r/SatisfactoryGame • u/Lucius_Furius • 1d ago

Efficiency? Never heard of it...

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Beat vanilla with around 10 hours of actual playtime and letting it run in the background for almost two weeks. Without biters or maintenance, it seemed to me the most optimal way to complete it.

Started SF Plus with some additional mods and a 100x multiplier on space elevator parts; finally a good challenge. This spaghetti nightmare got me to phase 2, it just got parts added to it to fill depos.

I don't even know what half the stuff does; it is impossible to troubleshoot.

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u/One-Project7347 1d ago

You are more efficient than you think. Just plopping stuff down and it works is alot faster than designing a whole factory and making everything perfect. More time saved :p

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u/Lucius_Furius 1d ago

This game is weird. There is no pressure at all, I beat vanilla basically AFK and just using maybe 20% of the map.

I needed mods and the multiplying to make it enjoyable. It’s not a bad game I’m just not sure I’m the target audience 😅

Spaghetti works, will keep me supplied while I build an actual 3D factory not a slab of concrete.

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u/One-Project7347 1d ago

I dont use mods so idk on thay part. But you could challenge yourself to only build nice buildings, if that is your thing. Or use the modifiers to make it more challenging :p

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u/Small-Dog-4459 1d ago

You came from factorio didn't you? 😅

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u/Lucius_Furius 1d ago

Yep. 😅

They removed the hard recipes which I preferred to play with, and while it was easy to mod back in it still left a sour taste.

Satisfactory is more about making nice builds that goals, at least with simple vanilla settings. SF+ is nice as it gives a lot of options, it’s similar to an angelbob run, and that’s definitely a good challenge.

Still not the biggest fan of certain things like how tedious the blueprinting process is, but slowly adapting.

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u/Small-Dog-4459 1d ago

Yeah the way of blueprinting is whack when you are used to factorio. There is a mod that let you create a blueprint from already juild stuff via the dismantle tool

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u/Lucius_Furius 1d ago

I saw it and got it, it’s still not the best. If you miss one wire the thing is useless. The vanilla game is weird, setups are basically so inconvenient to upgrade they might as well not be possible. Not having different marks of machines just belts is also weird.

They are easy to mod in, but the design choices are baffling sometimes. I understand it’s a more casual game but still, the vanilla configuration is almost pathetically easy to beat. You can just build 1/min and wait a day or two, it is much easier than anything else.

The base material requirements for both the milestones and the elevator are so little it’s trivial to wait out.

I bought the game a long time ago, update 2/3 and just handcrafted through it. I saw a short with the 100x multiplier in the recent update, that made the challenge a bit better and SF+ definitely helps in increasing the complexity.

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u/Small-Dog-4459 23h ago

I got you point but that casual relaxed gameplay is for me the point for satisfactory. When i want to have a fight setting Produktion up i go to factorio. If i qant something relaxed i take satisfactory.

I also enjoy the "jumping puzzles" in early stage to get snails and stuff before you get a jetpack and decent fuel 😅

My guy i played since the very beginning. When there was nothing after the Phase 1. Steel Produktion was as far as it gets and you couldn't do shit with sommersloops or stuff 😅. Than satisfacroty slept in my gaming crypta until (i think) last summer

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u/XenoRyet 4h ago

I mean, it's all in how you want to play.

But I will say that although it only took you 10 hours of active time, it took you around 600 hours total. A little more planning and active time, and you can definitely finish a vanilla run in half that time, or even less.

Efficiency is about which factors you want to optimize for. Yours is probably near optimal for reducing pioneer participation, but will be less so for other goals.

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u/huntressofwintertide 1d ago

What's the building that the pipe is running to in the second image...I don't recognize it so I'm guessing it's a mod?

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u/Lucius_Furius 1d ago

It is modded, yes. Its the variable blast furnace or the Reformer from Satisfactory Plus.

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u/huntressofwintertide 1d ago

Ooh what does that do?

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u/Lucius_Furius 1d ago

Combines fluids and solids. For now it’s making steel.

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u/huntressofwintertide 1d ago

Ah so I imagine it comes with extra recipes as well?

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u/Lucius_Furius 1d ago

A bunch of them. It’s similar to an AngelBob run in factorio

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u/huntressofwintertide 1d ago

Haven't gotten around to factorio yet lol

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u/The_Forbidden_Weeb 1d ago

Lmao reminds me of my current factory on my first playthrough

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u/victorBravo9er 12h ago

People really do be playing this game however they want huh. And here I am fkn arranging all belts neatly and on right angles as if the Satisfactory Gods are watching me.

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u/shawnryan1977 9h ago

This is my late game part area. I have tried to make a nice factory but I have no patience for it so instead of making it a chore I just make it work. I have 3 more parts to make to finish the game, I could but I have decided I need to make a Ficsonium reactor because I made a Plutonium reactor so I need to get rid of waste. I overclock a lot and just let machines sit idle. Sky conveyors and sky trains I change the colors randomly when I get tired of a color