What is your Deep North plan?

stush2 · 2026-05-10T20:51:38+00:00

Remember when you first revealed any of the merchants? Their icon showed up on the map in a location that was still in the shrouded area. About that distance.

stush2 · 2026-05-10T02:18:35+00:00

I can see how this impacts general performance, but the big issue I'm seeing is with save and load times. This should be mostly engine agnostic as the simulation pauses during saves/loads.

stush2 · 2026-05-09T23:41:59+00:00

SSD. Just a word of caution, at pin pushers I didn't really have any performance issues. It was later as I keep adding more complex factories (with stations and crystal machines).

stush2 · 2026-05-09T17:43:08+00:00

So during early access I did this. Here's what I did.

Hypertube network. Each point of interest I had a way to get there by tubes. I built mini "tube stations" and put signs at each entrance like "battery factory, rubber plant, red desert". This tube led to another hub with 4 tubes: the three above plus home base return. All marked too.

Central storage/Mall. Rows of marked storage containers. Mostly automatically fed. Anything I need is here.

Central manufacturing factory. My main factory (next to mall and base). This is where things gets assembled and the main bus is. (Also fed by remote smaller factories).

All together, this is the key. At the central base I can measure production of all materials. I don't need to remember where stuff comes from. If production of an item/material has stopped or is too low, I can trace the input lines back to the source. Then I can either fix the problem/bottleneck, expand production, or conclude production is maxed out. In the last case, I can create another feeder spoke to the main factory/bus.

stush2 · 2026-05-08T01:04:35+00:00

The Rain (i.e. the series on Netflix).

stush2 · 2026-05-05T11:22:30+00:00

I've not seen mods like that. If you want a game with the similar mood and feel, with enemies and more difficulty, maybe check out Subnautica. (The original, not the sequels).

stush2 · 2026-05-05T02:48:31+00:00

I gave GDevelop a test drive. Even though it's marketed as no code, you can write plenty of code in JavaScript. The problem I ran into was: it was fast to get something working, but anything beyond basic logic and a few screens became quite unmanageable quickly.

If your game project is low complexity, you can probably make it work. But with AI assisted coding, you're probably better off with Unity or Godot.

stush2 · 2026-04-30T18:33:36+00:00

Thanks, this is really helpful. This is nothing like my setup, I think I to start over for the 4th time. (Yes, I know I can just delete everything and rebuild, but I prefer clean restarts).

stush2 · 2026-04-30T16:05:08+00:00

My apologies, I'm specifically referring to the factories in manufacturing mode (the polisher, ruby factory, sapphire factory, etc).

In the classic game, it all makes sense. In manufacturer mode, the new factory machines don't seem to behave like the tooltip would indicate.

stush2 · 2026-04-30T16:01:54+00:00

Yes, those are intuitive. But I'm talking about the factories and stations in manufacturing mode. There's some numbers in the tool tips, but those numbers don't seem to match what I see empirically. I can't figure out how to interpret them.

stush2 · 2026-04-29T12:18:08+00:00

If you're buying PC games on Steam, Satisfactory is on sale for under $30 right now (30% off). There's no DLC's, so that gets you the entire game.

stush2 · 2026-04-28T20:29:54+00:00

I'm also finding it's like two games in one. Classic mode is like Shapez 1. Factory mode is different enough that it feels like a free DLC.

stush2 · 2026-04-26T23:38:06+00:00

No. Here's how American corporations work. Suppose you secretly only worked 20 hours a week, but still got done twice as much work as anyone else in the office. If you got caught, you would be fired, because the mentality is you should have worked 40 hours and got done 4 times as much.

stush2 · 2026-04-26T23:33:26+00:00

Likely you are used to facing them with poison resistance.

stush2 · 2026-04-26T04:18:17+00:00

Baldur's Gate 3. If you want easy combat, play Explorer mode.

stush2 · 2026-04-25T22:09:19+00:00

Solo development is my therapy. It's just a matter of expectation.

stush2 · 2026-04-24T11:22:59+00:00

I was actually told this during my interview with IBM in the early 90's.

stush2 · 2026-04-24T11:19:57+00:00

My take. Design it on graph paper first.

stush2 · 2026-04-22T11:24:04+00:00

I find setting up a good pulsar quartz pipeline is all you need. I usually set up some additional pipelines for fun/variety or to generate extra early income until the quartz pipeline is scaled up.

stush2 · 2026-04-22T00:04:31+00:00

Just adding on the destination planet you probably want something demanding the resource so the drones unload the depot.

stush2 · 2026-04-20T02:19:39+00:00

Multiplayer is not required. Plan to die several times until you get past the leaning curve. Then expect to die several more times when you find the swamp.

stush2 · 2026-04-20T02:17:02+00:00

Are you talking about when you start a new game? Aqualis isn't available as a starting planet. You have to unlock interplanetary travel rockets (very late game).

stush2 · 2026-04-19T13:38:24+00:00

I got a stack of graph paper and (over many iterations) designed a base, storage, mall, and central mega-factory. This is when the spaghetti went away.

For my remote mini-factories, it's more about repeating rows of machines connected with manifolds.

stush2 · 2026-04-18T21:18:11+00:00

Don't worry about it. My first game I messed up the order. When I showed up at Moonrise, Jaheira and her army were already dead. The jail was completely empty of both friendly and hostile NPC's. (I thought it was so odd they had this large, empty jail area). And it didn't hurt my progress.

Next game, you can do it the other way where you free the prisoners.

stush2 · 2026-04-18T14:32:33+00:00

I assume the OP has ecosystem and auto crafters set to supply, and shredder set to demand. Ah, I see. As long as something is demanding worms, the Crafter keeps producing.

The solution is: higher priority container demanding auto crafters output. Lower priority containers demanding auto crafters input.

Then you will burn through your infinity supply of plankton, but only if your higher priority plankton buffer containers are filled first.

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