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Elfface posted:Aha, I found my huge mess! First factory to make blue science packs. I keep seeing GIFs like this of this game and that old cartoon "industry/factory/building something" music keeps playing in my head. It's sort of wonderful. 
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May 8, 2014 22:11
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Breetai posted:Dollars to donuts it's this. I'll confirm/deny soon as I get home from work and I can actually see youtube again. (   )
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May 9, 2014 00:09
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Now that I'm finally back from work...Breetai posted:Dollars to donuts it's this. It is indeed this I was thinking of, specifically the bit starting at 1m13s. Just loop that in the background Factorio guys, you're pretty much done with the music. 
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May 9, 2014 05:50
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Has anyone done any good gameplay video series' on this, by chance? I could use something to watch while zoned out too much to actually play
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Feb 28, 2016 23:41
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Royal W posted:Arumba is a pretty good player and youtuber. He is doing a series right now with another streamer and they're up to 60 episodes. This looks like exactly what I was looking for, thanks! (edit) Both of you!
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Feb 28, 2016 23:50
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What's the keybinding to put fuel into machines without having to open their gui and do it manually? I've seen it in videos but combinations of modifiers and clicking don't seem to be working (except to take fuel back out).
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Mar 1, 2016 16:35
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Oh, didn't realize you'd have to hold it, derp, thanks. New question, is the game's framerate supposed to be oddly choppy? It hitches for a split second every half of a second or so, from the very start of playing. Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Mar 1, 2016 |
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Mar 1, 2016 16:58
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What is a "bus" belt? I've just started playing this morning and have a single lab automated on red packs and I already feel like I've done it completely wrong. Also the hotbar is a hot mess, why can't I hit 6 through 0 to use those, I have to drag them to the left hotbar instead 
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Mar 1, 2016 22:35
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Blast and drat it I wish I could see imgur at work. Stupid "mixed content/potentially adult" rating. Oh well, thanks for all the pics and explanations, I'll look tonight when I tear down what little I have so far and start rebuilding. (edit) Actually I might outright start over. I probably haven't made much pollution yet, but am I right in understanding that it's cumulative over time, so the fiddling I've done so far leaves me in a slightly worse position vis a vis biters, or is it more about the current total output?
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Mar 2, 2016 00:27
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Would turning on Peaceful Mode ruin the ~game experience~ for me much? I'd kind of rather take my time and learn all the right numbers and ratios, than rush to get hamfisted defenses up.
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Mar 2, 2016 01:57
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Ratzap posted:You could do worse than look at Negative Root's new series for the steam release. He starts with setup options for a beginner and goes through the early game, furnace blocks and a big bus. Thanks, I'll watch this while I continue to gently caress around. Question, it looks from empirical testing that I need two stone furnaces to one electric miner, but what's the math to have figured that out from the displayed stats? Is there a wiki with mathy stuff I can look up for this sort of ratio thing when I need it?
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Mar 2, 2016 05:13
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Yeah, crafting looks simpler, it was the mining that was throwing me, there's a few different numbers there between the furnaces and the miners I can't reconcile. New question, I haven't looked at any of the bus pictures on the last page yet, wanted to see if I could figure out the idea first. Is this generally it, or if not, what mistake(s) am I making? 
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Mar 2, 2016 05:31
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Improvements on my previous, you all think? - Added space between each element of the bus, maybe that'll get me something later - Widened the iron plate bus - Added iron gears to the bus - Made a red pack line instead of direct inserting to the lab
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Mar 2, 2016 05:55
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oh god i can feel the addiction bug starting to bite he;lp (edit) Are steel furnaces electric? I'd rather not have to set up more coal conveyors if I can just electrify the things Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Mar 2, 2016 |
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Mar 2, 2016 05:55
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pisssss maybe I should set up a separate smelting area so I can cart all the coal to two places then (power and smelting) instead of power and (# of mines) then
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Mar 2, 2016 06:12
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Gotcha, I'll have to refine that. Speaking of needing refinement I fear I may have badly hosed the dog on this one  Lucky it's on peaceful. Time to break this poo poo down and try again
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Mar 2, 2016 06:32
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oh hey it's 1130 where the gently caress did the last four hours go
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Mar 2, 2016 08:32
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I have elected to start a new map because oh my god sudden bodies of water offscreen are assholes my base is ruined 
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Mar 2, 2016 18:14
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Ratzap posted:You can also (in addition to the chap who suggested low terrain segmentation) set it to water only in the start area. That means of course that all your steam and oil work will need to be done near the start area but it does guarantee nice open areas. I started a new map with both of these options, yeah. So far so much better, except I have to walk a long way to chop wood for more electric poles. How far in do I have to go before I can get different poles and stop using wood entirely?
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Mar 2, 2016 20:51
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Now that I'm at work and thinking about factorio, new question. Say I have a four belt iron plate bus; on one side a splitter takes half the plates off for iron gears, leaving that belt half empty (assuming there's no input backlog). (Or, more likely, dedicate that belt on the bus entirely to gears, because god drat do I need a lot of gears.) How do I then re-balance the bus after that point? Best I can figure is to leave the bus unbalanced until I have another factory that needs plates, take those from the belt on the opposite side, then put two splitters inline on the bus to "rob" the middle two lanes.
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Mar 2, 2016 20:54
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Moddington posted:What you're working with here is what I'd term a "naive bus". A bus system that's designed without any specific knowledge of what it's going to feed. Which makes them incredibly flexible, and a great system to center your entire base around, all the way up to launching a rocket. Bookmarking the hell out of this post, too. Thanks! Also that factoratio webapp is insanely cool and I wish I'd thought of making something like it 
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Mar 2, 2016 23:45
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Thanks for the fixes. New question, how do you work out how many assemblers of each science pack you need to support a given number of labs? Empirically? For that matter, how many labs do you all run with? Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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Mar 3, 2016 01:53
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I can probably support more labs than I have right now, then. Problem being I'm not quite sure what to improve next, now that I'm back more or less where I was before I restarted. I think I need to improve my iron supply followed by my iron gear pipeline. Time for a break for a few minutes, though.
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Mar 3, 2016 02:58
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Oh lord, time to get into oil processing for plastics. This is uncharted territory for me. Wonder how many ways I can gently caress this up (ed) Though at least I'm making enough research that I'm just kind of blindly clicking my way through the stuff that needs red and green, so that's good I guess??? Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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Mar 3, 2016 03:53
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aww thanks  this game is a disease send help I'm hosed for copper now, though, so time to get into trains and embrace my inner OpenTTD nerd. I expect this to end in horrid disaster.
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Mar 3, 2016 05:06
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Ratzap posted:Not so fast sunshine... for trains you must first pass Oil 101, then the Joy of steel works and engines for every man. I put together a very temporary disasterpiece to get plastics earlier, I'm guessing one of these products that I'm not using yet is how I get the fuel for the locomotives. I'll work that out next.  (ed) And yeah steel production is unbussed at the moment, debating whether I'll actually need that to have it's own bus or not still. Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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Mar 3, 2016 05:29
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I think he meant the train cars, 'cos yeah that's how I just got fuel into my engines. Got two engines, one on each end, and a cargo car in the middle on the tracks. Got a train stop at each end, all the tracks are connected, but the train is whingeing that there's no path. Hrm.
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Mar 3, 2016 05:45
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Oh, the stops have to be on the right relative to the direction of travel, that makes sense now. I DID ANOTHER DUMB THING 
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Mar 3, 2016 06:02
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minutes later, the train failed to stop five were killed
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Mar 3, 2016 06:03
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Sadly I'm at work so I can't continue my cute-newbie crusade for a few hours I'm excited to, though. First thing I gotta do tonight is figure out if I want to look into robots yet or not. I have a general idea in mind of how they work but I'm not really sure how to use them, or whether to tear down my current bus infrastructure and replace it with them, or perhaps even spread out some--now that I have the resources, maybe take my current bus-based factory, tear it down into nothing but a smeltery making iron, copper, and steel plates, and link it by trains on one side to mines, and on the other side to various factories run by robots, placed out a few screens so they all have massive room to expand (because who cares about travel time when you have trains and cars). Then I think to myself there's no reason to do that besides hubris, I have shitloads of resources right where I started. Then I think alternately "so what?" and "maybe I'll start over, installing some mods like RSO, to give trains a real purpose." this is how madness starts isn't it
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Mar 3, 2016 23:44
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When I was reading logistics bots made sense right from the off but construction bots didn't make much sense--at least, without pictures (work proxy ). I'll have to see an example of them in use to get it. I don't remember, do train stops or signals need electric power to function? I found a giiiiiant coal deposit a ways out, figure I could set that up as an end-of-the-line for a rail network, but I don't particularly want to drag rail lines AND poles out there. Speaking of which, there any faster way to lay rail than running alongside and click-dragging a la belts? Especially with respect to 90 degree turns, that was a pain in the butt even only done twice for my copper mine yesterday.
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Mar 3, 2016 23:56
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Ratzap posted:And just how are you going to load the train without electricity for inserters? You will be running power out there or make a local substation with some solar+accumulators. I was about to be slightly snarky and say "burner inserters  " then asked myself about the actual mining part of that plan and welp i'm dumbNever messed with solar, though, so this seems like a good excuse to figure that out.
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Mar 4, 2016 00:24
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Tenebrais posted:Two main functions of construction bots: Neat! Not so much the former because I'm a giant peaceful-playing babby, but the latter sounds neat. So I can make a blueprint of the green-circuit factory and just duplicate the whole drat thing lock stock and barrel? Cool.
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Mar 4, 2016 00:25
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Solumin posted:Vertical trains are in fact shorter than horizontal trains. Video games! So that's why my loving inserters weren't working right. God drat video games.
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Mar 4, 2016 04:15
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Well it's going to be slow, need a teardown or three especially on the oil processing side, and makes me cringe a bit to look at but god damnit I did science 3 automation Now to go make dinner and let it sit for a while so I can spot the backlogs on the belts Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Mar 4, 2016 |
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Mar 4, 2016 05:30
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Looks like my current shortfall with what I have is green circuits, which means new factory time I'd like to work out construction bots to do that though, which means lubricant, which means... well, what it actually means is taking down and redoing oil processing 'cos all the crammed-together-ness has screwed my ability to pipe. Rats. Question because I don't understand pipe mechanics, is there a way to completely empty one storage tank into another or can i only save half of it if I need to destroy it (by building the new tank first and piping to it)?
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Mar 4, 2016 06:08
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Nth Doctor posted:You've gotten further than me. I got a small wall factory up and running. Barely. The biters are angry with me, and come in a wave every few minutes. Console yourself with the knowledge that I am a giant sissy and turned on peaceful
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Mar 4, 2016 06:17
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My goodness watching construction bots just go to work and start making whatever poo poo I tell them to is a magical moment I may have shed a manly, nerdy tear
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Suspicious Dish posted:Trying to get green science working. I think you can tell I originally had a lot more duplicate factories and finally got around to removing them since they were just stealing parts from other things. I have decided I mostly cannot be bothered with ratios but there are a couple I feel I'm going to memorize. One of those is for making green circuits; three copper wire factories to two green circuit factories ends up being dead on I also think you can tear down four of the five iron gear factories serving your red pack production, since gears produce waaayyy faster than the packs do-- in fact, I have two gear factories serving six red pack factories, and an inserter and belt factory, and that's seemed to work okay
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