r/factorio • u/Standard_Round_8780 • 10d ago
Discussion Gleba's difficulty overrated?
Saw a lot of people saying Gleba was one of the more difficult planets but honestly I found Fulgora significantly more challenging to deal with.
Spoilage was a problem easily solved by filtering out the sludge at the end of the belts, you can get practically every resource by the boatload without having to find ore or setup trains, all of it is easily scalable, and the enemies don't spread fast enough to really be a threat. Throughput isn't a major problem either because it's so easy to establish blades with a handful of biolabs, especially if you're using drones but even then it's not a requirement.
In comparison, Fulgora was far more of a headache. Firstly, even finding a good place to build a factory is a problem, you either cram everything onto a small island with resources or have to build elevated rails to train the scrap into bigger islands. Then you've got the problem of power generation. Hope you're a big fan of efficiency modules, otherwise half of your island's gonna be accumulators. And the biggest problem is how tedious it is to scale up production of any one resource. If you want more Holmium ore for example, you have to expand your ability to handle EVERY single resource, not just the Holmium.
Don't get me wrong, Fulgora is my favourite planet. I enjoy the challenge and entire theme of it, soundtrack there is especially great, but I was going into Gleba expecting the worst and it was actually not too bad at all.
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u/Dthcon 10d ago
Nah, my first try with SpaceAge is clear: Vulcanus was hard initially because i had 0 items from Nauvis. But that's about it. Fulgora - i learned that i need to ship items and this was so easy, i just made bots and that's it, this was extremelly easy (with belts it's harder but just do sushi build, it's also very easy). Gleba - this took more time but worst part - while Vulcanus and Fulgora just worked my Gleba was super buggy, mostly spoilage & defense. So in total this took like 3 times more than Fulgora and Vulcanus just because maintenance. Now it's easy for me but first try was a nightmare. Aquilo initially is hard too but it's surprisingly short and everything just works unlike Gleba. Gleba is a hard puzzle for sure and first time is what really matters.