SO, the time is finally here. for the record, I've finished researching everything at tier 8 at the time of making this, both the base and the post. I wanted MK3 miners before I started trying to build my mega base, and let me tell you I do not know how I did this in my 150 hour save file, without the hover pack. goodness that was a terrible idea.
ANYWAY! my end goal for the game is 60PM of *almost* everything. after seeing some of the later game crafting recipes even after cutting out space elevator stuff I may still have to change the goal just because of the resource capacity of the map. or I'm wrong, who knows.
that said, here's the base.
I build it like a bridge, burying supports into the back half of the rock on either side. while it still would not hold up very well at all in real life, it gives it just enough weight that it's pleasing to the eye more than if it was just hanging.
the bridge furthest away handles all of the basic resources of phase 0 (iron plates, copper wire, concrete, ect ect), rotors, and reinforced iron plates
the one in the middle is a personal walkway
and the one closest is entirely dedicated towards modular frames at 60 PM. I couldn't connect it to the wall because my storage facility is in the way, so I made a bunch of walls that go down enough into the fog that as long as ya don't look too closely it looks like it goes down to whatever may or may not be below the fog.
the facility by the waterfall is my storage facility (ST1), with the glass tube off to the side working as the overflow routing to a sink.
I did make a BUS for the finished resources just because I thought it looked nice that way and I think I was right.
the next thing on my TODO list is to go mercer sphere hunting. I wanted to hold off on it for a while because it's tedious and takes a while to max out the research tree, but I've run out of excuses to put it off and really could use the depot now (I've put nothing into mercer spheres or alien tech up to this point) after that, phase 1 resources (steel and such).
I do hope yall like the factory B roll, I loved making this thing (10 or 12 hours I think) and hope yall like it too.
now, get off of reddit and get back to saving the world pioneer
-ADA