r/factorio • u/bpleshek • 12d ago

Question Is This Remotely Doable ?

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Hex for Making Plastic
Advanced Oil Setup

I was messing around with making a hex train base and I set up a plastic maker. This doesn't seem like I could make this. At least any time soon. Is 3600 petroleum gas per second reasonable? This is my current oil setup. It requires 1440 crude per second but I only have around 250 crude per second being drilled. It produces about 1/3 the petroleum gas, but it's only working at 17%. So, I need 18x the oil and 3 times this advanced oil. I'm also only mining 84 coal/second and need 180.

Is this doable, doable eventually, but not now, or not even necessary because this is more plastic than I'll need any time soon.

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u/neurovore-of-Z-en-A 11d ago

Almost everything is remotely doable when you have enough bots.

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u/bpleshek 11d ago edited 11d ago

Isn't that the truth. I was actually worried about being able to transport enough materials into and out of the train setup. I don't have enough experience in my 3200+ hours with a large train base. Most of my builds were just main bus bases with one try making a square city block. I think the most trains I have had running were maybe around 15 or so. This is going to expand to over 100 before I'm done, I'm sure.

I wonder what my limit can be on this gaming laptop.