale up

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I focused on massive dyson sphere with 15 million solar sails first because I thought I needed the power, turns out for this huge science build of 2.5k universe matricies/min my entire star cluster only consumes 5% of my capacity

strong sigil Jan 9, 2023, 1:42 PM

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Prestige project :P

somber wing Jan 9, 2023, 1:42 PM

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Pretty much

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I thought that maybe in the milky way view my star would be bright but its not even close to many others that produce hundreds of TW (although I suspect many are using cheats for that)

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And well, mine is pretty much bang on the centre, so you can't really see it from the brightness of the thing in the middle

strong sigil Jan 9, 2023, 1:44 PM

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But yea, I'm still figuring out how to scale up properly. Guess I'll use the remaining space on my home planet to build the tier 2 and 3 machines, and then move to a blue system with 2 tidally locked planets for a new sphere.

somber wing Jan 9, 2023, 1:45 PM

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My biggest issue for scaling up was that I was too lazy to build a proper mall (aside from belts/assemblers/sorters) for ages, which was a huge pain in the arse. So I definately recommend you doing that for pretty much every building in the game

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Way easier now with the logistics bots

strong sigil Jan 9, 2023, 1:46 PM

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The number of logistics slots is also pretty limiting, should get a mod for that

somber wing Jan 9, 2023, 1:47 PM

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Oh yeah big inventory mod

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The only issue with it is that it causes an annoying red error banner if you open inventory with E (I almost always hit F for everything), and it only goes away if you quit to main menu and come back

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Like its ok just playing but if you wanna take a screenshot, its still there even if you hide HUD

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I tried to find an alternative but I couldn't find one

strong sigil Jan 12, 2023, 9:16 PM

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This makes the main menu simulations awesome ChibiHappy

strong sigil Jan 12, 2023, 9:23 PM

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somber wing The only issue with it is that it causes an annoying red error banner if you ope...

Cannot reproduce that, lol

cedar cairn Jan 16, 2023, 9:22 AM

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was looking for an other-games channel, Farlanders is a puzzley city builder:
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releasing tomorrow

frail rampart Jan 23, 2023, 5:44 PM

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I finally did a full loop of the satisfactory map after unlocking “radar towers”. There’s some very nice looking biomes in satisfactory even with my old GTX 970.

#Factory games thread (because we like it here, not there)