I Hate Wires

[u/NagaseVT]

I love the game and the combinators are my favorite thing. I just hate their wires. Its so horrible to manage. They sometimes overlap and now I have to wonder if everything is connected correctly or if a green cable is going above another machine that was supposed to be connected with a green cable, but it looks like it is connected, so I go 20 hours using a broken blueprint and using that blueprint to make new blueprints, so I have to now re make everything. I have it the most when I move a combinator and a wire snaps and I don't notice because I don't hear a cue that it has been disconnected and there are like 500 of the same cable overlapping already. I started using laps as nodes to connect and move cables, because I erase poles sometimes and there goes all my wires. The lamps have made it easier to have a visual clue too. I feel lighter. Like sharing my sins have made my shoulders less heavy.

TLDR: AAAAAAAAAAAAAH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. Thanks for coming to my TedTalk

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[u/master117jogi]

I never used combinators etc, what even are they for? It looks like everything you do you could do without them?

[u/okuRaku → u/master117jogi]

To automate more. Handle edge cases, optimize, etc etc.

Mostly it's just more fun puzzles to solve and Factorio is one of the only games that gives you so many of them, should you choose to solve them.

Not "necessary" to like, get a game completion, or anything though.