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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Factorio: Captain Planet doesn't stand a chance.
 
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Rapner
May 7, 2013


 This train mission really needs to have the gather amounts lowered. They're out by like a factor of 10.

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 16:48
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Rapner
May 7, 2013


 Are there any good guides to how to set up the big gorgeous bus driven factories that I see posted here?

I'm trying to decipher them from the screenshots but you can only zoom in so far before everything becomes a blob.

* # ¿ May 21, 2014 14:29
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Rapner
May 7, 2013

Hagop posted:

Do my zoomed in screen shots from

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3629545&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=11#post429838812

help?


The basic principle is mats move left to right in a tight main buss of belts. When you want to make something new you spit the mats belts you need for it and have the new branches move perpendicular to the main bus until you get above or below the main bus. The belts your branch cross get sent underground. Then you pull mats off this branch below or above the main bus and process them and add the result to the main bus in a new belt.

*edit: if you use the one belt per mat and one lain left empty for merging like I do. It helps if you make sure that the lain that has the mat is always the same one, and that it is the side that your processing will happen on.

So all my main bus travels left to right and has the mats on the bottom of each belt. So all my processing is done below the main bus.

This plus the picture on page 3 were super helpful. Thanks!

* # ¿ May 21, 2014 23:27
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Rapner
May 7, 2013

Is there a prettier way to put items on the close side of the belt?

(Also you can see the results of babby's first bus, thanks guys!)

* # ¿ May 22, 2014 04:41
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Rapner
May 7, 2013

Sarrisan posted:

I should have known explosives were the answer.

Explosives are always the answer. Unless the answer is bots.

* # ¿ May 26, 2014 04:45
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Rapner
May 7, 2013


 I'm just now getting into loving about with oil, but I'm finding the enemies in sandbox mode to be SUPER easy. I'm playing full black.

If I restart with more aggressive/plentiful enemies am I going to regret it later? I prefer a Dwarf Fortressy kind of challenge.

* # ¿ May 27, 2014 10:21
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Rapner
May 7, 2013

Hagop posted:

Their is a mod the fixes this called upgrade.

Are you sure that's the right name? I can't find it anywhere.

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Rapner
May 7, 2013


 gently caress that.

Rule of thumb: Chop down all the trees and mine all the coal to FEED THE FORGES.

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