I am too much of a brainlet to enjoy this (2024)

I think it's a game for smart people

some people get too fixated on doing things balanced and efficient right off the bat and so they make the game harder than it should be, and others just don't have the patience to stick with it long enough to launch a rocket, but some are actually too stupid for it. It might not be a hard game but you still need to be at least one step above moronic to complete it

Make it big then work on making it small

This happened to me. The answer is to make more furnace stacks.

To be fair you are mentally moronic and make mountains out of molehills. The only advice I have for you is fuhgeddaboudit.

don't build in grids or modules, build in a line and have your factories branching off perpendicular to that line

Blueprints are great, especially if you make your own. Biters are definitely a pain in the ass but even on default settings you should be able to fend them off easily if you have a military 'budget.' There is definitely catharsis in driving a tank thru a sh*tload of biter nests just because frick em.

>used some blueprints for the early parts of my factory.
More likely that you cucked yourself out of knowledge and understanding.

>>used some blueprints
cringe, either make your own or watch a playthrough since you're so committed to have people play the game for you

yes

1. sterile
2. soulless
3. wasteful on resources (d00d just assemble a metric frickmile of conveyor belts just to move this one intermediate instead of planning things out or making them on-site)
4. gigafrick long belts basically become a buffer which in turn in hide production issues
5. most people who use them don't understand throughput or ratios and think they can slap a balancer and a 4 lanes of steel down and then get confused when things try up
6. boring
7. space inefficient

It's just cookie cutter. Lame, but not as bad as b*ts.

The I that worked for me was to have inserters empty the closest roboports and belt the bots back further away so that by the time they travelled to the damaged wall the fire would be out by then.
Obviously doesn't work if you had multiple waves attacking at once but it's still far better than having 50 bots die trying to repair .000002% damage.

dead job, majority of coders are about to get replaced by AI

>There's nothing more annoying than wanting to reconstruct something than having to deconstruct everything individually...
Just use grenades.

>satisfactory train crossings
these are a gigantic pain in the ass to build, seeing your trains go in 3D is fun but placing rail neatly is really annoying imo

Then go make a satisfactory thread instead of piggybacking on every factorio thread.

elevated rails coming soon in Factorio

Satisfactory kind of sucks, mainly because of how much it railroads you down the path of automation. In Factorio you can automate just about anything with enough ingenuity. Want automated furnaces that you don't constantly have to manually fill with coal but don't have electric furnaces yet? Set up a conveyer system that feeds coal directly from your drills in your coal fields into those furnaces. Want a self sustaining power plant? You can automate that sh*t with a bit of creativity. In Satisfactory there's a lot less room for creativity in terms of that kind of sh*t because there's a lot of restrictions in terms of what can go into what and how.

It would have been faster and more efficient to just run belts instead. Satisfactory trains are garbage.

The game gives you literally 0 reasons to ever build something like this

Yes, you are too stupid. Trains are extremely powerful and allow you to get tons of resources far away back to your main base with ease. And defense is easy later on, especially with upgrades and flamethrower turrets. Biters won't attack train tracks randomly so you don't have to worry about them getting destroyed. You just have to set up defenses for your resource outposts.

what is a companion drone

Don't feel like you need to build two-headed trains for everything. Just make loops.

Trains have the fastest throughput in the game. Creating long sections of train tracks is way easier and faster than long sections of belts between far away resource patches. Trains are also cool.

Trains work better for long distances. Mostly though it's for the modularity, once you get a basic rail network set up it's very easy to expand by placing mini factories along the lines and just setting up the right trains for inputs and outputs

>sell me on trains in autism simulator
Uh.... I don't know how to do that.

and doctors and lawyers.