CDR's Learning Cascade (First shenanigans in Factorio.)
Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 11:51 pm
Let's start off with the second campaign's Train Level. First thing I did, cannibalized everything, and I do mean everything. The main base, the solar sub station, the copper mine and the iron mine. There wasn't a constructable building left standing. Using all the materials and structures gathered this way, I built a reasonably defensible base. Eventually I ran out of Copper and Iron burning through any Tier 1 and Tier 2 research. By then the game wanted me to amass materials in my jeep, (still had the original by means of extreme stubbornness), and so I set out for the iron mine since I still had an abundance of copper plates. Which brings us to my first picture:
Two or three levels later, and we have a forest, desert, and dead forest map with three lakes forming some decent walls around my base. A long winded bit of exploring, some murdered worms, and some crashed ship pilfering, and I had enough stuff to level a few biter bases, as well as build a nice laser defense. Not that it really mattered though, with the three closer, smaller bases gone, the huge group to the north just didn't give a ****. Eventually I got to this point:
Each ore field, (coal, copper, iron), has at least one splitter at its output to make sure its distribution was even. Pulling out all three of them brought the facility down. 8 pumps, 112 boilers, and 80 steam engines eventually ground themselves to a screeching halt. Getting the base back up and running on its own at this point requires disconnecting everything but the solar array, coal mine, and steam engines. And only then could start back up during the day. I'll have pictures of the new research facility once its finished.
I think I bought the game Thursday night or Friday sometime. Don't remember how long it took me to burn through the 'tutorial' campaign, or the previous levels. I do know that by the point of my fourth picture, I had spent somewhere between 5-10 hours on this map.
By the way, there's still room within the old facility for a few more assemblers, though I don't know what I'd have them make. And even going full tilt, the gear production for the Tier 1 research was able to supply the entire facility you see here. I mean seriously, I kept adding **** all over the place and I just couldn't run out of resources!
So just how well do you all think I grasp the concepts of Factorio? Common comment! Give me your craziest grading scales!
Overkill
Glorious isn't it? Enjoy it while it lasts though. Second picture:
Burn Baby Burn
3 rows of 20 Stone Furnaces each. Didn't bother trying to tote the coal I needed to smelt it. Just annexed the nearby coal field into my fuel supply. The copper field to the east went next.
Two or three levels later, and we have a forest, desert, and dead forest map with three lakes forming some decent walls around my base. A long winded bit of exploring, some murdered worms, and some crashed ship pilfering, and I had enough stuff to level a few biter bases, as well as build a nice laser defense. Not that it really mattered though, with the three closer, smaller bases gone, the huge group to the north just didn't give a ****. Eventually I got to this point:
Ore Fields, Laboratories, Smelters, Red Science, Gears, Green Science, Green Circuits, Yellow Inserters, Yellow Conveyors, Copper Wire, in that order.
Shortly before this point I started working on a larger facility solely focused on research. After the picture I realized my error and switched the Red Inserter assembler to Blue Inserters, and then added a Tier 2 Assembler assembly chain:
Full Stop
You would not believe how annoying it was to get a closed mini loop going for the T1 & T2 Assemblers so they could share resources. It was madness!
Each ore field, (coal, copper, iron), has at least one splitter at its output to make sure its distribution was even. Pulling out all three of them brought the facility down. 8 pumps, 112 boilers, and 80 steam engines eventually ground themselves to a screeching halt. Getting the base back up and running on its own at this point requires disconnecting everything but the solar array, coal mine, and steam engines. And only then could start back up during the day. I'll have pictures of the new research facility once its finished.
I think I bought the game Thursday night or Friday sometime. Don't remember how long it took me to burn through the 'tutorial' campaign, or the previous levels. I do know that by the point of my fourth picture, I had spent somewhere between 5-10 hours on this map.
By the way, there's still room within the old facility for a few more assemblers, though I don't know what I'd have them make. And even going full tilt, the gear production for the Tier 1 research was able to supply the entire facility you see here. I mean seriously, I kept adding **** all over the place and I just couldn't run out of resources!
So just how well do you all think I grasp the concepts of Factorio? Common comment! Give me your craziest grading scales!
