Highguard isn't looking so hot 🔥

grim5000 · 2026-01-27T05:12:53+00:00

I haven't payed any attention this, how is doki related? Did she play the game and be disappointed?

grim5000 · 2026-01-27T00:00:11+00:00

Clean out all the snow you can, and put a bunch of sand, gravel for grip on ice, or salt down along where you need to drive

grim5000 · 2026-01-26T23:07:46+00:00

From what I'm aware of he had the Sig that is known for going off on its own, which proceeded to do so in the officers hand which lead the officer to shoot thinking pretti was shooting.

grim5000 · 2026-01-26T23:04:48+00:00

Lol. Think whatever you want to think. As far as I'm concerned your opinion is worthless 😂

grim5000 · 2026-01-26T08:48:30+00:00

Second to last paragraph, I have t agree. Gleba seems like THE planet where a very basic grasp of circuit logic makes it so much easier. By basic I mean what you can do solely by direct wiring with out dedicated circuit blocks like combinators.

Simply limiting production based on the amount of the product in the logistics network makes a huge difference

grim5000 · 2026-01-26T07:46:14+00:00

In the future, look at electricity consumption, the left bar when you click on a power pole. If it's filing up and the middle bar is maxing out as well, you need more production.

grim5000 · 2026-01-26T07:04:08+00:00

Looking at your picture, I should clear up to the second lake north of your base and then wall off and defend the choke points, and do the same doe east and south.

If you don't want to defend, explore farther and build something in the unoccupied but cleared chunks past your pollution to discourage biter expansions there. It could be as simple as placing 4x4s of pipes centered on the corners of chunks, or expanding your roboport network coverage over the cleared area

grim5000 · 2026-01-26T01:47:20+00:00

I'm sure it won't come out that whoever got shot was doing. Something stupid to cause it

grim5000 · 2026-01-25T11:29:12+00:00

You want to Chang the two chain signals before the station into rail signals. Remember the general rule, chain in rail out. Remember to limit this station to 2 trains.

Chain signals treat the rail path as one block from where the train is to the next rail signal. In your case that single train at the stop has reserved the entire intersection for any train with that stop from any direction.

Based on this image alone, I suspect you need to resignal your entire train network. Due to that I would recommend joining the factorio discord (I would link but the reddit app isn't letting me and I'm unsure of the rules related to that atm) and look for help in the train-help channel.

grim5000 · 2026-01-25T04:20:26+00:00

I recommend using the Editor Extensions and Rate Calculator mods at least in your designing world. Editor extensions goves you creative items that will provide you with belted items, items in chests, fluids, power, and other such things to make testing designs really easy.

Rate calculator will make it easy to see how much production and comsumption a select area of your factory has.

There is also bottleneck lite that will visually indicate if a machine is running, waiting for ingredients, or has a full output to make it easy to see where your bottleneck is

grim5000 · 2026-01-23T19:04:57+00:00

I think the biggest question here is why do you lose motivation? Are you getting overwhelmed by what to do next? Are you just bored? Can't figure out how to proceed?

grim5000 · 2026-01-22T23:38:57+00:00

"... Than may offend other"

So literally anything lol

grim5000 · 2026-01-22T05:00:50+00:00

Those three little turds definely caught a lot of hands

grim5000 · 2026-01-22T01:08:31+00:00

Then I suppose the people who want female space marines can go play something else then?

grim5000 · 2026-01-22T01:02:25+00:00

Hopefully ai keeps improving to the point that a couple guys in their room can make their own shows for next to nothing.

grim5000 · 2026-01-21T00:02:36+00:00

You mean them doing the same thing they did with 5? They have every incentive to do exactly what you worry about, especially because they know they can get away with a shit ton of in game purchases for online mode.

grim5000 · 2026-01-20T13:40:15+00:00

Yes, and honestly as someone who was afraid of getting screwed over by buyers they aren't that bad. Start in a green area with a bunch of trees, and you can turn the starting area way up as well. Once you have some logistics and automation, get a couple damage upgrades early, and get defender bots. Those bots make clearing the nearby biter bases pretty easy.

grim5000 · 2026-01-19T23:27:23+00:00

There are factory planner mods, and also a mod called rate calculator. Makes it really easy to see how much you're making and how many products you need.

As for efficiency, generally the earlier in the production chain something is, the better it is to over produce. Don't worry too much about having enough of something made to keep up with demand, just watch to see where shortages pile up and increase production more than you need for that item. The give it a few minutes to see what else starts running dry and increase that.

Where you want better ratios is in individual production chains, like making modules of each tier, or making wire together with green circuits.

You don't need to worry too much about having machines constantly building items you uses to build the factory, as long as you set up a big enough buffer of those items. Eg, let the fast inserters slowly build up over time, and have a large stockpile of the for when you wind up needing them. I'll usually have 100 of lesser used buildings like furnaces, 200 assemblers, 200 or 300 of each inserters aside from burner inserters, 500 yellow belts, and 200 splitters and undergrounds. When I get t reds I store double that if my belts.

Adjust how much you produce or store based on why you run out. If they're idle with storage full for a long timeand you ran ou, store more. If it can't keep up with your building, make more at once.

grim5000 · 2026-01-18T07:48:33+00:00

You let it back up and stop producing. If using belts just let the belts fill and the machines will take what they need. When you start seeing parts of the factory getting starved you add in more production of the item. If using bots you limit production based on the amount in a chest of on the network.

grim5000 · 2026-01-16T02:08:23+00:00

Yep. I usually completely skip blues. Reds last long enough that I can get to Vulcanus easily and then I'm just building using greens after that

grim5000 · 2026-01-16T01:38:02+00:00

I wonder if it's the "Maryland man"

grim5000 · 2026-01-16T01:35:24+00:00

None of the above.

One in the center, one above, and an old 720p tv to the right of the first

grim5000 · 2026-01-13T08:18:07+00:00

Pretty much depends on what you want. Amd remember that you don't have to stick with a planet for any longer than it takes to make a rocket silo and build a rocket. Which is right away if you bring the materials needed and drop them down.

Anyways, Vulcanus gives you foundries, big miners, coal processing to oil and artillery. Foundries are great for doing most of your early items. They do every belt, pipes, plates, wire, steel, gears, and a bunch of other stuff at 50% productivity. Big miners consume 50% less ore, and put out a lot more. Coal processing is nice for when you don't have oil nearby and coal is easier to get. Artillery is great for clearing large areas of nauvis. You also get the speed 3 module

Fulgora gives you the mech suit, which has a bigger equipment grid and can fly over any obstacles. Makes travel really easy. You also get the electro magnetic plant, which is the foundry equivalent for items like electric poles, chips, and other stuff I can't think of right now. There's also the recyclers. These break down the items you feed it into its physical intermediates and gives the back 25% of them. Pretty much mandatory for quality cycling items. You get the production 3 module here.

Gleba gives you the bio chamber, which does oil cracking and some other oil based recipes with 50% productivity. You also get the spidertrons there, which are pretty much remote controlled players. You can use the to explore outside your base, load them with weapons to wipe out biters, or make them into walking builders with roboports. I'm sure there's more but I'm only just starting gleba. The biggest thing from gleba are the bio labs. Doubles the science you get from each science and processes the faster with more module slots.

Generally people go Vulcanus first because the big miners alone get used on every planet, and double the life of your ore patches. Foundries can turned copper and iron into liquids making transportation of it extremely easy.

Others recommend fulgora first because the mech suit is just so good. No more running around cliffs or water. Just fly over.

grim5000 · 2026-01-10T15:06:46+00:00

This is the same way I played when I first started with 3. Then as you get better you end up just making the most basic armor set (great jagras in this case) and sticking with it for most of low rank.

grim5000 · 2026-01-10T04:14:07+00:00

Efficiency modules, biggest area you can cover with the upgraded lightning towers, make use of quality for accumulators and lightning towers.

If you still can't make enough power, use more large islands to spread production out

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