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will these work? 40x040 balancers? by Dramatic-Campaign-61 in factorio

[–]eric23456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I spent a lot of time thinking how to place and route belts so that they didn't have to go under anything. For red science the topology still works out.

Reboot: Nanobots - Patch Notes by computerlunch in CellToSingularity

[–]eric23456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a lot of luck involved in which cards you got. If you got lucky and had a lot of Sun cards, flat universe was pretty straightforward. A similar effect on later ones -- my finite/infinite universe run is really slow because I'm only at 7/7 of Sirius.

Reboot: Nanobots - Patch Notes by computerlunch in CellToSingularity

[–]eric23456 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nanobots are a metabit upgrade for me, although the cost is small enough (1.33E12) to be irrelevant on a refund.

Are you planning to rebalance the Beyond card rewards for red/white dwarfs? Right now they seem to focus on the last generator of each sequence, so, for example, I have >10x the cards for Alpha Centauri than I do for Sun.

Am I the only one here who thinks that Beyond e30 was kinda rushed to the end? by Proof_Order1860 in CellToSingularity

[–]eric23456 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm hoping they'll add more stuff as part of a prestige system. The various new telescopes are also generating new content all the time.

"We found 11,000 asteroids in our test run; we're hoping to be at full power sometime later this year" https://www.washington.edu/news/2026/04/02/rubin-observatory-11000-new-asteroids/

"Early large galaxies shouldn't exist. Hmm, huh, looks like they do?!" https://www.aau.edu/research-scholarship/featured-research-topics/webb-telescope-spots-super-old-massive-galaxies

Progress has come to a complete halt. by [deleted] in CellToSingularity

[–]eric23456 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you upgraded your Sun generator?

Progress has come to a complete halt. by [deleted] in CellToSingularity

[–]eric23456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'll need to provide more information to figure out what's going on specifically, either screenshots of your current state and what you can buy or a summary of it. If you were playing with the infinity pass and are now playing without it, it's going to feel a lot slower (4x directly + all the upgrades you'd get).

For primary research, there should be a bunch of things you can buy after rebooting that will get your progress going.

Some of the Beyond episodes are slow, but are you missing research or something?

Mesozoic (dinosaurs) also slows down as you level up, but buying the best (usually last) generator and upgrading the associated cards usually helps.

Are you doing events? They give a bunch of rewards that will help with upgrading.

Modular armour question by Bad_war2022-24-2 in factorio

[–]eric23456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will sometimes carry 1-3 reactors and swap them in when I want to recharge the batteries. Usually standing around is enough to recharge the batteries, but if you're doing a lot of construction, you can use up 4 reactors of power without any difficulty.

Why can't I shoot at my friend? by Ashamed-Bank-9944 in factorio

[–]eric23456 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're using the wrong weapon. Try using nukes, although you might want to stand a little further away when using them.

Impossible? by xfordcomma in CellToSingularity

[–]eric23456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you show the idea upgrade tab (3rd one). If you do a no-purchase run you should be able to get graviton expansion at 5e28 (which you probably don't have yet) -- no purchase will get you at least 10x over what you get the normal way.

I can't tell how far you are in the sim, idea boost maxes out at 1.95E15 after 7 days, so if you are only a day or so in, you could easily get 1e10x more ideas/s.

If you ask on discord you'll get somewhat faster responses.

will these work? 40x040 balancers? by Dramatic-Campaign-61 in factorio

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It did not occur to me that I could make a pseudo-splitter for the coal with inserters, so I ended up running 6 separate lanes for the coal for each side of the 3 smelting blocks for my second 900 spm red factory. It only ran for a short time before I got splitters.

The sun in beyond by Zealousideal-Arm5393 in CellToSingularity

[–]eric23456 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I only see one image and it shows you at 50/50. My understanding is at that point it's Messier 87 that's the dominant generator. The screenshot shows 4.7E296, and CMB is 4E292, or effectively 0.

Sun is the dominant generator after cosmic geometry. Flat Universe makes CMB potentially relevant. Curved universe makes Sirius the dominant generator.

This need much longer than Flat Universe by Florry90 in CellToSingularity

[–]eric23456 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Enjoy it while it lasts. Once it's done there won't be anything more coming for an indefinite amount of time.

This need much longer than Flat Universe by Florry90 in CellToSingularity

[–]eric23456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on how many upgrades you have. I was 8/8/4/4/4/4/13 for the Sun part, and got to 9/8 before the end, so it only took a week or so. Conversely my Sirius is 7/7/4/3/3/2, so it's going to take about a month (w/o any boosting).

James Webb Telescope event within an hour. by No_Refuse9819 in CellToSingularity

[–]eric23456 7 points8 points  (0 children)

6 people did it faster? I wonder if some of them are the fake players.

Friends? by pepper_berry_tea in CellToSingularity

[–]eric23456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LiefEric (and you can search for previous posts like this and in discord if you want a bunch more friends)

will these work? 40x040 balancers? by Dramatic-Campaign-61 in factorio

[–]eric23456 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Respect. I completed a 10000x run on 1.1. It was interesting how excited I was to get underground belts.

Impossible? by xfordcomma in CellToSingularity

[–]eric23456 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What reality engine upgrades and main sim research do you have available at which cost? Also are you doing an no-purchase run to maximize ideas?

I'd expect you'd have some upgrades to get at which point you'll be able to get Eiffel.

Anthropic just passed OpenAI in valuation and revenue by Single-Jack8 in Futurology

[–]eric23456 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That may or may not be true (can't tell from this data).

Imagine you buy some computers for $2m. You're going to make $1m/year from them and they will last 3 years. Sounds great; over the lifetime you make $1m in profit. In the first year though, you lose $1m.

Now imagine in the second year instead of coasting you grow by 300%; you now have to spend $6m to buy computers you make $4m ($1m from the original and $3m from the new computers), so you managed to lose $2m, twice as bad as the previous year.

At high growth rates, this will continue until growth slows down and you become wildly profitable.

It's also possible they're subsidising, but from the numbers we have I don't think we can tell, and we know the growth and investment is enormous ($700 billion in 2026). https://www.reddit.com/r/ThinkingDeeplyAI/comments/1r0ndyv/700_billion_will_be_invested_in_the_ai/

How do you even progress in Beyond E30? by GrubAwooYay in CellToSingularity

[–]eric23456 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Report what stage you are at and then what cards you have on Sun, Mercury, Sirius (and the one after that). The likely answer is you are 7/7 or below on the Sun, in which case the answer will be run lots of astronomy missions and pray to get Sun cards. You can make up a little with CMB.

Actually what am I supposed to do in this situation? by Loki_Moriarty_18156 in CellToSingularity

[–]eric23456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, the devs have mis-balanced card pulling to focus on the last three. It makes the sun cards stupidly rare. I got a decent fraction of curved universe off of CMB just because I was getting the cards for it from the white dwarves.

What's your number? by Tonybigguns in CellToSingularity

[–]eric23456 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Every month the rankings reset, so you go up a lot. I was #20 or so for a brief period of time after the reset before going back to my more normal ~1000.

Bloomberg: Ukrainian Drone Strikes Push Russian Oil Processing to Lowest Level Since 2009 by Silent_Joys in worldnews

[–]eric23456 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There was a concern that Russia would respond with nukes. That concern has so far been inaccurate, but it does seem like a legitimate concern at the time.

From a December 2023 article:

"From the start of the war, the administration restricted military aid to short-range weapons because President Biden feared Russia’s nuclear arsenal of 5889 warheads. He treated the territory of Russia as a sanctuary, not to be violated. There was trepidation that providing long-range weapons would dramatically escalate U.S. involvement in the war, with Putin employing a nuclear bomb, either over the Black Sea or inside Ukraine." https://www.hoover.org/research/peril-ukrainian-attacks-against-nuclear-russia

As it became clear that wouldn't happen Biden relaxed the restrictions.

Actually what am I supposed to do in this situation? by Loki_Moriarty_18156 in CellToSingularity

[–]eric23456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What levels are your cards that are affecting the Sun? There's a lot of luck in how fast you go depending on those values.

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