I've looked through the various guides and FAQs and have played both custom maps and New Hope up to the final push to plastics and the plane, but I'm having some issues with resources running dry before I can scale up enough to get blue chips and bots. I could use some feedback on what I'm doing wrong.
Some lessons I think I've learned:
- blue belts are a bad idea until creating enough chips to get bots helping with scaling up the factory. All my Lube gets consumed by the belts otherwise.
- Don't scale up the bus until I get past bots - it's hard for me to fill 4 lanes of iron or copper, it just wastes resources sitting on belts until I can scale smelting later (bots seem especially useful for scaling up smelting with blueprints). 2 lanes each may be enough for the initial bot push?
- one red chip factory dedicated to blue science seems sufficient for the initial bot research. Don't try to put red chips/blue chips on the bus until I get better throughput of raw materials.
Thanks.