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I don't mind placing a bunch of stuff manually. It's relaxing to me. Now laying out power poles on the other hand... I really wish wired foundations would be added that serve as power connections to any machines placed on them. The power pole situation is just busiwork that makes things ugly. There is no clever problem-solving being done, it's just a matter of plopping a hundred poles around the factory floor. And later slightly fewer poles.
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boxen posted:I'm not sure what I think about the blueprints thing. Sometimes setting up a factory is tedious, but I spent most of last night redoing the iron/steel production that was the first stuff I set up (it's not important, but it's right next to my main base so I had to look at the spaghetti mess ALL THE TIME...) Same. I don't think I've ever torn down a factory to move it and actually set it up the same way at the destination. I always find better ways to do things or better ways to lay things out. It seems like blueprints would stifle that for me, like locking in whatever blueprint I make as the best way to do whatever it is.
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Apr 20, 2021 17:41
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A Moose posted:its not a huge issue, but why can't we have splitters for elevators? Speaking of elevated splitting, it was a bitter disappointment to find out stacking splitters didn't merge them.
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Apr 22, 2021 22:36
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I bet if I figured it up, about one out of every four objects I've placed in my world has been devoted to making and transporting screws.
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Apr 26, 2021 01:05
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drunken officeparty posted:But I meant also at the limit of what my brain can handle. So many conveyor belts. It helps to remember that there are exactly zero stakes in this game. There is no fail state, no time limit, no way to waste resources, and death just means a hike back to your death crate (which never disappears outside the odd glitch). You don't have to figure out everything at once and there is no reason to optimize everything to perfection. Even the one real limit, space in which to build, is easily overcome if you build a platform above the terrain. Of course it is a damned crime that trains are locked until the late game. Whose terrible decision was that.
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GotLag posted:Once I need resources that aren't local to my starting base (iron, copper, limestone) I sort of flounder until I give up. I never know what kind of rates to shoot for, either. This is exactly why it is an astoundingly bad design decision to make trains such a late game technology and make them so resource intensive. There is no elegant way to get distant resources to your base early on. It's the goofy truck or belt spaghetti until 3/4 through the game.
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