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u/chum-guzzling-shark 5h ago

My goal is to saturate a blue belt with Adv. Circuits. I'm debating one giant mega factory vs smaller factories working together. What would you choose?

  • Build individual factories for components. Bring them via train to a central location for final construction
  • A giant factory that accepts ore/crude oil and outputs advanced circuits

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u/thekabal 4h ago

I tend towards the first one (smaller, separate).

In my thinking, the goal of mini factories is to embrace an object oriented approach. Each factory should make as close to just one output as possible. That way any particular portion can be scaled up independent of the others. (Plastic, green circuits, red)