I beat Space Age, but wanted more Factorio. Tried several mods like Seablock and Pyanodon, but they are rather advanced. I pretty much have one playthrough of vanilla, and one playthrough of Space Age.

In this case I recommend to forget about SE until it will be ready for 2.0 and you will have ...

Eh, I would not say that there is any sort of consensus of course, or "people drop the game because of gleba", that would be absurd/in bad faith, imo as well.
I just find it interesting to observe, that there is indeed an observable difference between the planets.

No one say that Gleba is the ...

Inn any case, this is all meaningless. My comparisons in the previous post are 100% valid because this represents the people invested in the game enough to visit a planet, and the proportion of those completing said planet. 28% simply gave up on gleba, this is not true of the other planets, even ...

but you have to admit, one planet solely responsible for stopping over a quarter of players from finishing the game says there's just objectively problems with it.

There is lie, big lie and statistic in service of liers. Let me lie in your way. We can see that only 5% of players have visited ...

In case A), the player will probably be completely overrun by medium stompers because he doesn't have artillery, and in case B) the player will just be laughing off the enemies as they splatter instantly to even machine gun fire.

Because of this, Gleba's evolution kinda doesn't serve any ...

Burn the spoilage on Nauvis but keep the Agricultural Science pack production line running non-stop on Gleba. In theory, it might appear to be a viable solution until I look at how much resources were spent moving those Agricultural Science packs to Nauvis. To be more specific, keep launching ...

burninghey wrote: Sun Jan 19, 2025 5:13 pm Sorry for necro'ing old thread, but it's still missing.

You can use any text field for it. Was introduced in https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-388

My issue is that Gleba breaks a few of the fundamental rules that make the game enjoyable, the most important being that nothing ever goes bad. Which enables you to stop your factory at any moment, change stuff, reenable it and it keeps going exactly where you stopped it.

Really? Let me say ...

Productivity modules are required/strongly recommended for Gleba's bootstrap/backup AM3 processing fruits into seeds.

Nope. You will have thousands of excess seeds, just don't burn all of them, it is matter of single logic condition. Not counting that only backup with assembler is for spoilage ...

Other posts covered the big ticket items on prod modules (smaller factory, more efficient with finite resources) but here's a concrete use case.

You hypothetically have 10 holmium ore per second. Doesn't matter how infinite holmium is or isn't. You just have this much per second and for whatever ...

By "wasting resources" I'm not talking about voiding ingredients like what happens with the recycler, but rather the mass of unwanted crafts from getting quality stuff. Like if you want rare exoskeletons without the recycler, @ 10% quality, you'd need to make on average 100 normal crafts to get 1 ...

I don't think unlocking Epic quality is a good reward at all until you have the recycler and/or T3 quality modules.
If you go to gleba first hoping to get Epic quality stuff, you are stuck with (at max) Epic T2 quality modules that give 3.8% quality. Not the worst

Alternative is rare T3 that ...

There are enough mods improving enemies in very different and interesting ways. And of course there are even more mods improving arsenal. If you think that your idea is better than all of them then create your own mod.

NineNine wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 10:39 pm Flamethrowers are in the same boat: they should work great against the big stompers

Just try them with editor.

Your math looks correct to me. (In detail, it's effectively producing two eggs on the first cycle and then four eggs on the second cycle, but that averages out to producing three on each cycle.)

But it is not. Try to apply the same logic to kovarex process and you will get very wrong result. See ...

how would my experience in Space Age be, knowing what parts of the base game I enjoyed most? Particularly, is the late-game more engaging and rewarding, and is the endgame with a megabase going to be more interesting for me?

I think you will enjoy SA. SA is about solving new puzzles and finding ...

I don't think you understand the concept of game balance.
Like for a game to be balanced, some things can be better than others, but shouldn't be too much better.
The basic idea here, is that with a recycler to lose 75% of stuff every pass, so after 3 passes there's only 1.5% of the original ...

I've played a lot of Factorio over the years... to make flamethrower turrets
"Why, Mr. Anderson?, Why, why?. Why do you do it?"

Has this happened to anybody else? Has anybody else had to leave Gleba to return to fight another day?
Yeah, this has happened to other experienced players. Experience ...

Any propulsion allows to reach any sublight speed.
Not without a swing-by manoeuvre. Especially jet propulsion can normally only reach the speed of its jet.

Are we talking about reality or factorio drag in space? In reality you can even throw stones in one direction and with every stone you ...

It unlocks after bioflux. It requires bioflux to work and push player in right direction. Exactly the same for nutrients receipts. And close to oil and uranium processing in base game. Your suggestion just break pattern and leave player with recipe he can't use. Bad idea.