Yeppers it was one of those days. I admit that some of my issues are because I want to figure stuff out myself. It's a big part of the fun for me so I don't spend a lot of time in how to play forums etc.
I am finally tackling uranium because solar just can't keep up now that it's time to start launching rockets. I know when building things by hand I should always check my connects, sometimes I miss. I set up a drilling area, got that started and set up an initial 3 centrifuges. I decided to throw some tanks in the piping last minute. I then wandered off to clear a bunch of encroaching biter nests and other tasks anticipating having enough U235 to start to play around with some setups. About 2 hours later I wandered back.... I had ONE. I missed the acid tank connect... DOH!!!!! So much for my plan to play with the uranium..
So.. doing all that running around for biters nests had me riding lots of trains and then trying once again to drive a car. WHY is it so hard to drive. After the above debacle I decided to expand my radar network (I like to completely cover everything with radar). Once again... damn car. I break down and decide to look for an addon that maybe helps with driving the car. I find a post about the difficulty and solutions for it and one was max out exoskeletons. WHAT!!!!!! I mean I figured out that I can use multiples of lots of things... personal lasers, shields etc. After 300 hours played why did it not dawn on me that I could use more than one! DOH!!!!!
Ah well, live and learn.
PS props to https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Nuclear_power perfect amount of information for people like me who want to figure most of it out themselves
