Supercomputers done! Making two manufacturers worth. Some goes to a bin for building, some will go towards radio control units, the rest into a shredder.
I had to break this one up a bit to make the best use of the space. Also Turbomotors are going to need a bunch of quickwire too so it was easier to make a discreet production line just for that. I'm kind of amazed I was able to keep the overall footprint this small actually. Manufacturers really throw off my ability to plan clean layouts somehow. They're so giant and need so many inputs.
There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I just spent a solid two hours tapping and powering my first oil extractor and now understand why wars are fought over this stuff.
I've also caved a little to efficiency setting up a row of industrial storage containers on my second level while the first level remains a horrific landscape of OSHA violations.
I rebuilt my iron works for the third time last night
This time I've designed it with expansion in mind so instead of being restricted to the horizontal axis and having things next to each other I've gone for rows. With the splitters I can have two rows of constructors / smelters / assemblers from each input feed and then the output all links back to a central point where it's split off into storage containers or moves on to the next stage. I made three floors - iron ore comes in the bottom and then the "advanced parts" (reinforced plates / rotors / modular sub frames) come out the top
I probably could've left it how it was and move onto trying to get steel up and running and move up the tiers but I wanted to get some practice in on making things work nicely and be able to ramp up production without a big, sprawling mess. I've got something like 1500 screws per minute which is a big step up from where I was a couple of days ago -- starving my assemblers of materials whilst everything waited for parts and making one frame every 5 minutes
But I'm not going to. Next I need to re-work the copper / caterium so that's doing the same thing. Can't wait!
The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
Do you think, when we eventually get dedicated servers, that production should be slower to compensate for the game always being running?
Nah. It’s not a competitive game, so “balance” isn’t really the same concern. Keeping production where it’s at helps respect players’ time and doesn’t push overnighting to be de facto mandatory.
Also, the important shop purchases are pretty easy to acquire. Mass tickets only matters if you’re trying to get statues. They could adjust the scaling for tickets once you’re in the hundreds, I suppose.
Yeah I don't see much of an issue letting things continue to run. I'm sure there will be some options like allowing for it only when someone is signed in, varied production rates, etc for those who want it.
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
So my internet went down yesterday. I tried playing offline but when I fired up the game it treated me as a new player with empty inventory. I didn't have anything critical like harddrives, but it's still annoying. Is that stuff gone now or will it reappear when I get online again?
So my internet went down yesterday. I tried playing offline but when I fired up the game it treated me as a new player with empty inventory. I didn't have anything critical like harddrives, but it's still annoying. Is that stuff gone now or will it reappear when I get online again?
Thats a little weird since the save is local.
There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
So my internet went down yesterday. I tried playing offline but when I fired up the game it treated me as a new player with empty inventory. I didn't have anything critical like harddrives, but it's still annoying. Is that stuff gone now or will it reappear when I get online again?
Thats a little weird since the save is local.
Maybe i died, its been a couple days. I didnt see a corpse icon though. Ill have to run around a bit.
So my internet went down yesterday. I tried playing offline but when I fired up the game it treated me as a new player with empty inventory. I didn't have anything critical like harddrives, but it's still annoying. Is that stuff gone now or will it reappear when I get online again?
Thats a little weird since the save is local.
Maybe i died, its been a couple days. I didnt see a corpse icon though. Ill have to run around a bit.
Try loading a slightly earlier save, if possible?
There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
You monsters tempted me. I now have a very small factory bringing in iron, copper, and limestone.
The first ore is free
Before long you'll be posting factory pics and talking about how you found a better way to route your screw production to account for a new alternate recipe and how it's so great that it cuts out an entire constructor step and this'll help you get your refineries going that much sooner and
me and a buddy got this and started playing this last weekend... and we played a whole lot of it. We're up to getting aluminum production online. This game has taken over my brain
Our original base hub is a mess of sprawling machinery and conveyor belts. Further away resource hubs have gotten a lot cleaner, but eventually everything leads back to the chaos factory
How many of you have used trains to transport goods yet? So far I have been running conveyors but I think Once I decide to extract resources from the other biomes I will go ahead and build a rail line.
Uses for the smart splitters. Use trucks/trains to pick up multiple items and have the station outputs distribute them via smart splitters to in line storage; it will minimize the risk of backing up and plugging the splitters.
How many of you have used trains to transport goods yet? So far I have been running conveyors but I think Once I decide to extract resources from the other biomes I will go ahead and build a rail line.
Uses for the smart splitters. Use trucks/trains to pick up multiple items and have the station outputs distribute them via smart splitters to in line storage; it will minimize the risk of backing up and plugging the splitters.
I use trains to transport aluminum ingots, simply because there aren't a lot of bauxite nodes on the map and none of them are really anywhere near a starting area (except the western cliffs one, which is very high up)
Once I get my compacted coal setup going, one will also take compacted coal to my power plant. And probably bring back cloth from the leftover resin there so I can keep a supply of filters.
There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Super useful for keeping your refineries functioning without getting jammed when your byproducts back up. I find it very funny that at me and my buddy's aluminum plant we take water byproduct, bottle it, and then incinerate it... at a factory built overtop of a lake.
Now I've finally gotten all my iron production re-done. Everything up to modular sub frames is being generated with any overflow dumped into storage
Now I get to rip out my copper generation and get copper sheets producing with some amount of efficiency so I can get the copper rotors going. I keep forgetting about cable so I'll have to run a little wire to cable node to keep me topped up
Then I'll start on steel generation, like I originally was going to last week before I needed to add the additional coal plant
The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
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KwoaruConfident SmirkFlawless Golden PecsRegistered Userregular
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I could definitely improve it but for now I really like how my raw material intake area turned out
That looks really cool and I can only imagine is a nightmare to actually separate out to where it needs to go after.
If the belts were elevated downstream, I bet it wouldn't be too horrible. Weave that into a few vertically stacked rows and then run splitters off that.
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
So it turns out that the game does some sort of server check for your player name and if it's offline and can't do this check you get assigned a number and enter the game as a new player. It's very annoying.
That looks really cool and I can only imagine is a nightmare to actually separate out to where it needs to go after.
Its not toooo bad actually, below those glass foundations is a big space I have hidden behind a wall where I do the actual organzing
I just pull a vertical conveyer down to whatever floor in the factory needs it and then poke it out through the wall so for the most part it works out like a main bus oriented vertically
I'm sure eventually it won't be able to expand enough to meet my resource needs but for now the most inconvenient part is moving between floors and I'm gonna fix that with hyper tubes
That's odd, I should have overflow High-Speed Connectors.
*follows the machine belts*
Oh, I left one of the lifts at Mk1 instead of Mk2. Dangit.
-edit-
No, that's not it, I may have miscalculated something somewhere and I think I'm only making half as many as I need...
-double edit-
Thankfully, it wasn't a huge problem. I calculated the correct amount of raw resources, but only built two manufacturers instead of the needed four. One of the few circumstances where I am okay with using power shards to increase a machines production. (also power is no longer a real problem for me)
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The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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Today was mostly cleaning up my supercomputer production line to fix my gaffe with the High Speed Connectors, and then using the new items I am producing to unlock Nuclear Power, and the remaining stuff in the MAM. (and then the Mk3 wall power mounts in the shop)
Technically, I could go find a nice spot to build a nuclear production facility but honestly until they add a way to deal with nuclear waste easier, I think I will pass. I'll probably just upgrade my power plant to Turbofuel and go collect the rest of the hard drives for when the next update comes along.
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There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
You can sort of have the equivalent of a server by passing the game save back and forth. That’s what me and my buddy have been doing and it works surprisingly well. The game even remembers which character is yours, and offline character will still be in the world standing idle while offline (you can totally cover them in explosives and kill them and take their stuff if you wanted...)
So if you wanted multiplayer that wasn’t dependent on everyone being on at the same time:
- Add everyone as friends, if someone is already online and playing just join that game.
- If you’re hosting the world and want to log off then save, quit, and upload the save to a shared google drive or something.
- If you want to play and no one else is hosting already, just go grab the latest save from the google drive.
Sounds like you can do a simple edit to the ini to up the max player count too
Finally got refineries and manufacturers, so much stuff to organize now
Refinery recipes are the most efficient way to process a lot of resources, just keep in mind they are expensive to run in terms of power. So don't go too crazy with them at first.
There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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I had to break this one up a bit to make the best use of the space. Also Turbomotors are going to need a bunch of quickwire too so it was easier to make a discreet production line just for that. I'm kind of amazed I was able to keep the overall footprint this small actually. Manufacturers really throw off my ability to plan clean layouts somehow. They're so giant and need so many inputs.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I've also caved a little to efficiency setting up a row of industrial storage containers on my second level while the first level remains a horrific landscape of OSHA violations.
This time I've designed it with expansion in mind so instead of being restricted to the horizontal axis and having things next to each other I've gone for rows. With the splitters I can have two rows of constructors / smelters / assemblers from each input feed and then the output all links back to a central point where it's split off into storage containers or moves on to the next stage. I made three floors - iron ore comes in the bottom and then the "advanced parts" (reinforced plates / rotors / modular sub frames) come out the top
I probably could've left it how it was and move onto trying to get steel up and running and move up the tiers but I wanted to get some practice in on making things work nicely and be able to ramp up production without a big, sprawling mess. I've got something like 1500 screws per minute which is a big step up from where I was a couple of days ago -- starving my assemblers of materials whilst everything waited for parts and making one frame every 5 minutes
But I'm not going to. Next I need to re-work the copper / caterium so that's doing the same thing. Can't wait!
Am now a billionaire.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Nah. It’s not a competitive game, so “balance” isn’t really the same concern. Keeping production where it’s at helps respect players’ time and doesn’t push overnighting to be de facto mandatory.
Also, the important shop purchases are pretty easy to acquire. Mass tickets only matters if you’re trying to get statues. They could adjust the scaling for tickets once you’re in the hundreds, I suppose.
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Thats a little weird since the save is local.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Maybe i died, its been a couple days. I didnt see a corpse icon though. Ill have to run around a bit.
Origin ID: Discgolfer27
Untappd ID: Discgolfer1981
Try loading a slightly earlier save, if possible?
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
The first ore is free
Before long you'll be posting factory pics and talking about how you found a better way to route your screw production to account for a new alternate recipe and how it's so great that it cuts out an entire constructor step and this'll help you get your refineries going that much sooner and
Our original base hub is a mess of sprawling machinery and conveyor belts. Further away resource hubs have gotten a lot cleaner, but eventually everything leads back to the chaos factory
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
No one has to know
I'm gonna have to rip up and redo all of these beautiful production lines aren't I.
You get to rip up and redo all those beautiful production lines.
And then output them to storage containers for easy pickup.
And to serve as a source for combining different things into an inevitable additional tier of things.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Uses for the smart splitters. Use trucks/trains to pick up multiple items and have the station outputs distribute them via smart splitters to in line storage; it will minimize the risk of backing up and plugging the splitters.
I use trains to transport aluminum ingots, simply because there aren't a lot of bauxite nodes on the map and none of them are really anywhere near a starting area (except the western cliffs one, which is very high up)
Once I get my compacted coal setup going, one will also take compacted coal to my power plant. And probably bring back cloth from the leftover resin there so I can keep a supply of filters.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Speaking of overflow, I kind of expect them to add an official method to do it eventually, but until then this is a great setup for it: https://www.reddit.com/r/SatisfactoryGame/comments/f589r7/compact_overflow_solution/
Super useful for keeping your refineries functioning without getting jammed when your byproducts back up. I find it very funny that at me and my buddy's aluminum plant we take water byproduct, bottle it, and then incinerate it... at a factory built overtop of a lake.
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
...I want to rip my factory apart and rebuild it again
I feel like my need to fit production lines in as small a place as possible is stressing me out too much. Look at this chaos.
At least the surplus is good shredder fuel.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
If you're weak
Real factory makers just conveyor belt everything and hide it under a layer of concrete
Now I get to rip out my copper generation and get copper sheets producing with some amount of efficiency so I can get the copper rotors going. I keep forgetting about cable so I'll have to run a little wire to cable node to keep me topped up
Then I'll start on steel generation, like I originally was going to last week before I needed to add the additional coal plant
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
If the belts were elevated downstream, I bet it wouldn't be too horrible. Weave that into a few vertically stacked rows and then run splitters off that.
Origin ID: Discgolfer27
Untappd ID: Discgolfer1981
Its not toooo bad actually, below those glass foundations is a big space I have hidden behind a wall where I do the actual organzing
I just pull a vertical conveyer down to whatever floor in the factory needs it and then poke it out through the wall so for the most part it works out like a main bus oriented vertically
I'm sure eventually it won't be able to expand enough to meet my resource needs but for now the most inconvenient part is moving between floors and I'm gonna fix that with hyper tubes
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
That's odd, I should have overflow High-Speed Connectors.
*follows the machine belts*
Oh, I left one of the lifts at Mk1 instead of Mk2. Dangit.
-edit-
No, that's not it, I may have miscalculated something somewhere and I think I'm only making half as many as I need...
-double edit-
Thankfully, it wasn't a huge problem. I calculated the correct amount of raw resources, but only built two manufacturers instead of the needed four. One of the few circumstances where I am okay with using power shards to increase a machines production. (also power is no longer a real problem for me)
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
It's perfect
Technically, I could go find a nice spot to build a nuclear production facility but honestly until they add a way to deal with nuclear waste easier, I think I will pass. I'll probably just upgrade my power plant to Turbofuel and go collect the rest of the hard drives for when the next update comes along.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
So if you wanted multiplayer that wasn’t dependent on everyone being on at the same time:
- Add everyone as friends, if someone is already online and playing just join that game.
- If you’re hosting the world and want to log off then save, quit, and upload the save to a shared google drive or something.
- If you want to play and no one else is hosting already, just go grab the latest save from the google drive.
Sounds like you can do a simple edit to the ini to up the max player count too
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
Refinery recipes are the most efficient way to process a lot of resources, just keep in mind they are expensive to run in terms of power. So don't go too crazy with them at first.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.