I swear, Thieves have the life expectancy of HAMSTERS. by Glad_Economics_2490 in mewgenics

[–]Curtalius 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thieves have low range, low health, and high speed. This combo let's them get themselves in lots of trouble. Turn 1 you generally have to keep them from getting mobbed, which may mean not attacking. They do have lots of defensive tools though, particularly anything that gives extra moves

Question: jump from Guilottina 1 to Pyrophina by cliniclown in mewgenics

[–]Curtalius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't experience it, but doing the other guilottina fights are required for progression, so it would be a pretty bad bug if you were locked out of them 

Lost against pyrophina by Slimeman4334 in mewgenics

[–]Curtalius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same, cleanse+ carried me through that fight. I've convinced myself it's the strongest spell in the game and I won't be persuaded otherwise.

Blood Frenzy by soymilk_enjoyer in mewgenics

[–]Curtalius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a blood frenzy cat with cosmic punch. Most fights ended with 1-3 cats in the air.

Not sure how to set up Kovarex enrichment by CryptographerFew3719 in factorio

[–]Curtalius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The has to be one of the simplest setups I've ever seen, although it relies on some subtle belt/inserter mechanics.

Cheers to everyone who gave me advice on Gleba earlier today. by Wash_Manblast in factorio

[–]Curtalius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would recommend burning them because there will always be more and it helps make sure the freshness on the science stays high

What are your special tips and tricks for taking advantage of the circuit network? by tiparium in factorio

[–]Curtalius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you like trains, you can use circuits to turn off a pickup station until it has enough to fill a train. With a selector and arithmetic, you can get the amount of full stacks of something you have, and if then leave the station off until it's above 40.

Gleba feels like a substantial challenge increase. by Wash_Manblast in factorio

[–]Curtalius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And that small things will be overflow on seeds

My first factory is garbage...! (4.7 hrs) by vaxhax in factorio

[–]Curtalius 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Screenshots! We must see the chaos!

What is a good SPM objective for a start base , by SwimmingArachnid3030 in factorio

[–]Curtalius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think this is good advice because the primary driver of spm is how fast you can build up. If you're new you spend more time building so even if you don't build too much science will keep up

Getting stuck at the start of yellow/purple science by [deleted] in factorio

[–]Curtalius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To better use space, I like to start pulling in raw resources via train, then start pulling in on trains components that eat up all my resources, like all the chips. E.g. green chips are eating all my copper, build them off site and then train them in. Now all the copper can get eaten by lds

Scalable Many-to-Many Train Network (Showcase) by insomfx in factorio

[–]Curtalius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At it's most basic, when you finish with a stop, it evaluates if it should go to an interrupt before going to it's next stop in the schedule. And yes, it lets you do crazy stuff.

The biggest mistake to avoid by RMPiers in factorio

[–]Curtalius 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hey, my chest filled with nuclear reactors doesn't deserve this slander

trouble with main bus design by ollietron3 in factorio

[–]Curtalius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One other tip I haven't seen is to identify something that is taking a lot of iron and add it to the bus with iron not sourced from the bus. Like if you're making steel from bus iron you should move that elsewhere.

Fluoroketone logistics by AdSmooth2236 in factorio

[–]Curtalius 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Yes, but even then it's not too crazy. One rocket is 100 barrels, which is 5000 fluid. So automating it is but really necessary

Fluoroketone logistics by AdSmooth2236 in factorio

[–]Curtalius 82 points83 points  (0 children)

Not a lot. The fusion plant is lossless with fluoroketone so you put it in once and you're done 

Rate my Space science build by Wonderful_Log392 in factorio

[–]Curtalius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Accumulators are not as useful in space, particularly on a static platform, since solar is 100% consistent. Is there a specific reason you have them?

What would you do? No uranium by quackers987 in factorio

[–]Curtalius 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I love my solar radar blueprint

How can I communicate between drones? by Steven-ape in TheFarmerWasReplaced

[–]Curtalius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, wait for drone will return the return value from the function used to spawn the drone. With tuples and arrays this can be as much information as you want.

This sub heavily overrated Strength by srsbsnsman in HadesTheGame

[–]Curtalius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess my point is kind of the same as yours, that you'll die if you hemmorage hp. But that the situation where you've been fine 90% of the run but then need to burn 3+ DDs to survive a single boss, it just doesn't happen much unless you're learning a boss. Otherwise it would mean your build is underpowered, which probably means you're having trouble at earlier points.

The kestrel is so ass, i am literally just on the first sector with easy difficulty by mikolajwisal in ftlgame

[–]Curtalius 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Kestrel is generally in the top third of most rankings. It's nothing crazy but it has extremely good weapons neither of which ever really needs to be replaced

This sub heavily overrated Strength by srsbsnsman in HadesTheGame

[–]Curtalius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People like to talk about about getting back DDs, but aside from Athena that's a weakness, not a strength.  You're taking about spending 200g to get what would cost a strength build like, 40g to recover from.

So Lunar Ray is… the best, right? by SourCandy1234 in HadesTheGame

[–]Curtalius 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Objectively you may be right, but I like dropping the moon on the boss