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Ambaire posted:So I was rearranging my new solar accumulators for better solar panel density, and realized that removing fully charged accumulators literally gives a fully charged accumulator. No charge vanishing into the ether like in Factorio. Love this game.
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Deadmeat5150 posted:Im now building a secondary factory in my second system and may have forgotten to bring warp fuel with me . Your travel speed is not accurate, someone on the steam forum reported that I took them about an hour to travel between the stars at sub light speeds. Start back for your home star, then come back in an hour.
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Fusion power! I really should have started fractionating earlier. Two oil seeps > 8 refineries > hydrogen into 18 fractionators > deuterium fuel rods into 20 mini fusion reactors. I think this setup can likely support 30 reactors but I just set them up so we will see once I have a surplus of fuel rods built up. Sunrise at the factory. 
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Jan 26, 2021 07:52
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 Incredible game so far. I have way more research unlocked than I know what to do with, going to get into oil production next and try to get some of the red cubes.
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Jan 26, 2021 09:22
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Diogines posted:Your travel speed is not accurate, someone on the steam forum reported that I took them about an hour to travel between the stars at sub light speeds. Start back for your home star, then come back in an hour. speeds are "accurate" to meters, it's the scale of everything that's all wrong. planets are tiny, 1AU appears to be exactly 40km (as opposed to ~150 million km), and i haven't measured out 1LY, but it definitely isn't ~10 trillion km 
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Jan 26, 2021 09:26
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Coolnezzz posted:Fusion power! I really should have started fractionating earlier. Two oil seeps > 8 refineries > hydrogen into 18 fractionators > deuterium fuel rods into 20 mini fusion reactors. I think this setup can likely support 30 reactors but I just set them up so we will see once I have a surplus of fuel rods built up. Don't forget to use the fastest belts you have there. The machines don't need any time to spit out either a Hydrogen or Deuterium, so using a faster belt makes them work faster.
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Jan 26, 2021 09:40
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Krataar posted:I found a mushroom planet loaded with organic crystals and a water world. My factory is a huge mess and I want to start over, but I've gone to far now. One of the nice things is that you can basically bundle up a planet into a bunch of interstellar logistics nodes and then never bother with it again if you want to. Just maybe hook up some interstellar inputs of raw ores to your smelting lines. It just sits in the background and contributes productive capacity.
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Jan 26, 2021 10:50
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 Looking tidy atm, I wonder how long that will last? (not long, likely) I love the ability to stack my belts but I'm really missing factorio-style splitters, even level 3 sorters a little slow. I'll probably demolish all of this once I get robots, oh well. edit: i just realized, if this game gets big enough and is moddable enough, someone is eventually going to release a "real solar system sizes" mod and it's going to be glorious. Sarrisan fucked around with this message at 11:14 on Jan 26, 2021 |
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Jan 26, 2021 11:00
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Finally got my little swarm going without leaving my first planet. I guess I need to now for titanium but I'm scared. Which tech level of logistics do I need for inter-planetary cargo? There is intraplanetary and interstellar... Also how do I actually navigate in sail mode, has anyone made a guide or something I'm so scared of flinging myself into the void that I haven't really played with the controls yet.
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Jan 26, 2021 11:12
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Welp, got this 3 days ago and basically each day started over to refine my build style. I'm astounded how feature complete this game is and how few bugs there are. Just finished a yellow cube chain and I feel like it's about to get a whole more messy.
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Jan 26, 2021 11:15
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LeFishy posted:Finally got my little swarm going without leaving my first planet. I guess I need to now for titanium but I'm scared. Just hold space bar until you get out of the atmosphere - you'll stop using power and be moving at 100ms in whatever direction you're pointing at. Just point at a planet and wait - you can speed up at the cost of power (Don't worry about braking, you can slam right into a planet and be perfectly safe, or "glide" into orbit and your guy will brake automatically). Also when in space you regen power naturally so you can never be truly stuck, you just have to wait until you have enough power to turn around and make another pass if you miss a planet somehow.
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LeFishy posted:Finally got my little swarm going without leaving my first planet. I guess I need to now for titanium but I'm scared. Interstellar and interplanetary are the same thing, you upgrade them to interstellar with a later research, but the interstellar hub is what you need for between planets.
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Sarrisan posted:Just hold space bar until you get out of the atmosphere - you'll stop using power and be moving at 100ms in whatever direction you're pointing at. Just point at a planet and wait - you can speed up at the cost of power (Don't worry about braking, you can slam right into a planet and be perfectly safe, or "glide" into orbit and your guy will brake automatically). note that accelerating in space burns through power way faster than you'd expect so get a reactor upgrade or two before going offworld, and bring a few stacks of coal or graphite or whatever so you don't get lost in space. once you're in space, just point yourself at the planet and hit W and wait a bit. if your home planet is a gas giant moon, save before launch so you can reload and wait a bit if the gas giant is in the way.
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Jan 26, 2021 11:55
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Is there an easy way to upgrade belts? I can't drag a long line of tier 2 belts over my old ones but I can do drag it one piece at a time and its kind of a chore. Same for sorters and assemblers.
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Demiurge4 posted:Is there an easy way to upgrade belts? I can't drag a long line of tier 2 belts over my old ones but I can do drag it one piece at a time and its kind of a chore. Same for sorters and assemblers. Nope. Other than deleting and replacing, there's no other way yet.
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Jan 26, 2021 12:07
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I think I found a tidally locked planet, that's neat.
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Deadmeat5150 posted:Nope. Other than deleting and replacing, there's no other way yet. 
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Wait no it's not quite tidally locked, "orbital resonance 1:4 I think means it basically rotates a quarter as fast as it orbits? Either way really long days/nights.
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Did anyone manage to find a black hole or neutron star yet? Is there anything interesting there?
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Jan 26, 2021 12:59
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There is one in each cluster I think. Neutron star is just a really small star, nothing special. Haven't been to the black hole yet. I think they might be unfinished content basically.
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Restarted because I sat there at work and re-thought a lot of my designs and didn't feel like digging myself out of a hole with the power issue. First thoughts: good lord, it's easy to not notice how powerful the upgrades like movement speed and construction drone quantity and speed are when you get them in game but they're immediately apparent in a new game. The robot is SLOOOOW. Also tried a few seeds. It seems to always put you on a moon of a gas giant for your first starter planet. Though I did get one where the gas planet had a second moon on it. Currently got an ice giant and one of those "1/4 phase" planets that OwlFancier mentioned. Noticed in the start map it says "can't change starting location" which suggests that's likely gonna be a feature down the road.
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Alkydere posted:First thoughts: good lord, it's easy to not notice how powerful the upgrades like movement speed and construction drone quantity and speed are when you get them in game but they're immediately apparent in a new game. The robot is SLOOOOW. there's upgrades for a bunch of stuff next to research tab. I wonder how much your mech speed improves with them though, haven't done but a few upgrades so far.
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Is two moons rare? I started orbiting an ice planet that had a second desert moon with high winds and titanium
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LifeSunDeath posted:there's upgrades for a bunch of stuff next to research tab. I wonder how much your mech speed improves with them though, haven't done but a few upgrades so far. A lot. This is just such a great feeling to watch. Fly, my pretty research, fly! 
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Deadmeat5150 posted:A lot. Ooooooo pretty!
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LifeSunDeath posted:there's upgrades for a bunch of stuff next to research tab. I wonder how much your mech speed improves with them though, haven't done but a few upgrades so far. Did you not read the entire post? I'm re-starting, I know about the upgrades XD I'm saying you barely notice most of them at the time but when you strip them all away at once it stings a bit.
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Jan 26, 2021 14:24
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Alkydere posted:Did you not read the entire post? not really, why?
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LifeSunDeath posted:not really, why? Because the first sentence was about restarting, and realizing that with upgrades don't it always seems to go you don't know what you've got til it's gone they paved paradise and put up an EM gun.
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Deadmeat5150 posted:A lot. So hang on Do you need to link up all those research stations with belts, or is it enough to link it up with the bottom one?
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bony tony posted:So hang on Just the bottom. Same for stacked storages. Only stacked splitters require seperate belts which makes sense.
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LeFishy posted:Also how do I actually navigate in sail mode, has anyone made a guide or something I'm so scared of flinging myself into the void that I haven't really played with the controls yet. Always save before flinging yourself into the ether. Then save again when you return home again. That one time when the gravitational pull slingshotted me to the middle of nowhere was not fun because I couldn't turn at all.
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bony tony posted:So hang on Stacked research labs do whatever the bottom is doing
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Flinging myself into another star system without warp fuel actually worked out great in the long run. However I've noticed that I can't move said warp fuel back and forth by itself. So it may be better to ship lenses or green cubes and turn them into warp fuel on the opposite side. I got lucky in my third system and found the crystal I can turn in nanotubes!
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I will add with the stacked research though: you'll want to beef up your sorters, basic ones can't handle the bigger stacks.
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I wish all the buildings were stackable tbh, it's a great solution to the issue of having to upgrade production capacity over time. Would be even better if you had the option of feeding/extracting from any of them.
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OwlFancier posted:I wish all the buildings were stackable tbh, it's a great solution to the issue of having to upgrade production capacity over time. Yes, or just having a second set of sorter attachment points at the top of the assemblers would be really nice. Maybe as a mk2 feature. Would make it a lot easier to build a mall, there's so many intermediate products involved in so many different combinations.
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Philthy posted:Always save before flinging yourself into the ether. Then save again when you return home again. I'm glad I'm not the only one who had this happen. Luckily I only wasted 5 minutes of gaming time.
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First game status: No iron ore on starting planet.
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MrYenko posted:First game status: No iron ore on starting planet. Is that even possible? I restarted because I was just overwhelmed with how quickly I unlocked stuff and I had a hell of a time finding copper on my new planet, but it was there! If you press M you can scroll around the planet and take a closer look.
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