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Anonymous06/08/25, 20:58No.2062020Factorio - Are you an input or output guy?
Input Focus:
>resource patches get specifically reserved for production
>you designate each iron ore patch to iron plate, gear or steel production
>you don't have to, but you might even build the smelters and assemblers near these patches and ship the product to the rest of your factory
>principially you first figure out your inputs, then you build your output based on that
>I have 6 fully satisfied yellow belts of iron plate, 2 iron gears and one 50% satisfied steel belt, what can I build with my supply?
Output Focus:
>your thought process is to figure out a certain production goal (produce x amount of resources per time unit)
>you build the output you want first and then settle as many resource patches you need to satisfy your demand
>I want another full belt of red circuits, let me set up the production, then get more mines or oil, until I can satisfy the increased demand
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Anon06/08/25, 21:38No.2062051
Uh I just ship stuff to the factory.
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Anon06/08/25, 22:28No.2062094
It was fun to launch the satellite once but I don't really see how people can put 1000s of hours into it. Yeah the production chains get more complex but ultimately there are no meaningful goals to achieve. It would be more interesting if there were enemy factories and you had to out-produce them in an automated war or something.
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Anon06/08/25, 23:03No.2062116
>start game
>put drill on patches
>put smelters nearby
>put further production a little further away
>find new patch
>drills/smelters nearby
>conveyer everything else off to original production area
>expand production if lines are too backed up
>spaghetti ensues
no calculations, all spaghetti.though i mainly play mindustry these days since i like the more tower defense aspect of it.
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Anon06/08/25, 23:10No.2062121
I just restart when I get bored
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Anon06/09/25, 22:19No.2062948
I would say output focus but do no calculations, simply ship as much ore as I can for the foundries to make molten copper or iron.
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Anon06/10/25, 01:24No.2063088
I guess input going by the description. I know just stuffing things inefficiently into the factory is probably best for throughput, but I like it when the factory is compact as possible and runs like a well oiled machine.For example, this setup uses a single belt to input iron and copper in the proper ratios and outputs 1 red, 1 green, 1 inserter, 1 belt, 1 cog, and 1 circuit every two seconds to the same belt, filling up storage at the end of the line.
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Anon06/10/25, 03:46No.2063169
Spaghetti Focus:
>notice something is bottlenecking my factory
>expand it
>notice something is bottlenecking that
>expand it
>notice an imput resource is limited
>build a new mine
>hey now I have a ton of excess iron, I should use that
>steel was bottlenecking me in the past so I'm going to build a huge steel production
>then I can distribute that between the different science types
>now I'm being bottlenecked by red circuit production
>expand it
>now I'm being bottlenecked by green circuit production
>expand it
>now I'm being bottlenecked by raw copper
>build more copper mines
>now I'm being bottlenecked by copper thoroughput
>build an new branch of green circuit production
>now I'm being bottlenecked by iron plates
>divert some from the excessive steel production I set up earlier
>and so on
So output with occasional and erratic changes to input when I'm feeling bold I guess.
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Anon06/10/25, 04:52No.2063190
Where is the busty female engineer retexture with jiggle physics?
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Anon06/11/25, 24:35No.2064383
I want to input my resources into her until a finished product is outputted, if you know what I mean.
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Anon06/11/25, 24:42No.2064395
I'm a splitter guy and I'll demonstrate by splitting your bussy
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Anon06/11/25, 02:21No.2064491
>buy Factorio
>have a lot of fun learning the game
>base is a mess, but it's my mess
>start a new run
>it's less fun because now I'm just thinking about all these chores I have to do to get to the interesting stuff
sad
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Anon06/13/25, 09:21No.2066388
I finally decided it was time to get Lazy Bastard. It was an interesting way to play the game, and it really made me appreciate the flexibility that sushi malls provide. I still handcraft a lot on my main savefile, but the sushi concepts have started to spread throughout my base.
I really hate restarting this game too, burner city is a waste of 20 minutes and I'm decent enough at the game but not quite there yet in rushing bots and fully utilizing them for massive and rapid expansion.
>speaking of massive and rapid expansion, I would the OP if you know what I mean
Past that point though, it's a lot of fun. Interplanetary logistics and quality are really fun to figure out.
My only gripe about this game is how normies cry about biters and insist to newfags to turn them off. IMO they're just another logistics and production challenge into military science, which conveniently, most of these fags decide to skip over. No wonder biters run you over.
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Anon06/21/25, 02:39No.2072945
Space Age completely altered the game into a focus around spaghetti-ing your first factory because you only need to be on Nauvis as long as you want to.
With the rest of the planets and space platforms you basically shouldnt build a mega factory until you can build outposts elsewhere.
This also heavily incentivizes early military science (before blue) which can feel burdensome to start up sometimes because you can build all the fluids stuff for blue long before you actually need black.
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Anon06/21/25, 03:55No.2072988
Resources all get moved near a central resource organizer and introduced when the amount in the designated crates in <X. They then get called on by machines doing their best to auto-balance for surplus, looking at a list of the end items I've demanded. The products get run back to the organizer.
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Anon06/21/25, 09:02No.2073173
>Are you an input or output guy?
Idunno, i just mine everything, put it all in massive AAI warehouses on site with each stops having a sr latch, load it up onto trains, bring it to the main foundry area, the main refinery area or unload onto belt feeding into the 50 lane bus (12 iron 12 copper 6 steel 6 green circuit 4 red circuit 2 blue circuit 4 coal 2 bricks 2 stone, splitters prioritize the bus over the branches, liquids get their own main bus)I don't even think about production goals or production rates, i just overbuild until the main bus has no gaps in it
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Anon06/21/25, 09:03No.2073174
>Puzzle game
>Make a thread about it on the Strategy Board
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Anon06/21/25, 19:22No.2073613
nigga this dichotomy is retarded af
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Anon06/21/25, 23:37No.2073814
i love hating pentapods