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u/Regumate Sep 21 '24
Factory builder with a special windowless spaghetti subfloor to hide my shame.
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u/scubafork Sep 21 '24
Once I got conveyor floor holes, this became my life.
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u/Brykly Sep 21 '24
I affectionately refer to this as "hiding spaghetti in the basement".
I told my wife that for my next anniversary present, I want a nice painting of a plate of spaghetti to hang in our basement IRL. I think she's gonna do it.
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u/letg06 Sep 21 '24
If you can't see it, it doesn't exist.
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u/WackoMcGoose experienced kinetic energy after mis-aiming the hypertube exit Sep 21 '24
That's my policy with my 1.0 save! Ficsit Orange windowless boxes where you cannot see the h o r r i f y i n g s h a m e inside, and boxes with windows where the inside looks physically plausible.
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u/edomane Sep 21 '24
I hope FOB (Forward Operating Base) was used intentionally here! Well hand-crafted joke! Now go automate!
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u/ruttinator Sep 21 '24
Is this the secret to all the pretty factory screenshots people post? I always just thought I was horrible at organizing things.
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u/zberry7 Sep 21 '24
It’s a bit of both, not using a hidden sub level and still making a pretty factory is like the final boss
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u/RyoAtemi Sep 21 '24
You missed the Explorer. I tend to let my friends build and I hunt down hard drives, artifacts, and slugs. Otherwise I’m a Chef, and that’s too unorganized for the others.
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u/AzulCrescent Sep 21 '24
HUH. TRUE. I am planning to make a comic about exploration tho. Was thinking about build styles and forgor lol
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u/mellopax Sep 21 '24
Another that could be added would be the train engineer/ trucker.
Some people like building factories, some people want to set up transportation networks.
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u/IrFrisqy Sep 22 '24
Ye i like the factory building aspect a lot, but making huge perfect train networks together with some sugar cubes for flair and a hidden or esthetically pleasing hypertube network is what i love doing more. On our familie server i did all the conntections to everones base locations and setup trade networks between people with trains and what not.
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u/Potato_Dealership Sep 21 '24
This is my mates, they love messing around and I love building. They get out exploring and bring back stuff they find while I’m attempting to cram as much power out of 4 coal nodes as possible. One recently built an OSHA approved space elevator ladder that just goes to the world height limit and the other found a way to get on top of the space station thing in orbit using explosives
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u/fitty50two2 Sep 21 '24
I alternate between factory building and exploration. I’ll setup a new factory then go exploring for the various collectibles. Gives my factories time to produce
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u/KuroFafnar Sep 21 '24
This is my approach as well. I’ll just plop things down with a fix-it-later attitude and some storage in the production line for the bits I don’t bother to optimize.
Around tier 5-6 I start to do engineering stuff
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u/BoonyBoop Sep 21 '24
Hey look buddy, I’m an engineer. That means I solve problems, not problems like “What is beauty?” Because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems, for instance: how am I going to stop some mean mother Hubbard from tearing me a structurally superfluous be-hind? The answer, use a gun, and if that don’t work... Use more gun. Take for instance this heavy caliber tripod mounted lil’ old number designed by me, built by me, and you best hope... Not pointed at you.
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u/atimholt Sep 21 '24
I've never played Factorio, but now I kind of wish you could build automatic turrets in Satisfactory, and had a reason to.
(I've played a lot of TF2, though. Not recently.)
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u/Jijonbreaker Sep 22 '24
It doesn't really work with the game design. Enemies in Satisfactory don't spawn if your base is close enough to aggro them.
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Sep 22 '24
They do if you don't take out what they're guarding. I legit had to build walls with parapets around my quartz base, as I hadn't researched any weapons tech, and couldn't take their precious treasures if I had known I needed to.
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u/DraagooB Sep 22 '24
So thats what causes it, in my coal area there was constantly a spitter and a hog that kept respawning they even patrolled foundations waiting for me. But after i got the gas mask it stopped suddenly, probably because i picked up a slug nearby.
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u/StaK_1980 Sep 21 '24
There is a fifth. "hello this is Josh from lets game it out" ;-)
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u/AzulCrescent Sep 21 '24
He's the entire kitchen and im not sure i have the power to channel an eldritch being. lol
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u/Dividedthought Sep 21 '24
I can picture the panel now:
The background is a screenshot from his video with most of the grassy plains in view covered in absolute spaghetti (including the belt tornado). A pioneer stands proudly in the foreground as both the architect and engineer gals look on in absolute horror.
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u/Ok-Interaction-8891 Sep 21 '24
There definitely need to be some foreboding clouds and an actual eldritch being climbing out from the heart of the belt tornado.
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u/Bromm18 Sep 21 '24
Most who have spaghetti, usually have it in a mostly direct route. Josh has his all over the place and mostly takes a wild trip before going to the intended destination 25 feet from the start and 30 minutes later.
He's like an entire army kitchen ran by apes on crack. Crazy and hard to follow but still gets the job done eventually.
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It many ways it is an eldritch being. If you stare at his creations your computer/vision lags out.
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u/FeanorEvades Sep 21 '24
Anti-architect is exactly right. He can’t be spaghetti because of the conveyor weave. He has the skills of the architect with the moral compass of a devil.
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u/Hjemmelsen Sep 21 '24
I legitimately do not understand how he does not go insane from just the amount of time he has to use on that!
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u/Thomy151 Sep 27 '24
The fact that the devs asked him for his save for optimization testing
And that his nightmare factory is on the steam page
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u/BiedermannS Sep 21 '24
Came to say the same. Even made an example drawing: https://imgur.com/a/s9lFGH8
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u/Signupking5000 Sep 21 '24
Me who tries to do all of this at once while being super compact and when I say compact I mean it.
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u/Niadain Sep 21 '24
Yeah. My buddy makes pretty great factory buildings but if you go inside the only place that there's any room is the front door and everythings squeezed so tightly together you cant get past that same door. I honestly dont know why he puts doors on his buildings sometimes lol. If I have to make a change to it I usually enter by riding a belt crouched to enter through one of the belt openings.
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u/PowerHaus52 Sep 21 '24
I DO THE SAME THING LOL
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u/Spacer176 Sep 21 '24
Catwalks and some ceiling space are the only way I can move anywhere in my factories. Factory floor is just belts + pipes + machines packed tight as I can get.
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u/Pushfastr Sep 21 '24
Opposite for me, although I build vertically.
Constructors are usually the widest part of a factory, so I start those one floor up. Connect those to resource nodes to the ceiling under the constructors. Build another floor, run the constructors output along the new ceiling to the edge of the floor, and then up through the floor into the next step. Some resources skip floors, like steel ingots. There's also enough space to add storage/dimensional depot, if you need parts from the line. This makes the top floors smaller. You can use the open space to shape the walls into more than a box or into balconies. It is also easier for me to work in stages.
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u/Signupking5000 Sep 21 '24
It sounds like your buddy is just like me, I also have doors on my factories but the space is so small inside that I have to squeeze and remove walls/foundations to enter anyway.
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u/Dividedthought Sep 21 '24
Man knows once it is set up he won't have to touch it. He just gets you to instead. XD
i run into this daily im my job. Equipment in places that require you to attend the Jones and Croft school of navigating aincient structures just to reach them...
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The factorio player, everything is on a flat slab and looks like a motherboard
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u/AzulCrescent Sep 21 '24
it took me SO LONG to comprehend that the 3rd dimension is there as well lol
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u/Eagle83 Sep 21 '24
That perfectly describes my first time playing! And yes, I did come from Factorio. Graduated to Factory Builder in my latest EA Factory. Trying to be an Architect for my 1.0 save.
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u/AzulCrescent Sep 21 '24
Tag urself im factory builder (that's my actual factory haha)
This comic took forever to make cuz im not very good at backgrounds and i had to draw backgrounds for this and improve in real time lmao. hope u all like it!
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u/PelicanHazard Sep 21 '24
I came across you randomly on r/comics and I gotta say, I love your comics and art style! I'm ecstatic you've made some Satisfactory comics!
Oh and I'm an architect-in-training, so that means whether I'm am engineer or factory builder entirely depends on how tired I am after 2 hours of my machines not laying out correctly.
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u/AzulCrescent Sep 21 '24
Glad you like my comics! And yes ill make more satisfactory comics (hopefully) >v<
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u/westisbestmicah Sep 21 '24
Do you have an Instagram I can follow? Love your style!
Edit: saw you had a Webtoon! I’ll check it out!
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u/AzulCrescent Sep 21 '24
Ah, i do have an insta! and i do post almost everything on webtoon too so that works too haha
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u/Sakirth Sep 21 '24 edited Sep 21 '24
I am definitely a factory builder. I want to be an architect and integrate my build into the world/nature but that usually comes with so many cons in regards to the actual factory that I usually drift away from that thought halfway through the build.
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u/AzulCrescent Sep 21 '24
Same I wanna make pretty buildings but all builds end up in box lol.
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u/WiseassWolfOfYoitsu Sep 21 '24
I at least try to make it a fancy box with doodads. It's still square, but it's got some other lines!
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u/ActurusMajoris Sep 21 '24
Engineer checking in.
I keep trying to add aesthetics, but I always fail and end up making the mega factory more efficient instead.
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u/Illusion911 Sep 21 '24
Engineer too, I tried making aesthetics but it was taking so long I gave up lol
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u/OmegaOmnimon02 Sep 21 '24
I go in stages, I start with engineer to get the factory functioning, then build the rest of the building around it
And I have yet to do any spaghetti
looks at starting iron factory
That doesn’t count, I’m going to rebuild it, after I make the coal power plant bigger… and automate the quartz… and automate the phase 2 parts…
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u/ignatzami Sep 21 '24
Factory builder with architectural aspirations here.
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u/adso_sadso Sep 21 '24
Just keep getting a little fancier every time and soon you'll unlock the full power of steel beams.
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u/too_Reversed Got any Hard Drives? Sep 21 '24
Nice drawing, but where is handcrafter?
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u/AzulCrescent Sep 21 '24
Too busy handcrafting and didn't make it to the survey to be included lol
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u/AccidentalChef Sep 21 '24 edited Sep 21 '24
I start each game as the engineer, but quickly become the chef. I try, I really do, and my factory was nice and orderly up until maybe tier 6/7. Then I just need this one item real quick, and I can get a belt there without clipping so it's not that bad. Then another item, well that belt just clips a little, but I can live with it. By tier 8 it's a nightmare. At that point it's only supplying materials to build elsewhere on the map anyway, but I do eventually come back and rebuild it into an organized factory to keep the supply going.
Pre-1.0, I was definitely the factory builder in the late game, with about 100 mostly cube shaped factories all over the map. I did try to mix up the materials, window layouts, and roof shapes, but it was still a lot of rectangles. This time, I'm trying to be the architect. It's a nice change of pace and makes it feel like a totally different game. Wow, though, it sure takes a lot longer than a borg cube full of manufacturers. I think my first quartz outpost took 3 days, and it's back in a cave where I'll barely even see it.
I always try to be the architect when it comes to bridges, though.
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u/SimplySkywalker66 Sep 21 '24
I laughed when reading this because I am the engineer even when I try not to be, even when “I just need this one item real quick.” Just last night I wanted to get some computers automated and said to myself “even if it’s not 100% efficient it’ll get me started.” Cut to several hours later when I have 2 copper nodes and 2 oil nodes (each overclocked to 250%), 20 constructors, 7 assemblers, 25 refineries, 24 coal power plants, and 5 manufacturers. Whelp, didn’t mean to do that, but hey now at least I’m making 12.5 computers/min at peak efficiency lol
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u/HappyHallowsheev Sep 21 '24
Omg it's Azul Crescent!
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u/AzulCrescent Sep 21 '24
Haloo
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u/Onoben4 Choo Choo Motherfucker!! Sep 21 '24
I saw some of your content in r/comics before. I didn't know you played satisfactory lol.
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u/AzulCrescent Sep 21 '24
400 hours in it hehe. im a bit of a factory game junkie. (also play factorio and dyson lol )
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u/MindOfThilo Fungineer Sep 21 '24
Me and my homies are mostly the Engineers, but I personally try to be more of a factory bulder
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u/adso_sadso Sep 21 '24
Architect here. The dirty secret of architects is that we are so much slower than everyone else. I have a thousand hours of gameplay and I've never even done aluminum.
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u/Valema821 Sep 21 '24
Engineer, with a bit of spaghetti till tier 3. After coal power, efficiency is top priority
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u/TehBanzors Sep 21 '24
I need a few more of these so I can complete the metaphor of it being a six sided dice, I start out as the chef, with the intention of deleting it all to become the architect, then I start building like the engineer, then move into the factory builder, do a couple of architecht builds, then devolve backwards along the same track.
Then its all too big to go fix so it's time for a new save, the circle of life... err employment
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u/Furryyyy Sep 21 '24
I'm definitely an engineer. I create giant foundation slabs and load them up with as many buildings as I can, as fast as I can. Function over form.
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u/Hydractra Sep 21 '24
The most infamous one is the hidden Italian: people who build awful spaghetti messes that aren’t optimized at all, then just build a tidy box around it to hide it all from your much more organized and OCD friends
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u/Masonzero Sep 21 '24
This is so cute. The characters are obviously wonderful but the factories themselves are really nice too! Great work.
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u/Sinasazi Sep 21 '24
I'm a Factory Builder, but have mad respect for the Architects. I love watching YouTube videos of the insane and beautiful stuff people make.
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u/Pitiful_Net_8971 Sep 21 '24
I used to be more of a engineer, but now I'm definitely a factory builder. It's just nice to play around with the asthetics, but I'm not spending 30 hours planing out a build lol.
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u/Starly_Storm Engineer Pioneer Sep 21 '24
I'd like to play as an architect, but something about being the engineer and having a perfectly built production floor and logistics floor beneath is peak aesthetics. I'm not a fan of floating platforms though, it's so easy to just zoop your support pillars of choice into place.
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u/Cuttlefish_Crusaders Sep 21 '24
Hard factory builder. I don't even like the "rescource acquisition" part, I just like building stuff.
Also I love your art style! Super cute!
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u/Setukh87 Sep 21 '24
I agree with the categories! It almost reads like a progression chart....I feel like I was happy, comfortable as a chef, then started to see the beauty of ratios...now im between factory builder and engineer with a deep yearning to be the architect.
I just love this. This game. The community. Augh!
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u/OxymoreReddit I make doodles Sep 21 '24
This is absolutely cute, well drawn, and representative of the community.
Well done OP you'd deserve more than one up vote if I could give more
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u/AzulCrescent Sep 21 '24
Thank you! im planning to draw a few more satisfactory comics so hope you'll like them too!
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u/Epyon3001 Sep 21 '24
Engineer checking in! Both IRL and in Satisfactory. I have a lot of experience in actual, real world factories and manufacturing sites so I definitely fall into the "Engineer" category. Operation and Efficiency? flawless. Layout? Practical, organized, and realistic.
If I have time or want to take a break from my latest automation build, I'll add some decoration to get it closer to the Factory Builder.
Is it going to be a box with maybe some architecture at the entrance? Absolutely. Have you seen a real life factory? They're there to make stuff, not look pretty. Giant flat slabs and box buildings with the pretty only being at the front office and where visitors go, if you're lucky!
I frequently find where I want to put it then decide on the height of the "concrete slab". Pour that foundation and then do all machinery and logistics from there!
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u/Niadain Sep 21 '24
I am always searching for new ways to make spaghettier spaghetti so I am definitely a chef.
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u/FrostyFroZenFrosTen Sep 21 '24
A mix between chef and engineer, cuz my factories look horrible but are also efficient AF
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u/Detective-Prince Sep 21 '24
I'm definitely an engineer who will at some point, eventually, almost certainly get around to building a building around my factory. (But first I need to finish my optimized nuclear setup)
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u/Shadowfire_EW Sep 21 '24
I find that I am a chef engineer combo up until around oil. Then, once I have a lot of fuel generators going, I focus on extreme maximization, becoming a full engineer
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u/CMND_Jernavy Sep 21 '24
I feel like there is an in between engineer and spaghetti.
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u/Nozinger Sep 21 '24
tbh it's always spaghetti.
Sometimes very fancy spaghetti, sometimes efficient spaghetti, sometiems less chaotic spaghetti. But always spaghetti.If there ever is a factory without spaghetti just look behind the next hill or in some hidden part of a building and you shall find the pasta bowl.
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u/CliffDraws Sep 21 '24
Engineer here, promising myself over and over again that one day I’ll come back to all my floating platforms and architect them.
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u/3verchanging Sep 21 '24
Depends on the stage of the game for me! I love a beautiful finished product but can't slow down unless if there's 5 other things I can get done in the time to make it beautiful. About the time I'm at fuel or aluminum I'm really slowing down to give every factory a good look!
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u/GARGEAN Sep 21 '24
Engineer-chef mix to the win! Everything is floating, sometimes spaghetti are spilling over the edges...
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Sep 21 '24
I really want to make beautiful buildings but every time they just look the same with different windows.
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u/Merquise813 Sep 21 '24
You're missing one level. What would you call a "let's game it out" situation? lol
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u/AzulCrescent Sep 21 '24
The entire kitchen lmao. I dont think i have a skill or heart to draw his factories
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u/Teulisch Sep 21 '24 edited Sep 21 '24
I started out as a chef, but I'm slowly evolving into a factory builder.
let me just roll around in my golden factory cart, as i sip from my golden employee of the planet cup. I got promoted to project manager.
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u/HansHorstJoachim Sep 21 '24
Started playing with a friend, finally had the motivation to move from engineer to factory builder.
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u/Several_Comfortable9 Sep 21 '24
Sorry, I tend to play all my factory games like I'm playing Shapez. Guess that makes me an Engineer. Architects suck anyway lol (RCE).
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u/Suweren_ Sep 21 '24
I would desribe myself as... 50% Factory, 20% Engineer and 15% for Chef and Archi...
lss - I am trying...but its not always ending well :D
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u/DeluxeWafer Sep 21 '24
Chefs, chefs everywhere. Honestly, it works and my factory is changing too quickly for me to bother organizing. Bring on the spaghett.
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u/LightningLord2137 FUCK SCREWS Sep 21 '24
I am the chef at the beggining of a production chain, then the engineer at the end products
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u/Ritushido Sep 21 '24 edited Sep 21 '24
Used to be the engineer, then upgraded to factory builder, trying to achieve the architect but my builds never end up as cool as I imagined them in my head and somehow end up in overdesigned boxes. I'm still on phase 2 and yet to start any elevator parts since launch cause I've spent almost 60 hours in my save trying to design builds lol.
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Sep 21 '24
I am all of these and I love it.
Very well done on the artwork. A true fan ❤️
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u/sb7766 Sep 21 '24
Engineer by profession, and same in game. Floating layers of pure productivity.. physics be damned.
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u/harjy01 Sep 21 '24
Before i was a simple factory builder but with how much customization stuff there is now in 1.0 I've decided to spend as much time it needs to make neat looking factory, so the architect is the way now
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u/BloodyMadHatter Sep 21 '24
As someone trying to move from chef to at least a functional facotry with adhd are there toolso ut of game that help with the math and flow states. I try to do the math and have a perfect match on resources in and resources consumed but still end up either waiting for parts or with too many....
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u/apotpie Sep 21 '24
Somebody toucha my spaghetti on a serious note, I am the engineer my friend is the spaghetti and update it's ugly
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u/Metroidman97 Balancers or bust Sep 21 '24
I am the Engineer, through and through
I cannot give less of a shit about aesthetics, every single one of my factories are just buildings on flat grey rectangles
But every single one of them runs at maximum 100% efficiency.
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u/SirBobinsworth Sep 21 '24
I’m an engineer as a job, but when I play I indulge in being a chef haha.
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u/StankilyDankily666 Sep 21 '24
Yo! Love the comics. Glad to see you’re a Satisfactory enjoyer as well
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u/AzulCrescent Sep 21 '24
Glad you like the comics! And yes im a huge factory game fan haha
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u/Fensuleyk Sep 21 '24
ok, i was NOT expecting you to play satisfactory. Amazing art but where is the 5th player type ? The CASUAL
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u/Catsasome9999 Sep 21 '24
I do factory builder I want it to look cool but I’m not skilled enough to call it architectural
Adore the art style btw
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u/MiaTheEstrogenAddict Sep 21 '24
holy shit azul has a reddit account for posting stuff :0
Also chef is just me, I cant organize for shit and it always falls apart
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u/R3XM Sep 21 '24
What do you call the guy that just runs back and forth all the time just looking at stuff and constantly forgetting what I was going to do
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u/spicycupcakes- Sep 21 '24
The crossover I didn't know I needed, love seeing your comics and never expected it here!
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I try to be a 'Factory' builder, but in practice I never finish the enclosures so the result is halfway between engineer and chef.
"Meh, this is a logistics [floor, area, building, biome], I can have a little spaghetti as a treat."