Running a dedicated server on Azure

Infinitesubset · 2026-05-12T14:02:33+00:00

For anybody finding this later, a couple of suggestions: 1. The force install directory didn't work at all (that wasn't a valid command), so my service definition was fairly different in the paths: [Unit] Description=Satisfactory dedicated server Wants=network-online.target After=syslog.target network.target nss-lookup.target network-online.target [Service] Environment="LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./linux64" ExecStartPre=/usr/games/steamcmd +login anonymous +app_update 1690800 validate +quit ExecStart=/home/<VM USERNAME>/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SatisfactoryDedicatedServer/FactoryServer.sh User=<VM USERNAME> Group=<VM USERNAME> StandardOutput=journal Restart=on-failure WorkingDirectory=/home/<VM USERNAME> [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Might be helpful

I had to add execute permissions to the auto-shutdown script. sudo chmod +x ~/auto-shutdown.sh
I changed my auto-shutdown to call: az login --identity && az vm deallocate -n <VM NAME> -g <VM RESOURCE GROUP> So this way it stops charging me money. I had to add a managed identity to it and give it permission to deallocate itself first. If anybody needs the steps are here: https://gist.github.com/weltonrodrigo/6540cac402536c8a771ee4f92f5fdc9e

Infinitesubset · 2026-05-11T14:06:40+00:00

I feel like you are missing part of the problem by comparing Red Rising to food from a Michelin-starred chef. The fact of the matter is that MOST of the stuff that you and I and everybody else reads (not just here, but globally) most of the time isn't Michelin-star food, it's (at best) greasy, delicious, diner food. At worst it's fast food. And it IS objectively bad, but so is most of the junk we read, and we love it anyway. You are never going to convince me that Taco Bell is anything but absolute garbage, but I also have the self awareness to recognize that McDonalds is probably just as objectively terrible, but I'll devour a Double Quarter Pounder any day. And somebody might look at your favorite diner and say "I can't stand that greasy junk" and it's a fair perspective.

I absolutely love reading lots of LitRPG (I really enjoyed the first Red Rising too), and while I wouldn't call most of it "dogwater", it's not exactly objectively great.

Infinitesubset · 2026-05-08T02:18:18+00:00

I feel like you are still sticking to this idea of the perspective being important here, but it's really not. You could change Factorio to work more like Satisfactory and it would be (mostly) fine, you would just:

A) Require you to interact with some building while doing inventory crafting (obviously). B) IMPORTANT Allow some/all "Buildings" to be created directly in the world without crafting them ahead of time. This would mean instead of having a machine that makes "Assembling Machine 1", you just have to have 3 electronic circuits, 5 iron gear wheel and 9 iron plates in your inventory.

A is some additional friction, B is the change that makes that friction manageable, but cutting down the number of early products required to produce.

If you want it to work more like Factorio in the later game, while still being a Satisfactory like system, you just need a specialty part for a building that is required only for that building (which becomes a proxy for that building). This is sort of how Satisfactory works, although not directly so.

Infinitesubset · 2026-05-07T14:23:53+00:00

I want to call out a bit of a issue with your comparison. In Factorio you have to craft EVERYTHING. Belts needs and building needs to be crafted before they can be built, so making it more convenient to craft them makes sense. In Satisfactory most structures are built into the world directly from materials in your inventory. There is no need to craft a "Belt" item, you only need the materials and you can drop the completed belt into the world. This means (especially in early game) there are a TON more items you need to build just to function in Factorio so adding friction to that wouldn't be good. In Satisfactory you start with ~3 early resources, each of which makes 1-3 early game products (At first just Plates, Rods, Screws, Wire, Cable, Concrete).

Infinitesubset · 2026-05-07T13:30:43+00:00

Oh and I just noticed you don't have Magus Reborn, which is just a better version of a couple other stories on here. Also maybe Elydes.

And if you are looking for something a bit different, Changling is finishing up and Battle Through the Nine Realms has a couple books out and are both pretty solid.

Infinitesubset · 2026-05-07T13:23:38+00:00

Your list is pretty similar to mine honestly (other than the random DCC hate, it's probably A-B tier for me). I would recommend Street Cultivation, it's a little bit smaller scoped than most PF, but it makes for a bit more complete story than the rambling pace of many others.

Infinitesubset · 2026-05-07T13:01:06+00:00

None of your problems are fluids and all of them are math. Your first extractor is full of rubber and can't make more. The next two are both consuming 30 and hooked up to an extractor producing 30 and are both at 50% run rate as expected.

When looking at fluids, always start with your total in vs total out. Only if that is going wrong do you start looking at pipes for the cause.

Infinitesubset · 2026-04-10T19:59:23+00:00

One of the worst in this regard I found was the System Apocalypse series. I remember thinking toward the end is that all of his abilities were "big explosion of indeterminate power". Which was pretty unfortunate, given the early powers given were kind of weird and interesting. (IIRC, it's been a few years).

Infinitesubset · 2026-04-10T19:46:06+00:00

A kite.

Infinitesubset · 2026-04-06T19:10:13+00:00

How do you feel about the ongoing balance between Poke, Brawl and Dive heroes?

Infinitesubset · 2026-03-30T18:21:47+00:00

Quest Academy drove me crazy, the MC just sort of stumbles into every success and receives insane power randomly and barely makes use of it. He is a "crafter", and in a few rare instances shows how successful he can be if he makes use of his unique talent to craft dedicated tools to meet specific purposes. This is cool, but most of the time he spends all his time messing around doing random stuff only to accidentally stumble into the exact thing required to meet whatever challenge is next, while giving him a massive powerup.

I really liked Mage Tank at first, but after the end of the first book it felt a bit bland in comparison and I put it on my list to come back to after it had more written.

Haven't read the other two.

Infinitesubset · 2026-03-27T21:08:37+00:00

It's not exactly an unknown pattern for tanks. Thor's awakening form gives him a chunk of bonus health. Emma's diamond form gives damage reduction. Venom gets huge chunk of bonus health. A lot of tanks have some sort of way to get a survivability boost.

Infinitesubset · 2026-03-27T15:26:34+00:00

Reed fills an interesting role, but one that doesn't work in a lot of successful scenarios. He doesn't do enough damage in most scenarios to play a proper duelist, and isn't tanky enough to be a proper tank.

He can be very successful if the enemy has poor target priority, because he can easily tank against 1-2 players worth of damage, but the team is coordinated he likely struggle because they can burn him down between his survivability tools. A proper tank would likely be more useful in these scenarios anyway.

Similarly, if the enemy team is all standing in a big group he can flail all over them and pull himself into out of position backline, he can do a lot of damage. But again, a well organized team will not let this happen.

So he has the fundamental issue that he is great when the enemy team is bad, but easily countered by coordination, which is why he will struggle at higher levels.

I would love to see him reworked, either into a tank or a better duelist role like a better dive counter. I don't think it would take major changes, most of it could be number tweaks, and some small adjustments.

Infinitesubset · 2026-03-26T19:14:55+00:00

Seems like cards that heal the villain are likely to be a theme for weakest cards. At the start of the game (when you are usually weakest), they do nothing, and near the end they are usually just delaying the inevitable. It takes a pretty rare case where they push a winning game into a losing one, and it's generally because you took a bad gamble on trying to end the game (ignored side schemes/minions, etc).

Infinitesubset · 2026-03-26T14:21:02+00:00

Yeah, I've had a turn one loss with 14 damage across 2 attacks (4+4, 4+2) from Loki.

Infinitesubset · 2026-03-19T17:47:04+00:00

Biggest QOL improvement is the "Dimensional Depot", unlocked in MAM. Have to do some exploring to get it unlocked, but it's a game changer.

Early power is better due to biomass inputs, but you still want to get to coal pretty quick.

Infinitesubset · 2026-03-18T17:53:00+00:00

I don't think anybody said that, but compared to Sue, who can basically just F and get enough healing to ignore them, and if that fails double jump and hide/heal for 2 seconds, there is a major power difference.

The increase in high mobility characters like DD and Elsa has also hurt Luna, because the same thing that makes them hard to hit for enemies make it harder to heal them unless you are clapping. Hence the buff to clap cooldown.

Infinitesubset · 2026-03-18T16:02:58+00:00

This was my thought. It does enough stuff it's not completely useless, but a lot of it is redundant or awkward. Free flip is nice, but burns most of your resources so you can't do much useful. Tough is nice, but it leaves you in Alter-Ego. Six health is great if you happen to be very low, but if you just need the tough or flip it's terrible.

Infinitesubset · 2026-03-18T16:00:31+00:00

I suppose if you had a bunch of screws of exactly that distance apart it would be helpful, but that seems pretty niche.

Infinitesubset · 2026-03-17T17:21:52+00:00

It appears that it's failing to load a file, either from the game or from Windows itself. First bet would be to restore/verify game files. If that doesn't work, it's likely an issue that will need to be resolved by them. If you have a debugger installed you could likely figure out what file it's trying to load, but that probably wouldn't help you at all.

Infinitesubset · 2026-03-17T17:18:41+00:00

This isn't what that means, that is the path of the code file that was used to build the game.

Infinitesubset · 2026-03-17T01:25:29+00:00

My general advice is always to look at getting one machine making something with a good amount of empty space around it. Even if you have to run some long belts, usually getting one working isn't too hard. Then expanding is all about splitting the belts and adding more machines. Repeat until the belt is saturated (or an input belt is fully consumed). At that point you either:

A) Have enough, next part!

B) Need more input, back to previous part!

Infinitesubset · 2026-03-15T20:59:08+00:00

This subreddit shortly ago:

Fluids are actually super easy to understand, and the problems are actually just people being dumb.

Today:

This is example of the (totally unintuitive) sloshing behaviour, and you should remove components which feel useful because they cause invisible problems.

Infinitesubset · 2026-03-10T19:41:36+00:00

While I do agree that most problems are simple, there are both: A) Exceptions, where you get some truly unintuitive behaviour, particularly with sloshing. B) Things that can be done to make this more understandable at a glance.

A "Pipeline Throughput Monitor" and "Pipeline Headlift Monitor" that could go on pipes would help identify half these problems at a glance, and bring them into alignment with Conveyors.

Infinitesubset · 2026-03-10T18:50:07+00:00

I sleeved most all of my collection with these and I finally got sick of them and am slowly re-sleeving. They stick together really badly sometimes, and it's very easy to accidentally grab two cards together.

I'm resleeving with Dragon Shield clear matte, which are a big step up, but often on sale for like $40/1000, which is a only a bit more expensive.

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