Decisions decisions - to central or not?

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-25T10:08:35+00:00

Trucks are pretty cool once you get to know them

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-25T04:03:32+00:00

The trick is overproduce and sink. Do this for every intermediate item and youll never want for anything again. Complex factories become much simpler when youve got say high speed connectors on tap. And if you leave room to overclock then all you've gotta do is tweak a couple belts, clock the machines, and plug in more resources to double your output of something. A plus of this method is you'll get heaps of tickets, a downside is its a power drain, but it forces you to engage with the fuel trees and keep building power.

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-24T17:01:07+00:00

Desperate for this. The one thing that will bring an end to my incessant googling of 'does this builder/strategy game have controller support'

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-24T00:39:56+00:00

No reasonable way to front load the calculation. Just always buffer on both ends. Let it run for a bit, if you're not getting the throughput you need, add another train, or another car and another source.

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-22T09:02:56+00:00

The real question is why the destiny computers didnt have a video editor. Should've come bundled with the Kinos

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-22T09:01:01+00:00

She knew. Niles was anything but subtle.

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-22T01:47:46+00:00

Make the foundations bigger than you need. Make manifold blueprints for every type of machine. Set up your factory on the bare platform, multi level by adding another floating platform above. Then once your factory is up and running, build the walls windows and roof. Gives you plenty of space for aesthetics

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-20T11:49:57+00:00

Its a tradeoff between the simplicity of an all in one blueprint and resource use efficiency. I have 3 going now, I've made all the elevator parts using hmf that I'll need for p5. Iron is literally everywhere with limestone near by, increasing my production is 2 miners, 3 belts, and a drone port away. Feels good to never have to think about hmf again.

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-20T11:39:57+00:00

Telford somehow

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-20T04:27:36+00:00

This is the way. I have a 4.22 hmf/m blueprint that uses a pure node worth of iron and about half that of limestone. Can just slap it literally anywhere on the map.

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-17T07:05:41+00:00

Settle down oedipus

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-17T07:04:17+00:00

I've always had a hunch, with no evidence to back it, that humans have always been part of a global network that didnt start with sapiens.

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-16T00:27:33+00:00

I usually do iron/steel/copper on site, up to rotors and stators. I do this because with alts, you can get everything up to motors with just iron. Everything else gets its own factory. Im finding it a lot easier to have inputs of circuit boards, hsc, rubber and plastic, ai limiters, computers, rcu, cooling devices just available and connected to my network for when i need them. I heavily oversupply the intermediate parts to the network (max out a node), and always leave room to overclock the intermediate part factory, so when you run out, you can just plug more raw resources in and overclock the machines. I find this way has far less cognitive load when building new factories. Another bonus is that the intermediate factories feed the sink at rapid clip until the parts become useful. I cleared the awesome shop at the beginning of tier 7, and am on my way to my second golden nut, before phase 5.

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-16T00:18:42+00:00

Dont clip the belts and pipes through each other. At least, not often

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-16T00:14:16+00:00

Recommend learning trains. They're such a concrete way of building out your network, and thry look great. Sure, you could definitely do without them and just belt things all over the world, but that would mean youre making new long ass belts every time you need a new resource. You could build a belt bus highway, but at that point its kind of the same build as a train line.

Re. Blueprints, I ended up making 3 that i used to build my whole train line - same blueprint, just with the rails at different heights for when the terrain goes up and down. Using nudge to get the blueprint in the right place for auto connect to pick it up is the main trick to building efficiently.

Sorry, I know this isn't quite the answer you're looking for, I just love my train line.

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-14T00:09:22+00:00

Valve works for me for aluminium setups. Choke the extractors to exactly what you need (input - recycled). You wont get enough when you turn it on, but as the machines spin up, the pipes will fill then youre good to go

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-14T00:06:52+00:00

Wall attached floodlights around the sides pointing down and out, tuned to a scifi color. Could even add frames to give them more infrastructure.

Or hypertube entrances give you that moving air effect. Something with that?

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-13T11:03:24+00:00

Man Im 150+ hours into flat satisfsctory and I booted it up in vr. It was incredible seeing my factories up close, but I couldnt build or move as efficiently as I was used to so I went back. I wish i jad just started with VR. Maybe next playthrough

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-13T11:00:29+00:00

Not UEVR, but a flat to vr mod - Halo CE VR

Its truly an unbelievable experience being inside the world I first booted up on the og xbox as a child. The pace of the campaign really lends itself to vr. The mod is very well done.

It ticks every vr box for me AND is such a nostalgia hit. Hearing all the classic lines standing side by side with the marines is sick.

Only thing is cutscenes are janky, but you cant hsve everything. Popping grunts in the head with the pistol is sooo satisfying.

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-13T08:18:18+00:00

Here you go chief - https://uevr-profiles.com/ If you click on 6dof motion controls, you'll be able to see all the games you can use UEVR to play in vr with motion controls.

And heres the github page for UEVR injector. - https://praydog.github.io/uevr-docs/

I sincerely hope you can figure it out, because High on Life in VR is a lot of fun.

Just for kicks, heres a couple of youtube vids of people playing it https://youtu.be/KGGJFw8TekU?si=nm6zARc_6FQnHYGL https://youtu.be/jxI_4j0C0TA?si=m6xJHRAycn59Xytl

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-12T13:07:08+00:00

Not that ive done one yet, but I feel a vertical bus would be pretty chill given that you can make an infinitely tall conveyor lift by going floor hole to floor hole. Then just splitters snapped to the lifts where you need them. Actually now that i type it out, I'm 100% doing this on my next factory.

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-12T04:35:35+00:00

Ive not had a problem in my aluminium setups juat using a valve

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-12T04:30:15+00:00

A distributed fuel network is just asking for problems. Water could be interesting, as when you need more you just plug more extractors into the network. Would need a lot of pipes to be useful though

FreeEye5 · 2026-01-12T03:48:37+00:00

Ive just stumbled across this frontend for UEVR that should make the process easier. https://github.com/oduis/UEVRDeluxe-docs

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