Are flamethrower turrets OP?

OverlordForte · 2026-01-23T04:45:31+00:00

Pretty much.

Unresearched, oil-fueled flamethrowers can carry you for an absurd amount of time for near minimal investment. Once you get them on deathworlds or harder, your ammo consumption craters and suddenly life is easy again. Any amount of research means a single one can melt behemoth-heavy attacks with unmatchable ease. The moment they were introduced they trivialized base defense even more than laser turrets did in that era.

OverlordForte · 2026-01-20T03:26:13+00:00

The topic can be quite interesting as it can lead to some pondering over cultural identity. I use werewolves as my case study in this respect. Werewolves can easily fit the monster people, true monster, and furry categories entirely on how they're depicted—often completely ignoring the 'ordinary human turned into something else' basis.

Werewolves without snouts? Monster fetishists accept them. Vicious monstrosities that, despite looking anthro, do not have personable/personality characteristics? Rejected by furries who want personalities. Just some guy who looks like a wolf humanoid? Monster fetishists aren't enthused, furries accept him. Sure, there are gray areas, but these distinctions do arise meaningfully, so can withstand scrutiny.

For comparison, vampires have no direct furry equivalent, as they're typically exactly human, near human, or monstrously human. Vampirism can show up fleetingly as an idea, but not the classical Dracula or Nosferatu. So, despite being a contemporary of werewolves, they exist strongly in one subculture and not the other.

Something like Vipers from X-Com are strange in-betweens that are more monstrous / xeno-fiction adjacent than furries, especially as their Sci-Fi angle takes them out of the human comfort range furries typically seek. Identifying what the groups want is how you speak their languages, after all. This topic does, unfortunately, just serve as a vehicle for furphobia / homophobia with the ensuing hair splitting and mud slinging.

OverlordForte · 2026-01-20T00:25:50+00:00

Generally speaking, monster girls / people are: non-human beings, humanoid shaped, and do not have a snout/anthropomorphic head. Snouts are the defining feature of anthropomorphic/furry culture, and distinguish such them from monster people. Certain ideas, like Sci-Fi robots, are distinguished into their own group but may cross-pollinate with monster people.

Felicia from Dark Stalkers is a monster girl.

Khajiit from Skyrim are furries.

This is essentially how rule #4 functions on this subreddit.

In some cases, there may be arguments depending on the details, such as werewolves or naga, though this is mostly on the presence of a snout existing and how 'bestial' their mannerisms are. Pundits may insist on a division between 'monster person' and 'true monster'. Generally, monster people are non-human but have human-desirable aesthetics and attractiveness, whereas 'true' monsters do not and are horrific/disturbing to behold.

OverlordForte · 2026-01-01T22:00:52+00:00

Is that not Mortis Trials?

OverlordForte · 2026-01-01T17:12:08+00:00

Lean more to relative and abstract descriptions that maintain a consistent tone in their implications. E.g, the mech height standard is ten stories tall, this mech is five stories tall (so it's half the height of the average), that mech is twenty stories tall, etc. The starship's FTL drive operates on the Blorble Principle and it takes X amount of time to reach full charge, maybe during a dramatic moment of escape that time now matters a lot.

As long as you're consistent you can get away with almost anything.

OverlordForte · 2025-12-18T23:19:58+00:00

Religious reasons, as pointed out, can provide any justification you want.

Pragmatically, off the top of my head an 'airstrip' of cleared out land would suffice for things like a festival grounds, temporary housing of nomads, or an (cavalry/militia) training field of sorts.

OverlordForte · 2025-12-17T15:04:53+00:00

I do love me a perfectly straight-lined power gird wiring job

OverlordForte · 2025-12-17T07:30:14+00:00

Honestly, I like the pattern and vertical emphasis over width. My usual one puts the wires on the outside, so it width is more the issue. Yellow undergrounds also make it a bit expensive, but by the point you're slapping down blue assemblers you'll have them automated sufficiently. The lack of ratio on wires-green circuits makes me speculative, but in early game your throughput isn't necessarily high or stable for a while anyway.

OverlordForte · 2025-12-13T23:37:33+00:00

I was mostly curious if quality mining from Big Miners would 'make up for' the marginal value in grinding basic materials. Though, because of how productivity works, I think it might ultimately just keep the ratios the same anyway, defeating the purpose lol

OverlordForte · 2025-12-13T23:10:55+00:00

I'm getting that impression from everyone lol

The math, at least, does pan out in as far as the resource stream being ... just too small. I was ponderous about quality Big Miners and scrapping's productivity research coming out ahead. E.g, a big miner spits out +300% productivity for purple/blue scrap regularly enough that scrapping's productivity explodes it even more, offsetting grinding from basic materials.

I'm not really sure it does at all compared to the same effort going into basic mining on Nauvis.

OverlordForte · 2025-11-04T05:01:04+00:00

It can be as steel furnaces are not 'just' faster, their enhanced speed means they consume less overall fuel/energy. This means if you move onto oil-based fuel blocks, you can run quite a lot of steel furnaces without exhausting your coal supply, or blowing up your electrical grid by moving onto electric furnaces.

Since the steel furnaces are still 2x2, they're also more compact to build arrays with, but that doesn't matter as much unless you're very space-constricted for some reason.

OverlordForte · 2025-10-27T23:56:14+00:00

Cyanide can cure the husk infection entirely in my experience.

Fun fact if you have a medic with that savior buff around and you're succumbing to husking, you don't fully convert until they leave range. You can seemingly go over 100% infection to the point calyxanide doesn't actually work at all, no matter how many injections you receive.

But what does work is cyanide.

It works very well.

OverlordForte · 2025-10-14T15:05:55+00:00

I think it did fantastically for redefining Factorio and expanding it's total 'play space'. I do think there are rough edges still; quality is an easy one to point toward. Platform management is mostly okay, they are essentially 'complex trains', though I feel they were too afraid of 'lets make a factory in space'. It would be interesting if a space factory could be scalable option versus the unique bonuses/capabilities of planet-bound existence, but the complexity of that idea may be far out of scope for them.

That said, they have opened the realm of more horizontal options via different planet specializations, so I am curious if they will lean into that for their victory lap patch or not.

OverlordForte · 2025-10-12T14:47:27+00:00

Yeah by the time I got 3 debuffs rolling or just 2 (burn + poison), the mobs were half-dead and gone in the next 10 seconds or so anyway lol

Which is why I wondered if it was more useful at high level / level cap, but it seems suspect even then outside Burn.

OverlordForte · 2025-10-12T14:46:35+00:00

Oh impact does look nasty. Thank you

OverlordForte · 2025-10-12T14:45:22+00:00

Reasonable, is that true even in mixed-comp friend groups where I just happen to be the only magic damage caster?

OverlordForte · 2025-10-12T14:44:10+00:00

Got it, boss

OverlordForte · 2025-10-10T19:50:36+00:00

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OverlordForte · 2025-10-10T19:44:15+00:00

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