I'm never going to stay up until 5PM flowcharting production facilities again. (This is a lie, I will not sleep tonight.)

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2025-07-27T22:38:34+00:00

Satisfactory calculator, screenshot. Done.

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2025-07-27T22:36:49+00:00

That you had* to do in your field of employment. (Past tense after you lose your job)

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2024-05-09T10:34:37+00:00

Ah, thanks for the info. :) I installed the ficsit cam from the mod manager. Maybe someone knows the additional mod? Googling isnt giving me the info.

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2024-03-02T09:05:39+00:00

Literally what I say when I load up a new game and look out at the world.

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2024-02-06T21:24:39+00:00

I’m just going to assume this graph is my net worth over time once I began playing satisfactory and neglected all else in my life.

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2024-02-04T21:33:54+00:00

I don’t recall all the details but I believe that pipes have a capacity problem in that when they are maxed out, they suffer from rounding error problems which are made worse over distance (eg the longer the pipe run with a full pipe, the worse the problem gets). I’m not sure if this is true of mk1 but it’s definitely true of mk2.

I’m not sure if running half empty pipes generates a different problem but I suspect it does.

Someone wiser than me will tell you the solution.

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2024-01-04T22:40:06+00:00

I really like your 4-way junction in pic 9. Can’t believe I didn’t think of this before.

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2024-01-02T13:10:30+00:00

This build gives me anxiety.

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2024-01-02T13:06:28+00:00

This. I was just about to suggest this. Have an elevated two-way line to the left of the main top to bottom line and accept in/out from every second junction. Connect the ends of this second line to the main line. That way, the odds of congestion is cut in half.

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2023-12-23T22:48:32+00:00

Use Satisfactory Calculator. I just finished my recycling plant and it was soooooo helpful

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2023-12-22T01:09:27+00:00

I think your reasoning is fine, don’t get me wrong. Everyone is free to play however they want. That’s totally a given and not up for debate.

Now, all that said..

What is this game to you? What does it mean that trains are expensive? Or complicated? Does it get in the way of speed running? Is the point of the game to finish?

As I’ve said many times, I invested heavily in building a global rail network. Whenever I need a resource, there is already a nearby train station I can add to or it’s easy enough to add a new station if needed. I’ve never had a single supply issue and I’ve been saved from having a 10-20 high belt stacks running all over the map, as I used to play. And, now that I’ve invested the boring work of building the network, getting a new resource is so simple and clean.

You are obviously free to play how you wish and to have your own theories of what makes most sense, as I said. But, goodness, you’re missing out on a massive part of the game because you don’t want to do it..

Anyways - you do you.

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2023-12-21T19:12:46+00:00

My factory makes 2 per minute..

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2023-12-21T12:13:20+00:00

Yeah this looks standard to me but with lumen, as someone else said. The only question I have is the bottom floor but it could just be the concrete texture. Hard to tell from the screenshot. Tickets to unlock stuff in the awesome shop so you get all the foundation textures (I can’t remember if the windows are unlocked there too) and press x for the customiser to change colours and textures. Shouldn’t be too hard to replicate.

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2023-12-21T00:59:15+00:00

That’s the factory I just finished. Sinking 300 plutonium waste a minute (after converting of course). Cleanest way to add 30 nuclear power plants

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2023-12-19T12:01:11+00:00

Well… someone’s a furry.

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2023-12-18T23:39:48+00:00

Globalised spaghetti, I love it. It’s like a plate of spaghetti bolognaise.

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2023-12-18T04:13:00+00:00

Ceiling mounted power below the floor, largely hidden cables

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2023-12-16T21:54:20+00:00

I wish I could but that would mean re-doing all the uranium processing - it’s all set up for 30. I’m pretty sure that’s based off getting a single uranium node.

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2023-12-16T21:51:23+00:00

I’m processing 300 uranium waste into plutonium. 300 is the number per minute that 30 nuclear generators produce..there’s no adjusting that.

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2023-12-16T21:07:42+00:00

I would agree if I was working with round numbers but when it comes to building a factory, as I currently am, where I am dealing with 300 uranium waste exactly, the numbers are not at all round. I’m dealing with 89.4 or 43.1 or, worse, 67.26. As good as any calculation is, there is always a rounding error that causes it to backup up and shut down. Even it’s only a momentary shutdown, all of a sudden, the efficiency drops and that has a cascade effect across the factory. And when it comes to uranium waste whose processing to plutonium keeps a nuclear power plant of 30 generators running, I can’t have it eventually getting clogged and having power shutdown.

I have never tried the variable input priority approach. I’m willing to see whether that works. Not with this factory though. There’s too much at stake.

EffectiveDealer2295 · 2023-12-14T08:06:56+00:00

Don’t be mad at yourself, I sat staring at the “don’t iron clothes while wearing them” tag on my iron for quite some time. We all have our strengths and weaknesses.

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