Yeah, I don't have any power armor, which may be the main problem here. And that I really, really suck at multitasking. Elsewhere I read that they get stronger (bigger) as the game progresses. I am 18 hours into that game, can that be a reason why they are so tough? Other than that I am a massive fa...

So, after researching most of the tree and implementing all the fancy stuff except trains and logistic robots in my current game, I am facing the dire prospect of running out of iron ore to mine in an hour or two. There is a nice, glitzy deposit with est. 100k ore to the north of my base. Problem is...

That's it. I foolishly clicked on it then steamhammered "R".

I had some trouble rotating that assembler. Maybe I am doing it wrong, but I can't see the pipe entries before placing the assembly, and I can't seem to rotate the placed assembly. I eventually got it the way I wanted it by just placing it and removing it until seemingly randomly it was put down the...

Well, that's unfortunate. There's a barrel, there's some lubricant or light oil or whatever, and there's a Higher Law that forbids to combine them both. :? Knowing precious little when you set up your first oil / blue beaker "line" (more like a convoluted maze) brings with it a constant ne...

Additional questions:

1. Only crude oil can be barrelled, right?
2. Why the heck is that so?

I would really, really, really, really like to get that lubricant elsewhere, but I don't want to lay a jungle of pipes.

Good tutorial! I thumbed you for that one. ;) If I had seen it earlier, the sharp dropoff in oil yield wouldn't have been such a nasty surprise. 8-) That's my whole oil / blue beakers production. You don't actually see any blue beakers, because my oil yield dropped off and my petroleum gas ran out, ...

First oil processing I got started! Woot!! http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk414/Westheim/stuff84_zpscf02af7d.jpg Now for the dumb question. I guess, these oil storage tanks will run full after a while (heavy and light oil), and then the basic oil processing would stop, leaving my battery product...

I'm a guy that likes to talk about his games constantly and this is right now the #2 game for me, behind OOTP Baseball. I'm having a colossal thread going at those forums with my fictional team and the ups and downs (currently downs...). If I'm on it, it's hard to shut me up. :P However, looking at ...

Gee, something things are that simple in this game -.- Yeah, well, six hours into it, going slowly and somewhat thoughtfully: http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk414/Westheim/stuff83_zpsa37c6822.jpg Sciencey stuff is to the north. I guess next up is digging up oil and doing something with that to g...

I'm struggling badly with this as well. Another +1 for having the map view close with ESC.

Thanks guys! One point I have to make is that the turret production was never intended to be there. I just ended up with this lump of iron plates in the spillover chest and slapped two assemblies there. There isn't even copper going into that production. I dumped a few thousand copper plates from an...

Ka-bomf!! Iron plates ate my green science industry! http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk414/Westheim/stuff81_zps4776c09b.jpg This keeps happening... What is an effective way to limit the flow of ingredients into these more complex systems? (Well, the most complex I have tackled so far...) I have ...

Why does the internet have this manic urge to abrv evrth? Js wy? By the way, it's true, excessive abbreviations only make life harder for new guys around. I've browsed quite a few threads since I got the game last week and some of them are hard to read, bordering on incomprehensible. Not helpful. If...

Lesson for today: beware your creation turning against you. I had an array of about a dozen furnaces to smelt iron ore to plates in my last game shown here. It was not enough to keep the inserter assembly at the very end of the production line in supply of iron plates, no matter how many furnaces I ...

Is there actually a way to automatically insert coal into a burner inserter? I find myself running miles and miles and miles early on, especially when my iron, copper, and coal deposits and the furnaces are a bit further apart, to keep everything well supplied with coal, until I finally get electric...

johntarmac wrote:

DanielHall15 wrote:How does everyone get the symbols of what is being produced above the assemblies? I can't get them to show...

'Alt' will do this for you.

Thanks! Much easier to actually build these production lines this way...

How does everyone get the symbols of what is being produced above the assemblies? I can't get them to show... --- Still scrapped the game above because I basically had enjungled myself in a mess of little things that weren't working together. But, I started a new game and after one hour was at least...

That was exactly what the problem was. So I can't utilize the "exit storage" in these machines for the finished products. You live, you learn.

Thanks!!

Hi guys, here comes another noob not able to decide corretly between left and right (that's the feeling the game's been giving me so far...). I fiddled with the demo during this week, and bought the full game today. Now, I've been running around a free map for a few hours now, sloooooowly building u...