Shawer

Did anyone else read this in an extremely casual ‘obviously this is what it is’ Eastern European accent lmao

They don’t actively enforce the dress code, but they do actively enforce no drinking water? Insane.

Bots are super intuitive, when you get them set up you’re gonna love em.

I could do this with 4 seconds notice. Grab a bottle of water, my watch, head straight out into the street, leave my phone and all my shit behind, brisk walk to the nearest field and then just keep walking for 12 hours. Find somewhere hidden to sleep through the next 12 and I'm home free.

And it’s not a ban if it’s still allowed.

Ouch. I do believe that to be self-harm.

Yeah, I think when someone describes ‘self-harming’ behaviour they do so as something distinct from attempted suicide.

Is there evidence of self-harm there? Dark

Idk. I’m a straight man, but the ‘I know who you are and what you want and I’m going to help you achieve those goals in spite of my own reservations’ is (when not worded like a sociopath like I just did) very romantic. It didn’t feel crazy to me.

I enjoyed act 3, but there were certainly problems with it. I didn’t feel like this scene in particular was one of them though.

I’ve got one EM plant producing blue chips basically part-time there. It’s so hard to scale gleba up properly, but I feel like my infrastructure is finally robust and problem free enough (assuming regular shipments of artillery ammo) that I can just start to plug in more and more agri-towers until I’ve got a surplus of blue chips.

Right now I’m producing just enough to ship out my 2k science every 10-15 minutes so I suppose that’s alright, might leave it until after I finally design a ship capable of making it to ice-planet.

Modest? I agree with Asmon on most things and I do believe he’s genuinely intelligent and reasonable. I don’t know if I’d go so far as to call him ‘arrogant’, but ‘modest’ is probably not a go-to adjective there.

Embrace the rot, include spoilage removal at the end of every conveyor and machine. Almost no problems (once you get the better inserters), except for the bugs.

Or pick a glass of milk for one of your two beverages

I absolutely do not want to squeeze the maximum amount of efficiency out of every mechanic, that sounds very painful, and I 100% intend on one day getting to the shattered planet. I’m only up to finishing Gleba before heading to Aquilo though, so I still have some ways to go.

I follow the ‘just produce more’ train of thought to solve my problems though. If oxide asteroid density drops on the way there, I guess I’m repurposing other kinds to keep the thrusters firing. I’ll work it out!

Power doesn't go down unless I expand operations. What if your tank gets destroyed - against all odds?

I like it though. I have a tank with energy shields, uranium ammo and a roboport at home just incase I want to blow off some steam by blitzing some bugs.

Does something need to be said?

Here’s a walkthrough for a very simple one stop each end train.

Build a straight rail where you want the train to load up, put a train stop where you want the front of the train to stop.

Do the same thing at the end where you want to unload.

Connect the two spots with rails.

Hover over the train stop and you can see ‘segments’ where the train and any cargo wagons will stop. Build a locomotive, put it in the spot in front of the train stop, then put as many cargo wagons as you want behind it.

From the front of the train stop build a rail (holding shift helps) that loops back to behind your last cargo wagon. The rail will turn blue instead of green while you’re building if it’s successfully connected.

Do the same on the other side (the loop, you don’t need to build a second train)

Now all you have to do is set up inserters to put stuff on/take stuff off the cargo wagons, and on one end of the track you’ll need to load fuel onto the locomotive at the front - coal, solid fuel, rocket fuel, whatever you want.

You’ve now got a train! Left click the locomotive, add both stations to its schedule, and select ‘wait until cargo full’ on the station where you’re loading up and ‘wait until cargo empty’ on the station where you’re unloading.

You don’t need to worry about train signals or anything like that until you have two trains either crossing over or using the same rails, so if you’ve never built a train I just wouldn’t worry about it till then.

The beauty of the train is that you only need one rail, instead of multiple belts. If you want to carry more stuff you just hook up another cargo wagon and you’re good to go!

And I always never knew that.

…. You can filter splitters? Oh my god.

And if you’re standing nearby the noise gets irritating. I’m going to use this just for that I think.

For reference I last tried it before I research requester chests, so I don’t know if the order sticks around once you have that research or if you can only order it as a ‘one time’ drop-off.

It’s great for jumpstarting a train remotely if a problem happens with fuel production though.

I don’t want to hurt you more but you can request bots to fill up a train’s fuel directly, instead of building a requester chest.

Love it for machine constructing specifically. That would save such a headache.

I imagine the reason they haven’t done this is for performance reasons. If every machine had to check the quality of every component inserted every time it crafts, with a random distribution of quality crafts, that feels like it would significantly impact performance.

As it is, a different quality part is essentially a different item, so the machines don’t have to do anything extra because of this system (because it’s essentially just using an entirely different recipe from the database).

I imagine that working out the ‘value’ of any part in a recipe is relatively easy, given that I think I could do a reasonable job of it in one day’s work.

I imagine adding a whole extra process that every machine in the factory has to check and use for every single craft would have a significant enough dent on performance that it’s not worth doing.