Re: Niggles and nitpicking - player preferences
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 9:26 pm
Automate everything possible. I typically even have a wood line for boxes & small power poles in my factory.
Personal construction bots only. No logistics or bot networks.
No walled in areas. I use independent solar powered turret clusters everywhere. Bugs wont pass them. Mines too, extremely effective mine are.
Private train with private sidings everywhere I need to go. I don't know why everyone doesn't use something like this. Its the only way to get around on a large map.
Everything is solar powered. All the outlying areas have their own power setups. I do have a steam backup in case of solar issues. I hook an alarm to it so I know I need to deal with power troubles.
Basically one big factory setup laid out like a computer bus. Left to right starting with 5 lines. bottom up. Wood, stone, coal, copper plate, iron plate. Each product is built on a vertical line upward and adds its new line to the top of the earlier lines. Pretty soon you have a LOT of lines.
When oil "happens", I add all the different fluid lines just like everything else. Except I space these out some vertically. ONce these are all up and running. Its back to adding belts with products above them.
Everything the factory builds goes from left to right. Except science packs. Science packs stack UNDER (Wood UP going RIGHT are products, wood DOWN going LEFT are science packs) The science cluster is at the beginning of the factory under the belts.
Never done nuclear.
Just started doing multiplayer about two nights ago and found "WOW, people are all doing it way different than me!".
-jim lee
Personal construction bots only. No logistics or bot networks.
No walled in areas. I use independent solar powered turret clusters everywhere. Bugs wont pass them. Mines too, extremely effective mine are.
Private train with private sidings everywhere I need to go. I don't know why everyone doesn't use something like this. Its the only way to get around on a large map.
Everything is solar powered. All the outlying areas have their own power setups. I do have a steam backup in case of solar issues. I hook an alarm to it so I know I need to deal with power troubles.
Basically one big factory setup laid out like a computer bus. Left to right starting with 5 lines. bottom up. Wood, stone, coal, copper plate, iron plate. Each product is built on a vertical line upward and adds its new line to the top of the earlier lines. Pretty soon you have a LOT of lines.
When oil "happens", I add all the different fluid lines just like everything else. Except I space these out some vertically. ONce these are all up and running. Its back to adding belts with products above them.
Everything the factory builds goes from left to right. Except science packs. Science packs stack UNDER (Wood UP going RIGHT are products, wood DOWN going LEFT are science packs) The science cluster is at the beginning of the factory under the belts.
Never done nuclear.
Just started doing multiplayer about two nights ago and found "WOW, people are all doing it way different than me!".
-jim lee
