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As someone who computers for a living, I'm qualified to say you never get less bad at computer. You just get used to being bad at computer.
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Feb 22, 2020 03:52
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necrotic posted:Pave the world and build on that, tracks snap to foundations. Build a pillar for track to rest on. Build 12 foundations out from that pillar in the direction you want to go. Remove the 11 middle ones, and finish the remaining to become a pillar. Build track between middles of the two pillars.
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Feb 22, 2020 10:31
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Build the track to the natural grade of the land and enjoy the gentle sweeping curves as you pass by.
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Feb 22, 2020 18:05
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KillHour posted:Build the track to the natural grade of the land and enjoy the gentle sweeping curves as you pass by. Though if you want to make a straight bridge over a gap, the foundation trick is pretty good advice. Swoopy curvy bridges don't feel great.
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Feb 22, 2020 19:37
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Eiba posted:This. Always be working with the terrain. That's what makes this stuff interesting. Look at this nerd who doesn’t need train tunnels. Whoa poo poo can I fit a train underground!?
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Is there a version of this calculator that's set for the experimental version? Or do I have to wait until this poo poo becomes canon
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Feb 23, 2020 02:49
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Evilreaver posted:Is there a version of this calculator that's set for the experimental version? Or do I have to wait until this poo poo becomes canon People are still working on it, the fluid mechanics and changed recipes are probably a lot of extra work. Greeny at least has an item browser up so you can see all the alternate recipes and stuff. https://update3.satisfactory.greeny.dev/
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Feb 23, 2020 04:02
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Tenebrais posted:So I made it to the top of the peak in the middle of the continent. Is the crash site there supposed to be empty? That was a bit diappointing. Same thing happened to me. It was pretty disappointing.
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Feb 23, 2020 04:46
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Decided to start fresh on an alternate map. Chose Rocky Desert. Didn't realize i was going to be inundated with the most powerful vaporwave aesthetic the game could throw at me. I love it. Been putting on lofi retrowave like Com Truise and just slowly building away....
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Feb 23, 2020 04:47
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So it's been like a year, how did this shake out?
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Feb 23, 2020 05:49
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Agent355 posted:So it's been like a year, how did this shake out? Game's good. When it releases on Steam, I intend to rebuy it there to support the devs.
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Feb 23, 2020 06:00
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The rocky desert is still my favorite start. But I feel like this dune desert is going to carry me through experimental and stable until the production release. All of you talking about following the land are missing out on the most beautiful part of Totally unrelated, I am also most looking forward to a flood fill click-drag option for foundations and walls.
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Feb 23, 2020 06:01
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Ambaire posted:Game's good. When it releases on Steam, I intend to rebuy it there to support the devs. I've got a friend that I want to start a new map with, so I've been watching the steam availability like a hawk. Unfortunately, they said it probably won't be in February or March.
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Feb 23, 2020 06:05
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Have they added a way to mass build foundations yet? Haven't figured it out if so. Also, are there enough hard drives to research all alternate recipes? Ambaire fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Feb 23, 2020 |
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Feb 23, 2020 06:46
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Ambaire posted:Have they added a way to mass build foundations yet? Haven't figured it out if so. M_Gargantua posted:The rocky desert is still my favorite start. But I feel like this dune desert is going to carry me through experimental and stable until the production release. Honestly I feel like the "big box in the sky" approach is just running away from the challenges the game represents. I prefer my concrete creep to follow the contours of the land, and have the hills and cliffs provide some natural boundaries to work around. Tenebrais fucked around with this message at 11:24 on Feb 23, 2020 |
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Feb 23, 2020 11:03
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Evilreaver posted:Is there a version of this calculator that's set for the experimental version? Or do I have to wait until this poo poo becomes canon Best I could find https://legorin.github.io/satisfactory-calculator/calc.html#items=supercomputer:f:1
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Feb 23, 2020 13:29
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Tenebrais posted:No and yes. Oh the concrete creap does follow the land 
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Feb 23, 2020 15:43
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Talkc posted:Decided to start fresh on an alternate map. Chose Rocky Desert. Didn't realize i was going to be inundated with the most powerful vaporwave aesthetic the game could throw at me. I picked it too and it's so pretty. I also love the sort of central location because the last time I played was the grasslands and you had to walk like 3km for the oil.
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Feb 23, 2020 17:02
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Sultan Tarquin posted:I picked it too and it's so pretty. I also love the sort of central location because the last time I played was the grasslands and you had to walk like 3km for the oil. Based on what I’ve seen so far, it’s not that the location itself is more central to the map, it’s that there is a really wide variety of recourses within a kilometer of, well, the specific spot where I landed. And lots of breakable rocks of quartz, caterium, and sulfur as well, allowing the player to unlock and live down those trees a lot more quickly than I did in previous starts. I was mass-producing quickwire, polished quartz, and gunpowder before I had even unlocked the tier with the oil production unlock in it.
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Feb 23, 2020 18:26
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Agent355 posted:So it's been like a year, how did this shake out? It's fine but the first version was about six months too early. Not a problem if you are buying on steam which is sounding like late spring or summer.
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Feb 23, 2020 18:39
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I'll consider it ready for release once it has a blueprint or copy paste built in. Too much time is spent repeating the same few clicks for any sort of mass production.
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Feb 23, 2020 18:48
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socialsecurity posted:I'll consider it ready for release once it has a blueprint or copy paste built in. Too much time is spent repeating the same few clicks for any sort of mass production. The mod "area actions" has this.
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Feb 23, 2020 18:53
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Volmarias posted:I have to say I'm appreciating the aliens mechanic in factorio more after playing this, along with deposit limits, as they both act as forces to require you to explore and expand. The new deposits are needed to feed your hungry machine, and the aliens attacking with escalating force to delete your respected gives you a reason in the mid game to not just dither in your base. I'm honestly hoping that there's something similar to that to encourage the player to not just sit around banging iron rocks and leveling up that way. What are you talking about, Satisfactory implores you to explore for several reasons. The power slugs, the crashed ships for hard drives, and most good resource nodes are spread out from one another at higher tiers--oil is rarely right next to coal or sulfer, for example. Yes, the resource nodes don't dry up here, but higher-tier stuff always requires MORE, plus power is always at a premium, so expansion of the network is still necessary. Not to mention, how drat intricate and easy to get lost in is this map. In other news: they're totally cosmetic but I love columns in the ticket store. I tend to pave over tall areas with huge platforms and sticking a column in there helps my subconscious get over the fact that it should be impossible.
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Feb 23, 2020 19:18
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30-something hours in and looking at what exactly I need to produce for the third space elevator phase and holy gently caress I must not be building enough factory because it’d take me something stupid like 10 hours to build all that.
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Feb 23, 2020 22:58
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GruntyThrst posted:30-something hours in and looking at what exactly I need to produce for the third space elevator phase and holy gently caress I must not be building enough factory because it’d take me something stupid like 10 hours to build all that. Given the third space elevator stage is the end of Early Access, 10 hours is something to savour! (There is a tier 7 afterwards, but no goal to work towards besides racking up vouchers. Though even that is better than before) Seriously though, aside from the fact it's going to take you a few hours to get the plastics line going, the whole idea is to keep expanding and producing more.
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Feb 24, 2020 00:18
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There is definitely a conflict between "I could spend an hour building up more factory and then another hour waiting for it to make the parts I need" and "I can just spend an hour with a stapler on my spacebar and get to the next tier faster"
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Feb 24, 2020 00:50
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I think with update three it would easily be faster to make the factory larger. Hand crafting is quite a bit slower and you need an assembler to craft the tier bits now. Take the wait tine to go hunt hard drives, them you'll have better recipes and the tier will be done.
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Feb 24, 2020 02:15
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Cojawfee posted:There is definitely a conflict between "I could spend an hour building up more factory and then another hour waiting for it to make the parts I need" and "I can just spend an hour with a stapler on my spacebar and get to the next tier faster" Thing is that if you go with the first option, that increased capacity is there for the rest of the game, ideally feeding into a storage can until that fills up and the whole line goes idle. Next time you need wodgets or squickydoos you can just grab six stacks and that empty space will probably be refilled by products on belts and in output hoppers within minutes. I definitely do pick something I can handcraft quite a few of and leave a rock on my spacebar if I'm going to go do something else, but once I've slipped the surly bonds of biomass power and my factory starts really expanding in size, it's definitely going to produce a lot more of X than I will on the crafting bench in the same time period, unless my supply chain for X is a can-fed initial underbuild or has a serious problem somewhere in its dependencies. Basically, build more factory in the factory-building game. I promise it's worth it.
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Feb 24, 2020 04:28
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As I look up at my three story solid biofuel storage I wonder maybe they should make trees worth more wood. When you can clear cut huge sections of the plains or forest with the chainsaw and just scrap by while some idiot can go pull scrub in the desert with his hands and have more than they'll ever need.
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Feb 24, 2020 04:55
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LonsomeSon posted:Thing is that if you go with the first option, that increased capacity is there for the rest of the game, ideally feeding into a storage can until that fills up and the whole line goes idle. Next time you need wodgets or squickydoos you can just grab six stacks and that empty space will probably be refilled by products on belts and in output hoppers within minutes. I just don't like making unnecessary things when I just want to make my factory the way I want to make it. Now that I have smart splitters again, I can do that. Smart splitters don't work exactly the way I wish they did, but they are a lot more useful than they were the first time I played this game. There's no way to only send the filtered item out the specific exit and then overflow when it is blocked, but you can just set one exit to anything and it will just alternate between them. This is good enough for my generic factory. I send my materials out onto the belt and each machine grabs what it needs and the rest keeps on flowing. The only part where this is a problem is my automatic sorting belts. My only option is to set the exits on the smart splitters to any, and then it splits the outputs and it takes exponentially longer for everything to eventually filter into its storage, or set the exit to any unfiltered, which will block if a storage container gets full. In any case, this at least lets me continue building the factory I want to build. Also, I didn't realize that you can just drop an item on the ground. So now I label all my storage containers by dropping one of the item it stores on top for easy reference.
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Feb 24, 2020 08:06
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Unhappy Meal posted:As I look up at my three story solid biofuel storage I wonder maybe they should make trees worth more wood. When you can clear cut huge sections of the plains or forest with the chainsaw and just scrap by while some idiot can go pull scrub in the desert with his hands and have more than they'll ever need. I hope they eventually let us do treefarms and replant trees/bushes/etc in the wild. Why yes, I want bobs+angels (and maybe a seablock equivalent) in Satisfactory.
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Feb 24, 2020 08:28
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Cojawfee posted:I just don't like making unnecessary things when I just want to make my factory the way I want to make it. Now that I have smart splitters again, I can do that. Smart splitters don't work exactly the way I wish they did, but they are a lot more useful than they were the first time I played this game. There's no way to only send the filtered item out the specific exit and then overflow when it is blocked, but you can just set one exit to anything and it will just alternate between them. This is good enough for my generic factory. I send my materials out onto the belt and each machine grabs what it needs and the rest keeps on flowing. The only part where this is a problem is my automatic sorting belts. My only option is to set the exits on the smart splitters to any, and then it splits the outputs and it takes exponentially longer for everything to eventually filter into its storage, or set the exit to any unfiltered, which will block if a storage container gets full. In any case, this at least lets me continue building the factory I want to build. I've always done this by running the smallest piece of belt out of the container, but I think that with all the new cosmetic items there must be a nicer way of doing things now
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Feb 24, 2020 08:45
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I'm just checking here to be sure, but I'm right in thinking there's no way in the game right now to automatically put down conveyer belts with the stackable conveyer pole attached to it right? It seems like a very simple quality of life issue that I wish they would implement. Also, give us conveyer poles that attach to ceilings.
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Feb 24, 2020 12:11
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kanonvandekempen posted:I'm just checking here to be sure, but I'm right in thinking there's no way in the game right now to automatically put down conveyer belts with the stackable conveyer pole attached to it right? It seems like a very simple quality of life issue that I wish they would implement. Also, give us conveyer poles that attach to ceilings. No, though I'm not sure when you'd want a stackable pole without caring enough about where it is to place it first? I do wish stackable poles would snap to regular poles though. Also that stackable conveyor poles and stackable pipe supports could be mixed, they have the same dimensions...
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Feb 24, 2020 12:24
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Tenebrais posted:No, though I'm not sure when you'd want a stackable pole without caring enough about where it is to place it first? If I wsnt to make a run of conveyor belts across the landscape, I have to start placing a conveyor belt, see where the max length is, then stop placing the belt, then place a stackable pole in approximately the right spot, then snipe the distant pole and drag a belt to the new one.
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Feb 24, 2020 12:53
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Liquid Biofuel is an awful lot of effort. I've been deforesting a few regions and figured might as well put it to use, right? Needs two refineries, three constructors, one water extractor, and 3 plastic per container. 132W of power and a decent amount of plastic to make this poo poo.
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Vasudus posted:Liquid Biofuel is an awful lot of effort. I've been deforesting a few regions and figured might as well put it to use, right? Yeah, I got to liquid Biofuel and looked at it for a second, and then looked at coal power which I started 2 tiers ago, and was very very confused. The wiki says the biomass burner can use it so maaaaybe there's an extremely niche use for setting up a temporary base with as few inventory slots needed as possible? Started painting stuff to help me identify my production lines last night and until they offer a way to generate flower petals I think the cartridges need to be waaay bigger or removed. Like, if you want to make me build a production line for color cartridges I'm totally fine with that but it can't be automated at the moment which is no good. Also please for the love of god make the guns reload with a click instead of needing the press the R key 
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Feb 24, 2020 15:42
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I don’t know, I haven’t used it yet. I’m going to use it for my truck when I’m farting around inside my base. For the effort it had better match regular fuel at least I hope. I guess the appeal is it’s a fuel source made outside your oil chain. I had a stack of 85 batteries I got super early on from crash sites and I’m finally down to my last dozen after using it on my explorer all game. I’m about to get turbo fuel production online though Can the jetpack use turbo fuel yet or is it still limited to regular fuel because reasons?
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