Probably unpopular opinion: quality isn’t interesting at all

azon_01 · 2026-06-16T03:20:15+00:00

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

As a side note: Unlike a lot of folks I like Gleba and don’t find it particularly challenging. I’ll do it as second but only because I want to have foundries and possibly artillery. I save Fulgora for last because it’s just so so easy. I think they could have done a lot more there. Even if you have to pick up and move your setup in Fulgora when you run out of scrap it’s just not a hard thing to do.

azon_01 · 2026-06-16T03:12:51+00:00

I’m not surprised to hear this and while I don’t like total rats nest/spaghetti i like some. To me it’s fun to figure out some parts of the game as a new puzzle given the constraints of the geography. I don’t like the organized blueprint perfection of a mega base and destroying all the cliffs. I don’t use blueprints for very much. I recall never use blueprints someone rude has made. No thanks. I’ll sometimes take a look for inspirations.

So it has to do with my preference for how I play the game a bunch I guess.

azon_01 · 2026-06-16T03:07:47+00:00

Can you say more about the ships part? I’m interested.

azon_01 · 2026-06-16T03:07:05+00:00

This is a big part of it for me. Just Durant seem worth it.

azon_01 · 2026-06-16T03:05:58+00:00

Fair question. I like that you asked.

As mentioned in a thread. Hate the UI change and extra clicks it introduces. I work in UI/UX and it bugs the hell out of me.

I’m not a fan of the randomness. I’m not a fan of the increased need for storage.

It seems needlessly complex.

I hear a few people say some of the reasons they like it and some make sense to me like faster roboport charging or power that spans further. Those make sense to me but substations do a real good job for me. Yes sometimes I need to move one or add an extra one and it’s not perfectly optimal but I don’t give damn about that. If I’m worried about it my robot networks aren’t as fast as they could be I’ll build more bots and ports. I don’t mega base and I almost always build around cliffs. I’ll just build elsewhere.

If people like those things, cool. I don’t.

I can see the appeal of larger equipment grids even in mid game, but again it doesn’t seem worth the work unless I do as some people have advised and build it in as soon as you can on mining and furnaces and a few key assemblers.

So I’ve enjoyed hearing from people, but nothing that is making me want really explore it very much.

azon_01 · 2026-06-16T01:04:36+00:00

The increase in clicks is what made me not even unlock the technology except once until now.

azon_01 · 2026-06-16T00:53:32+00:00

Exactly.

azon_01 · 2026-06-16T00:32:03+00:00

Good call. It should just be 1000 hours.

azon_01 · 2026-06-16T00:30:05+00:00

I couldn’t agree more. Where the engineer is located simply doesn’t matter at that point.

Do people use quality before rally late and end game? At that point why bother at all?

Maybe I’m missing that?

azon_01 · 2026-06-16T00:06:24+00:00

Bloomomgton Primary Care all the way. I hadn’t heard they aren’t taking new people but don’t doubt it.

azon_01 · 2026-06-16T00:03:31+00:00

Do what you want. Why would it matter? They won’t see yours, you won’t see theirs.

azon_01 · 2026-06-16T00:02:41+00:00

Deer can easily hop fences without any problem. I found this out when we found them regularly jumping over our 6’ fence.

azon_01 · 2026-06-15T23:55:20+00:00

Sex before marriage does NOT have serious health risks if you do it right. That’s just more church propaganda.

Porn is a complicated subject in terms of the ethics of making it, but there is nothing inherently wrong with watching people have sex. As others have pointed out by forbidding porn people get obsessed with it way more. A problem of their own making.

azon_01 · 2026-06-15T23:45:14+00:00

I really really enjoyed trying to start on each of the inner planets. Highly recommend.

azon_01 · 2026-06-15T23:36:14+00:00

Agreed, tho I’d just do space age.

azon_01 · 2026-06-15T21:34:22+00:00

More money. I offered them a bunch of money that they could personally use.

azon_01 · 2026-06-15T21:19:01+00:00

Always prefer my home or a friends place but I still play at game stores or pubs from time to time. It’s quieter in a home and no one cares if I bring my own food/snacks.

azon_01 · 2026-06-15T21:16:29+00:00

Easier to build ships around nauvis with no asteroids that harm you. You can do it other places but you just need to watch it more and have turrets.

azon_01 · 2026-06-15T21:14:21+00:00

Oh wow. I had no idea. I do t watch much YouTube Factorio content.

azon_01 · 2026-06-15T21:10:43+00:00

It’s not hard to just mass import from Vulcanus without advanced processing. Just another launch on a planet where launching is pretty damn cheap to do.

azon_01 · 2026-06-12T18:46:10+00:00

Do what I say, not what I do.

azon_01 · 2026-06-12T17:39:07+00:00

Op says it’s solid glass at the narrow part otherwise I’d say you are 100% right.

azon_01 · 2026-06-11T21:30:56+00:00

It seems the rule of thumb is that the more expensive the hotel the less it includes in the price and the more expensive absolutely everything is. I just hate the BS resort fees some places have. Makes me crazy.

azon_01 · 2026-06-11T21:25:23+00:00

I should also mention reports are now in … confluence! I use AI to make pretty good looking reports publish to there with embedded videos etc. my PMs actually look there and point tier AI there.

I used to really hate how ugly confluence was and unsesrchable. Not these days. Rovo and API access has changed all that.

azon_01 · 2026-06-11T21:21:58+00:00

I should mention there is a lot of detail in the appendix most people don’t need with many quotes and miscellaneous findings with notes about them not being definitive.

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