BlueTemplar wrote: Sun Mar 03, 2019 4:28 pm
(And Modular Armor is even farther than that, because it requires Oil and Red Circuits !)
Right, but if you're going to reach far enough to get a car, it doesn't seem a whole lot harder to just reach for modular armour. It does cost like three times as much, and you need oil, and then you have to research and make modules, but it's
so much better than a car.
And what better choices ? I'm rushing a car(/train) to get oil ASAP, before Blue Biters show up...
Military 2 is the big one, at a mere 20 packs. I don't really have trouble with early biter fights once I have grenades and AP ammo. But I also like to clear a wide margin around my factory before the pollution cloud hits anyone, so my biter fights are
really basic. I do a bunch of them early on, then by the time I need to do more, I'm just stomping around in level 2 power armour with an arseload of energy shields and laser defense. It's not even really fighting, it's just "go stand by the base till it dies."
And I don't
like using turrets, but if I was okay with it they are kind of OP. I keep seeing YouTubers just run straight in and lay down a line of five turrets, then throw a bunch of ammo into them. Base fall down go boom. AP ammo gives that a serious bonus, too. No, idk why personal lasers are fine but turrets aren't, I am weird.
Not all the options are military, either. I have this really big lake on my map and I'm wondering if it might be a good idea to sneak a little manmade island into it with landfill, and put my power station there. And that one-tile chokepoint could be defended with a single turret.
(You can go pretty far without signals though, I went as far as Artillery without even using them, and on RSO! - But I guess that you can also go "pretty far" without undergrounds, splitters and long/filter inserters, as the tutorial has shown !)
I completed my first game with no trains at all. I researched them completely, and put one up, but it didn't work. It would drive manually from one end of the track to the other, but it would only drive automatically to one station and then it couldn't path to the other one. Ever.
I never figured out why; I moved the locomotives around, and moved the stations, and added signals, and tried to put in chain signals, all of which was pointless because it's a straight track with no intersections and neither signals nor chain signals will make anything better. I even tried reading the wiki and watching a bunch of tutorials, but eventually I just pulled it down and didn't try to build another one until I'd already launched the rocket.
I definitely did something stupid, but I will never know what. How do you get a straight track with two stations wrong? I can't even imagine what I did.