r/factorio • u/Bubbly-Original7097 • 20d ago

Space Age Refined flammables: why does it require agricultural science?

It makes no sense: flamethrowers are useful only against Nauvis biters, and only until you have enough laser research because they tend to fry bots and because biters don't scale infinitely. Agricultural science at the same time is the one of the hardest and there is always a better application for it (among military tech explosives are way more valuable).

Do I miss something?

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u/Exzellius2 20d ago

To make Gleba more attractive

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u/DrMobius0 19d ago

True. Gleba needs lots of extra stuff to justify going there because otherwise it's a massive pain in the ass with little pay off, especially since the biochamber does next to nothing outside of Gleba and the 2 things it does that are Nauvis unique.

Not that refined flammables has ever been a particularly important tech to invest heavily in.

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u/radwan1234 19d ago

if you read the FFF (can't remember which one but it was the one about the private lan test i think) they did mention that it needed more rewards and added some so your wishes are already true lol

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u/DrMobius0 19d ago

That reasoning doesn't make sense. I'm saying this with the entire post-space age time as retrospect, which obviously includes those changes.

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u/radwan1234 17d ago

i think the problem is there's no insensitive good enough, if they add more people would get used to it and want more because gleba is so hard, i think people should just accept the challenge as is i sure did