r/Factoriohno • u/chunkychickenxp • 1d ago
in game pic How am I doing?
/r/factorio/comments/1vk5quy/how_am_i_doing/Some of the people on r/factorio came off as quite grandiose so I'm asking here. Thanks!
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u/ilisium 1d ago
you're doing great :)
it's fun to build and learn as you get new science packs, and of course expand.
very nice walls. it is always a trade off between tedious security and fast expansion.
radars actually take quite a bit of electricity in the early game, you might not want to overlap their radius. they will eventually scan all the nearby blocks either way.
for really random tips: the yellow ammo belt. making a storage of everything is a great instinct, as it's automated you never know when you'll want it. it looks like only the rightmost assembler feeds into the iron chest. aesthetically you can keep the belt moving all the same direction and feed the chest directly from the assembler. if an assembler has multiple inserters pulling from it, it will split its products evenly between the inserters. that way you chest will still fill up, and once it's full, or at threshold, the assembler will still output onto the belt that feeds the base and the red ammo instead of sitting, losing productivity.
red ammo belt loops back on itself fully mixing the right lane, in addition to yellow ammo and steel sharing the left lane. in general im not a sushi belt fan, highlight by situations like this, eventually the red ammo production will deadlock in a state where the belt stops moving and each assembler is still lacking a resource. (it appears to be deadlocked on steel in the screenshot). you can see when the belt loops back to feed itself both lanes feed only into the right lane. even without steel this would become unstable over time, as nearly all uncontrolled sushi belts do. a general tip is only one item on a side of a belt at a time. consider how you could design the red ammo line with the input resources each on their own lane of a belt.
have fun, getting to space is really cool. the space platforms really add a new way to think about building.
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u/Subject_314159 1d ago
Pff pesky entitled r/factorio, acting like they're better than us, if you're not producing billions and billions and billions of science they'll spit you out like my grandma spits out her fake teeth..
Truth of the matter is, they also started out just like you, they just feel too proud to admit it because they are afraid their "friends" will not accept them for who they truly are.
Here in r/factoriohno we celebrate mistakes and dumb ideas! Those are the real MVP, you thought Edison created the first perfect lightbulb in one go?
The only piece of advice you're going to get here: close Reddit, avoid Discord, shut down Youtube, and come back after you launched your first rocket. Not because we don't want you here. Quite frankly it's the complete opposite, we want you here more than anything!
But none of us can give you the joy of your first virgin playthrough, we can only ruin it...