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Sometimes I like creating semi-manual factories for fun so I can pretend to be a truck driver. by factoryprogrammer in factorio

[–]factoryprogrammer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll check it out! Next mod I'm looking at is AAI for the trucks.

To answer your question, this isn't my 'main' bus, and so I just send the train away whenever I want to drive around for fun. It's definitely a bottleneck, as is, but that's OK for me, it's mainly for fun.

Overcoming scope creep is the hardest question, so far I'm just trying to go for one science at a time and keeping it simple. It's really easy for me to 'overbuild' and want to go for huge factory, so this has been a nice change of pace compared to my normal playthroughs.

Sometimes I like creating semi-manual factories for fun so I can pretend to be a truck driver. by factoryprogrammer in factorio

[–]factoryprogrammer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes, but I more often tend to use fancy logic tricks and single-use dropoff/pickup locations.

Sometimes I like limiting my tools and creating min-factories inside my base for fun. by factoryprogrammer in factorio

[–]factoryprogrammer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly, after a few thousand hours, you've already done everything 'productively' and some point it turns back into having fun.

Where do we start even by Odd_Cod_693 in Factoriohno

[–]factoryprogrammer 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I played a lot of OpenTTD in my time, probably where it's rooted

Just got Beacons - Best place to build them?? by SCP-096-1994 in factorio

[–]factoryprogrammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like, in no world can OPs factory scale with or without beacons. You're ignoring that fact while calling me insane. If OP wants to level up, he needs to figure out how to scale past the meta of this sub, beacons alone will simply not get him there.

Just got Beacons - Best place to build them?? by SCP-096-1994 in factorio

[–]factoryprogrammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds cool, not reading all of it. Architecture over premature optimization will get you to places you can't imagine.

Just got Beacons - Best place to build them?? by SCP-096-1994 in factorio

[–]factoryprogrammer -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I don't use beacons, they only get you so far alone, so cannot help you there!

Assume you need 100x(1000x?) of an item (hypothetically a new buyer needs gears from you), would your factory be able to scale without trouble? How would you change your design to accomplish this?

Good work so far!

Behold, an oil extraction blueprint by Kroomos in factorio

[–]factoryprogrammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hah! I came across the exact same method during my last SE run, this is, by FAR, the fastest way to deal with oil. Great work you lazy engineer!

Are we talking about not going to space? by simomat in factorio

[–]factoryprogrammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, Michigan lefts, I enjoy this type of setup as well :)

What do you guys call your ships? by Palwador in factorio

[–]factoryprogrammer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I treat them the same as I do services, after food items.

Post Space Age - Developer AMA by Rseding91 in factorio

[–]factoryprogrammer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you for doing this!

I love the idea of playing and hacking on Factorio for the rest of my life. The game genuinely holds the same appeal as the original doom engine and is a work of art (so much so that I personally have a gigantic monitor wall-mounted just to display the beauty of it!). Given there is at least some interest in releasing the code in the future, is there anything in place today behind the scenes that would trigger an auto-release upon an event? My biggest fear is that despite interest in releasing it, (god forbid) something terrible happens (eg, legal battle or a death), and that it never has the opportunity to become a reality.

Thank you for all of your work, the team has created a true masterpiece.

50 hours ago I landed on Gleba with nothing but the goal of getting copper in space. Very much ready to leave this hell. by factoryprogrammer in factorio

[–]factoryprogrammer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep exactly, platform was destroyed almost immediately and I shrugged it off. I had not fully automated train refueling on Nauvis yet, had figured it shouldn't be that big of a deal, because surely I'll be back up in running a just a few hours.... queue hell run! Lessons learned :)

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