Jesus this game needs to come with a warning label

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Closet thing to a time machine I've found. I boot the game and suddenly 6 hours have passed.

I've never played it. The game seems both utterly boring and the most enthralling thing imaginable. Maybe I should jump in this weekend.

>>387535310
Its one of the greatest games of all time thats for sure

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>>387535712
Enjoy, I've gave myself chronic headaches by playing this game through either playing it for idiotic amounts of time in one sitting or just being flat out confused trying to solve the many issues that come when you expand.

How much copper wire is enough and why is the answer always: never enough?

>>387535978
Better open Excel and figure it out.

>>387535536
sweet

I'll put it on next time I'm heading off to work

>>387535310
>not building a main bus system
Boy everything is easier when every product gets a central belt which splits off to feed all the factories which need said material. The production chains are going to be so complex in midgame you will lose your mind that way

>>387536123
>being a bus baby

>>387536276
Well I like to have overview about my production and being able to expand easily without having to rearrange everything when higher demand happens

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>>387536092

>>387536276
What are the alternatives to the main bus ?

Just a second let me show you a screenshot of my base when I decided to let down the main bus base and start experiment with a new thing that just went out of control

>>387535712
>Maybe I should jump in this weekend.
say goodbye to your weekend then

>>387535310
Warning: Could trigger autism in certain individuals

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>>387536476
>>387536276

Help me I don't know how to expand this shit anymore.

Wait until you get to the NEED 1000000X MORE IRON AND COPPER stage.

>>387535536
mods?

>>387536709
>roundabouts
reeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>>387536709
it's starting to look like a pcb or chip layout

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>>387537197
>AAI Programmable Vehicles by Earendel

>Makes vehicles act like RTS units. Control them using a remote control handset, or program them with circuit conditions and zones. Can be used for base enemy base assault, patrols, friendly base navigation, vehicle-based mining, and more advanced applications. Works with vanilla and modded vehicles. Visit the mod portal page for a full feature list or the forums for tutorials.

>>387537224
Too advanced for your Uneducated[/spoiler] Shitty Airhead?
They are perfect for last second change of course and to prevent tracks being clogged up and can make trains return to nearest station to free up rails.

>>387537375
We starcraft now

>>387537375
>>387537461
We micro macro now!
Thanks

>>387537461
>>387537553
I've only played with them for a bit. I'm not sure if they're worth the effort of automating unless you're either a circuit network god or you copy someone else's build. I might just be a brainlet.

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>Expand your base slowly
>Take a few shortcuts to save time
>Several expansions and additions later it all devolves into a mess and you need to move half the factory to give yourself space and clean it up

>>387535310
I spent like 6 hours playing all the way until I reached automobilism.
I got disheartened because my base was a fucking mess, and it would take me an eternity to fix everything and organize it properly to start producing blue science, and the green science production is another fucking mess, ALSO I can't seem to find a ratio where I mine as much as I use of ores/coal.
I give up.

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>>387535310
mfw i refunded the game because i'm too stupid to construct an efficient base

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>Never use trains
>Just use conveyor belts everywhere

I-I'm not the only one, right? I prefer a steady, free, uninterrupted flow of goods instead of buffering and caching huge trainloads.

>>387535310
>>387535310

Played it for weeks non-stop just getting enough sleep to go to work and nothing else.

Plus obsessing over efficient and layout.

I don't want to come back to this yet.

Thought it was just hype. Fucking crack.

>>387538824

But that's the fun part anon. Realizing your inefficiency, learning from and building a better setup.

>>387538824
>ALSO I can't seem to find a ratio where I mine as much as I use of ores/coal.
Why would you need that? Why do people have this mysterious misconception that they only need to produce exactly as much as they require? Not only is that virtually impossible to do, but it's inefficient as fuck.

>>387539232
But trains are

A E S T H E T I C

>>387539546
>Anon has been run over by a train.

>>387539546
Trains cost coal to operate. Transport belts cost nothing once constructed. If transport belts took energy to run, I might consider using trains.

>>387539512
Having all your belts clogged is a sign you're only wasting space, and not making use of the resources.

>>387539821
>wasting space
Empty belts take exactly as much space, what are you talking about?
>not making use of the resources
No, it means you are production is at 100% capacity, which is good. Who cares if there's 500 iron plates sitting idle on a belt somewhere, when their only purpose is to feed factories.

So you better star making some sense my man.

What is this game? It looks breddy good.

>>387540150
Factorio.
There's a demo on factorio.com

>>387540150
resource management: turbo extreme: autism edition

>>387540150
Building a factory in order to research technology with the eventual goal of launching a rocket. You gather raw resources and transform them via smelting and crafting into usable components. Also there are sometimes aliens that slightly annoy you unless you play on a deathworld.

>>387539802

It's okay to go belts but the game gets sluggish the more belts you plop down. Bots are more efficient but you'll have to tear down your base again to accommodate them.

>>387540116
I just like it when my belts aren't clogged man, and everything is operating cleanly.

>>387535536
>>387535310
I had this issue too. When I first played it, I played for 11 hours straight without getting up. Haven't touched it since.

>>387540375
That still makes absolutely no sense.

>>387540361
How do the game scale on cores?
I have hundreds of thousands of belts on my main map and it's not slow.
I5 4690K

>>387540437
I'm autistic.
Are you happy now?

>>387540504
What kind of autism drives you to be less efficient at something? Do you just like to look at materials moving on the belt and when they are standing still because the belt is full you think they are somehow being used less?

>>387540590
Yes.

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>>387540375
Clogged belts, as in full of resources for me is a good thing, works like a phase, a buff of some sort.
Perfect for when you need a constant flow.
Though I also putt boxes at the end with stack inserters so when the machinery can't keep up, the belt continues to move and fill up that buff.

Depending on the flow, I change the way it buffers the belt.
Though I use stack inserters and logic chests so robos can pick from them if needed.

>>387540442
Game still isn't coded for multi-cores but the devs optimized the game too well that you'll only notice the drop when you're at megabase levels or planning to launch a certain number of rockets per second.

With your spec you'll unlikely see drops unless you go full autist and go 10 rockets per second.

>>387537375

>no Angels
>no Bobs

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>>387541656
I did 20 rockets at the same time by making a timed split on a belt so that the silos got their last part at the same time.
Damn was ear raping, but I loved it.
Checked old save from 0.12 and sadly there's like 200k entities that are now useless since my mods were outdated and not working anymore. At least my lil iron/copper place worked thanks to using local electricity.

>>387542006
Never touched em. I've been considering it. However, the new semester starts in a week.

>>387542224
Don't play angel's without bob's, they come together and die together

>>387542098
That is an interesting loading station. How many bots in that network?

>>387542304
I have to load up to check.

>>387542224
>>387542274
Also don't play angel's without warehouse and loader's mod. You can get a separate warehouse mod or use one of the angel ones. If you choose the latter I suggest picking up this mod
https://mods.factorio.com/mods/KorGgenT/WarehouseAddons
because vanilla angel's warehouse mod doesn't have tiers and they generally don't hold a lot of items

Also never, fucking NEVER install AAI industry

>>387542098

>when an attack or something else shuts down the power grid to your enormous factory
>way over in the furthest corner of the factory, I'm the stillness of dead machinery and circuitry, there's a small area where everything is still running because they aren't on the central power grid/ run off solar/ etc
>those loaders and furnaces and built are proceeding as usual, unaware that outside their little bubble everything has come to a screeching halt and the world may be over

That corner is comfy as fuck

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>>387542006
Angels+Bob's is one hell of a drug

>>387539232
I understand you, so i force myself into using trains by increasing region size in RSO. That way the patches are so fucking far you HAVE to use trains because spending 1 hour making belt road to your base is too much even for my autism.

>>387539232
It's okay anon, I was the same way until I learned how chain signals worked.

>>387542709
>almost 70 hours into that factory

jesus fuck man

>>387542709
I'm surprised you're still at 60. Your base doesn't seem that megabig, but it's big enough for ups to tank. Also why there are so few biter bases?

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>>387543185
Peaceful mode. I didn't want to have to deal with any biters when I had no idea what the fuck I was doing figuring out how the most basic shit worked. If I ever do another angel+bob run, I'll play with biters on.

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>>387542304
I can't connect every one in one grid since the power runs out and thus puts everything to 0.
This is before the power plant update so none of my steam machines work.
>>387542606
I have multiple independent factories.
I love using the power switch to group factories and then have one big station that just works as a switch station.
I got that "fetish" from the first Jurassic park movie when they restart the whole park with those big sexy switches.

>>387543185

>Why so few biter bases

After I get tanks, I spend 90% of my time driving around and killing bases. I only stop back into my factory to refuel and reload, maybe add a couple necessary upgrades, then I head back out. When I can no longer just plow through a biter base with the tank and crush everything, that's when the game gets really interesting.

>>387543537
I would still expect them to resettle

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>Buffer chests
muh dick

>>387535712
There's a demo on the official website.

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>Play game
>Have fun
>Suddenly get to the part where you need to drill oil
>Fun goes down the drain

REEEEEEEEfineries suck

>>387544081
>vanilla oil
>hard
lol

>>387539821
That is wrong. Not having clogged up belts slows your factory down.

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First map I started on from the 0.11-0.12 days, not that big but it was a testing ground for stuff and.
>>387544045
Oh mama!

>>387544081
Refineries aren't nearly as bad since they made all fluids able to be put into barrels. I've on;y ever had an issue piping lube around the place, barreling it made it so much easier for me.

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pew pew

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>>387544313
How do barrels work?

>>387539802
Are you serious? Fuel costs of trains are virtually zero.
You can feed them rocket fuel all fucking day.

>>387540590
autism isn't always functional, anon

>>387540442
Not very well. Devs said that multi-core systems don't have huge benefits.


It was practically tested that RAM speed can give you huge increase in UPS.

>>387544508
You build empty barrels out of steel, then put them in assembly machines 2 or 3 with whatever fluid you want in the barrel, it then crafts a barrel of that fluid.

At the other end, you put full barrels into assembly machines and it produces empty barrels and the fluid inside.

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>>387544730
I do have 24GB DDR3 2400MHz so I think speed is sufficient.

>>387540442
>>387544730
At the moment, Factorio doesn't ever use more than 1 core.
The devs have stated multiple times that they are working on multi-threading to make full use of multi-core CPUs, but that that's a long ways off yet.

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>>387545080
Ah ok.
Well I don't have any performance problems yet.

As seen here >>387544424 constant 60FPS even with this custom map that is designed to test the new power stations with thousands of spawners stimulating the laser turrets.

>>387545259
I miss old rails.

They looked so much better.

>>387545080

The game is optimized to the point that even toasters can still run at megabase levels.

>>387545482
No
The game optimization is good, but not on that level

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what is this game even about?
do I have to be autistic to understand?
cause I do

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I fucking love this game
R8 muh factory

>>387546036
>crash land on planet
>have severe autism
>want to leave planet
>build a massive factory to automate the production of spacecraft so that you might leave, starting with industrial-era technology

>>387546036
You set up machines to craft things for you.
You move resources using belts and trains and pipes and robots to make sure machines are never hungry and always working.
That's it, that's 90% of this game.

Sometimes you commit small genocide on natives, but that's optional.

>>387546328
>bending your bus
>not just filling up the water

shiggy

>>387542526
What's wrong with AAI Industry?

>>387546328
bus bitch

>>387547328
I bent the bus so I can circle around my science center

>>387545080
No, they've said that it's doubtful it will ever even give any performance benefit and will require insane amounts of work and bugtesting. It's never coming. Stop buying AMD CPUs for gaming

>start
>see the appeal but it feels horribly clunky, gets boring fast

how casual am I

>>387549242
>Stop buying AMD CPUs for gaming
Nice projecting.

Also, Rseding has said many times on ColonelWill's stream that they are working on and do intend to eventually implement multi-threading into the game.

>>387535536
Tell me about it, I played it for a solid 14 hours or so one day this summer and ended up with slight amnesia from that period and the most horrifying 'factorio' problem solving dream featuring belts

>>387549252
Love their commitment to improving this game. I realize that it is still early access, yet there is more than a full game already finished.

>>387549252
they have done a really good job at making the game look bleak and industrial

>>387536476
Try lazy trains. You load them up with whatever you want, send them to each station, which unloads raw materials and loads completed ones. You'll have enough trains to prevent saturation usually, though if you get too much shit loading in at once, you might need to adjust a limit to how much stuff can be loaded per stop.

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>>387542709
>load up bob's one day
>oh hey this wood industry thing is pretty rad I could get into this
>would be easier with a smart inserter though
>looks like it needs the next level circuit though
>well the first level was pretty fun what's it gonna take
>five different ores, eleven smelting or equivalent smelting processes, fifteen crafted intermediate products, three special crafting machines, multiple levels of research and at least one new prime number calculated
I'm sure it's all super rewarding for people who like it but I simply lack the required autism level