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Spent four hours today just making a new, tidy, research area which snowballed into re-doing my green and red science and getting military packs started, which then led to relocating my yellow and red magazines, lol. Looks pretty good but I think I'm going to end up deleting my entire chain of labs and scooting them over two spots just so I don't have an S-curve in the feeder belt for green and red packs.
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TheBeagle said:
Spent four hours today just making a new, tidy, research area which snowballed into re-doing my green and red science and getting military packs started, which then led to relocating my yellow and red magazines, lol. Looks pretty good but I think I'm going to end up deleting my entire chain of labs and scooting them over two spots just so I don't have an S-curve in the feeder belt for green and red packs.
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As long as you acknowledge this is simply the first of many times. And probably the easiest and quickest.
 
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TheBeagle said:
Spent four hours today just making a new, tidy, research area which snowballed into re-doing my green and red science and getting military packs started, which then led to relocating my yellow and red magazines, lol. Looks pretty good but I think I'm going to end up deleting my entire chain of labs and scooting them over two spots just so I don't have an S-curve in the feeder belt for green and red packs.
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Pro tip, start leaving massive amounts of space between stuff. Way more than you think necessary.

In the beginning it feels natural to clump your shit up to save on things like belts, but spacing things out will save you tons of hours trying to move everything.
 
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TheBeagle said:
Spent four hours today just making a new, tidy, research area which snowballed into re-doing my green and red science and getting military packs started, which then led to relocating my yellow and red magazines, lol. Looks pretty good but I think I'm going to end up deleting my entire chain of labs and scooting them over two spots just so I don't have an S-curve in the feeder belt for green and red packs.
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If it makes you feel better, improvements to underlying tech will make your existing factories obsolete and motivate you to redo them. Even near the end of my Space Exploration journey I was infrequently finding new ways to do things that would slightly improve many of my previous factories. Version 3 of my Whatchamacallit factory looked like shit when I got around to making version 4!

Factorio is kind of an exercise in balancing:
  1. Analysis paralysis on how to build a factory
  2. Redoing existing factories
  3. Building new tech
  4. Increasing production of existing systems

A lot of people get overwhelmed with it, but you just need to accept everything is garbage, enjoy the process of making factories and keep moving on.
 
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Tuco said:
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If it makes you feel better, improvements to underlying tech will make your existing factories obsolete and motivate you to redo them. Even near the end of my Space Exploration journey I was infrequently finding new ways to do things that would slightly improve many of my previous factories. Version 3 of my Whatchamacallit factory looked like shit when I got around to making version 4!

Factorio is kind of an exercise in balancing:
  1. Analysis paralysis on how to build a factory
  2. Redoing existing factories
  3. Building new tech
  4. Increasing production of existing systems

A lot of people get overwhelmed with it, but you just need to accept everything is garbage, enjoy the process of making factories and keep moving on.
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Everything is garbage, and then you get to that terrible storm planet where LITERALLY EVERYTHING IS GARBAGE
 
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I've been playing a Space Age save for the past few months.

I added planet mods Igrys, hyarion, arig, Corrundum, Secretas/Frozeta, and Paracel. It's keeping me busy! I don't think I'm going to scale this into a mega base though, the platform transfer management is tedious.

I do plan to play a Krastorio 2.0 mega base some day though. It keeps everything on Nauvis.
 
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My goal at this point is just to get far enough into the game to understand wtf you guys are even talking about haha.
 
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Holy crap, everything has been going pretty decent, getting into yellow science/rocket silo research and everything has ground to a halt. Suddenly not producing enough plastic and backtrace that to how fucked my whole fluid/refinery situation is. Deciding whether I blow the entire fluid operation up and build it back fresh the right way, which will take my autistic ass 4 or 5 hours, or just slap a bunch of duct tape all over everything enough to squeeze out enough plastic to keep my purple science limping along enough to finish out this playthrough. I have a feeling duct tape wont get me to the end and I need to bite the bullet and get all my refining and fluid distribution right.

Man, I'm both stoked and kind of dreading taking it up a notch after this first vanilla playthrough, knowing I've barely scratched the surface.
 
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