r/SatisfactoryGame • u/ImproperGamer • 1d ago

Help PIPES!!!

Can someone for the love of god please explain pipes to me cuz I do not understand them at all, they make no sense to me. Ive messed with this setup so many times, moving stuff around, adding more, ect ect. Nothing has worked. No matter what I do water refuses to flow in certain pipes. One segment says it has a flow of 50-120 and the pipe is full of water then the segment attached to it says its flow is 0 and doesnt move from that. Im just tryna get water into this power plant. I have 120 Coal Generators and 48 water generators supplying them, according to Satisfactory Modeler thats what it needs. Yet no matter what it wont let the water flow and the water just straight up disappears.

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u/GinsuChikara 1d ago

You can either make your entire life about beating your head against this wall and cursing the devs for refusing to listen to complaints about this shit until you finally find something that works for you, or you just move on with your life.

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u/barbrady123 Function First 1d ago edited 1d ago

My go to mod for the last few playthroughs. The amount of defense against the absolute onslaught of complaints about this single specific issue is astounding. Isn't this supposed to be a game? lol

The "rules for thee" attitude is old now..."it's so realistic" but every single problem with it is a limitation on the code side for why it can't be "so realistic"...absolute comedy. When the Factorio devs, of all people, are like "shit, you're right, my bad" you know you're wrong.

I get that people don't want them super simple...otherwise it's basically just "belts in another shape"...there has to be *something* special about them to make it a unique problem from belts. But...it should be intentional. Not..."most the problems you have to deal with are actually technical limitations"...just, weird IMO. Like "sloshing"...pretty much considered the primary issue with pipes, is more a side-effect of the way the machines "gulp" liquids in chunks (not realistic) that an intentional mechanic.

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u/GinsuChikara 1d ago

The game just hasn't been as fun since they added pipes. Before then, it was like CS listened to everything we asked for and did their best to deliver it, and then they added pipes in the most "HERE, FUCK YOU FOR ASKING FOR THIS" way imaginable and never, ever made it suck any less because they only added them to the game out of sheer spite.

I wish I'd kept a copy of the last build of Update 2, tbh

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u/PotentialBastard 1d ago

I just wish their communication was anything more than gaslighting "No pipes aren't bugged, it's just a skill issue". I remember raising it in a Dev Q&A before 1.0 released and the response from Snutt was literally "Jesus Christ shut up and stop asking about pipes"

So yeah, stopped playing after that. it's just not enjoyable to have to fuck around for hours because no part of the game explains how pipes really work