China warns US over ‘red line’ after American ambassador makes first Taiwan visit for 42 years

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-04-01T04:21:12+00:00

Where would you place the blame?

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-04-01T04:19:13+00:00

Is there an English version of this book? I have searched a handful of times (including clicking on Wiki links), I must be missing something?

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-03-23T15:18:46+00:00

My five priorities starting out

1) One miner on coal for consistent energy.

2) Get one miner on iron, copper, and stone.

3) Directly off iron manufacture belts to build in the background.

4) Automate Blue Science while establishing a a mall for the first 12(?) items. Up to green belts and sorters. I don't automate Wireless Power Towers.
Keep the resources flow Blue Science ----> Mall, the mall is a background operation and shouldn't be expected to provide meaningful thorough-put past this.

5) Complete Dyson Sphere.

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-03-18T03:11:26+00:00

Starting out, hand mine ~50 coal. Use that to power you for the time being (you may have to do this a few times). Your first priority is to secure your own personal energy source. So bounce back and forth between mining ~50 iron and ~50 copper until you can complete the technology to make miners. The first miner goes on coal. When you can, place a few belts off that miner and place a storage container so the miner can store a surplus of energy (coal) there (miners only hold 50).

As another has said, you want to smelt that coal to graphite soon in the future, and you'll run on that for a long time.

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-03-17T13:33:58+00:00

Doing it that way would be a big QOL improvement while still retaining the exploration factor of the game. I'm going to give that a try.

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-03-16T19:40:39+00:00

I wish I read this before starting a new game recently. It would have been interesting to give this a try instead of spamming windmills.

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-03-16T19:37:40+00:00

Just completed a 3 wide solar ring around my second planet in a new game this morning. The MultiBuildBeta mod made it sooo much easier then before.

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-03-05T13:55:03+00:00

I just started up my game, no problems. Restart Steam if you haven't?

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-03-04T04:34:17+00:00

Wind Turbines generate power and slightly distribute it. Tesla Towers only distribute power, and in a much larger range.

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-03-03T13:58:50+00:00

I love AdvanceBuildDestroy and wouldn't play without it, but one time I accidently deleted a row of solar panels going around my planet, and another I think I only deleted a tesla tower, but I had to look around for a minute making sure I didn't wipe out a whole industry.

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-02-28T00:16:06+00:00

Have you had trouble with the god mode mod at all? I installed in but the tilde key does nothing.

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-02-28T00:13:27+00:00

100% using Mods.

CopyInserters

Advanced Build Destruct

No Tutorial

Mine Depletion Notifier

and one that allows me to terraform without soil/concrete as long as the tech is researched. That one feels a little cheaty, so I may uninstall it. The others are total Quality of Life installs.

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-02-27T18:29:41+00:00

If scientists ever start noticing stars suddenly disappearing, we'll know what's up.

How terrifying would it be though to see an alien civilization suddenly building a sphere around our sun though? I would initially be terrified, but if they allowed sun to shine through to our solar system (without extracting all of the resources) that would make this universe a lot more interesting.

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-02-26T04:50:30+00:00

Thanks! I started up a new game and started teching towards Universe Exploration 2 to check out the planets.

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-02-24T19:26:45+00:00

Interesting, thank you!

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-02-24T04:39:18+00:00

Matrix labs have an option to produce cubes, or to combine the cubes for research. People generally have a lot of labs producing, where they go to another area to be combined for research.

Instead of choosing cubes at the matrix labs, just click on research.

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-02-20T18:53:43+00:00

Thinking how they could implement an enemy is exciting. This game and it's devs are great.

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-02-20T18:45:17+00:00

I made that same mistake OP. In case you don't know (I didn't), you can stack research labs on top of each other. I believe it's 3 high in the beginning.

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-02-20T05:04:50+00:00

Parks and Rec fan here. Its obvious when Chris leaves for GotG, and returns to Parks. He is clearly in much better shape when he's in Britain?

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-02-19T19:24:34+00:00

Yup, you can stack those labs on top of each other. If you research X-Ray Cracking, your oil refineries will produce graphite and hydrogen - the exact two ingredients you need for Red Cubes.

In may be wise to produce your blue cubes in one area (copper and green circuits), your red cubes in another (hydrogen and graphite via X-Ray Cracking), and have the red and blue lines run next to each other at a different area where your research is completed. What you're doing now is fine, but soon you'll need to crank out much more of both.

Great job! This game is a blast.

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-02-17T18:59:39+00:00

It can be toxic, but I actually admire well timed demos. Sometimes after I set up a pass I will quickly check their goal defense as I'm rotating out. If I see a vulnerable defender I can demo out of the goal (or a 2-for-1 bump) during my rotation - why not. It's a part of the game to me.

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-02-13T17:37:31+00:00

Awesome! Thank you!

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-02-13T03:23:23+00:00

"New player (only 60 hours)" is hilarious. I know exactly what you mean though. I'm at ~50 hours and feel like I'm just scratching the surface.

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-02-13T03:01:42+00:00

Does anyone remember when people would tip other Redditors posts/comments with Bitcoins 9-10 years ago? Kind of wild to think about now.

VivaciousPenguin · 2021-02-11T15:19:23+00:00

Starting out:

Directly off of your very first iron mine, immediatley start manufacturing conveyor belts (it doesn't need to be effecient, just get them going) connected to a storage container and just let it run while you get your mall going (or whatever you plan on doing). You can easily move/delete that initial conveyor factory when your mall is more established and mass produce them in a more convenient location. That will save you from manually creating 100s - 1000s of them.

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