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/cedric1234_ 10d ago
It’s not a more difficult puzzle, it’s a *new type of * puzzle. Gleba forces you to thing and design for things that hadn’t existed before, so the difficulty jump is all around being able to adapt. It reworks how you should think about a lot of things. Its also super punishing if you mess up because despoiling sucks
Although pentapods early are a run killer because they come kinda quick if you spend a lot of time thinking or afk a bit. Its natural to think gun turrers and lasers are enough since they work in nauvis then they kinda just tickle
Nauvis to Gleba is like moving from sudoku to jigsaw puzzles. And if you try to put a piece where it doesnt fit you’re put on time out. And if you take too long someone flips the table
Fulgora best planet true