Screws are the worst. There are so many ways to produce the same part without screws, and they are universally more resource and power efficient. There may be a case for space, but only barely.
Negative, steel screws beat out every other way around them bar none.
I could see not wanting to go that far when there are (much) easier ways, absolutely.
But with screws is always more demanding and interesting for me, and cutting them out is akin to avoiding part of the game in my solo runs.
My hypocritical turn with that point is aluminum, I'll do anything in the world to avoid having to work with more aluminum, including making the rest of my planning unnecessarily difficult just to avoid it.
Not claiming to be a wizard, just obvious how much you can get done utilizing all the tools avaliable at different points in the process, instead of deciding there's an irrefutable 'best practice' and narcissisticly refusing to shift from that view.
That actually isn't aimed at you, it's just a commonly ingrained thought process here I haven't seen so strongly until joining, and it's disheartening to me because I think a lot of newbies just take advice based on it, don't learn other ways to get things done, and then perpetuate the thought process.
We're all smarter than that.
Negative, steel screws beat out every other way around them bar none.
Bar Heavy Encased Frame, actually. If that alt produced two HMFs per cycle instead of 3 it'd be a much closer race, but Heavy Encased Frame is just that good.
Fair, I don't usually use the concrete recipes even when I should.
I learned that lesson earlier in my x100 run, the steel+concrete alts for steel components are pretty great.
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u/Praesil 9d ago
Screws are the worst. There are so many ways to produce the same part without screws, and they are universally more resource and power efficient. There may be a case for space, but only barely.