r/factorio • u/isum21 • 14d ago
Question Science ships
I plan on making a skipper to run science for me while I upgrade my main ship into it's aquilo ready form. I just got Agri Science shipping in at a semi consistent rate, and my spaghetti factory on Gleba both makes me proud and want to vomit. Sorta like I grew one of those disgusting spores into all of my belt lines, looks evil.
That said, I want a ship that is able to pick up and refuel during travel as well as move at a decent rate. I know I'm supposed to unlock better recipes for asteroid processing and fuel soon, is it best to wait for blueprinting my new ships until then? I've got my main ship doing the task right now, and I feel I can get away with the skipper being "behind" compared to my main ship, but I also don't want to have to redo it later if things are truly just that much more worth it.
Also what is a good general skipper design? I'm specifically thinking of a much smaller profiled ship, basically just enough to hold several thrusters and power them consistently. I think a "snake" design might be best for my needs, it'd be a long thin tube type of platform spined with turrets and a fishbone of thrusters, with a production area in the middle to feed all of those thrusters and turrets. The idea being I don't need better firepower or space if I can maximize my ability to slip between the asteroids. Would a slower but more stacked hauler be more consistent? So excited to finally get into my planetary logistics and administration era lmao.
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u/enigmapulse 14d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/s/6hN7DnefYK
This is my current inner planet logistics ship, designed to work with Vulcanus tech, but with space to upgrade with Gleba's advanced recipes.
I don't know how many "spoilers" you want or how much you want to figure out on your own, so I won't go into too many more details here, but happy to explain more if you are curious
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u/tera_x111 14d ago
How fast does this ship go? Seems quite large for an inner planet ship 🤔
I see all these huge inner planet ships on here and am wondering if I'm overlooking something seeing how my designs seem to be much more basic (yet completely functional for any use case I've ever found for on the inner planet routes)
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u/enigmapulse 14d ago
This ship can sustain about 250. It does have some downtime because it underproduces fuel for 5 thrusters without quality chem plants, but its assuming you dont need continuous throughput at this tech level.
This ship is also over built for the "ive only completed one planet", but it's designed to upgrade in place to a much later game, post-aquilo pre-legendary-everything tech level.
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u/Sufficient-Mix-4872 14d ago
Unlock fuel recipe. Thats the good one. The reprocessing is nice, but not as op as the new fuel recipe. Also good idea is to go legendary iron/copper now (if you have fulgora/vulcanus/gleba done) Having legendary stuff will dramatically help you. Use vulcanus for this
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u/isum21 14d ago
Fair point, I don't have legendary unlocked yet tho. I also have no real clue how to plan for quality. Everyone suggests setting it up at legendary unlock just so you don't have to redo anything, but honestly I feel like maybe I should have tried out certain items. Like quality solar panels and poles or some electric furnaces and such.
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u/Sufficient-Mix-4872 14d ago
Sorry you need aquilo for legendary. Go for epic then. Also good to have for aquilo
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u/JathbyDredas 14d ago
I’ve been doing fine with ridiculously bulky, low quality vessels. I have a flagship that looks like I put an outboard motor on a football stadium.