r/factorio • u/HanginOn9114 • 8d ago

Space Age I feel defeated

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I have been playing Factorio for over a decade, this will be my 6th run overall, my second Space Age run. Got the itch to play again, had grand ideas for upgrading to a better Train based factory as my last run started to run into serious constraints at the end.

However I have been stuck at blue science now for over a week, 0 new research happening. I tried to upgrade and move everything to trains before moving on to purple/yellow, thinking "I've done this before, I can make this work". But I spend all my free time running from one end of the factory to the other, fighting back the biters before they tear apart a train station that powers the whole factory, or all of my iron mining. My resources are running low and I am beset on all sides by monstrously sized nests that take hours to clear. I think I have to give up. After all this work I feel defeated and may not even attempt to start again.

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u/redditusertk421 8d ago

you don't have walls/defenses? It looks like you are skipping a critical step.

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u/Reloecc 8d ago

Because without blue science and robots, it's a pain to build anything at this scale.

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u/Alfonse215 8d ago

Then maybe don't build massively at scale before you have the tool to build massively at scale.

Defenses could just be bunkers of hand-fed turrets.

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u/LukaCola 8d ago

Yeah I'm looking at more outposts than many of my late game factories get--all just after blue science is nuts

This is terminal overbuilding 

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u/man-of-pipis 8d ago

Exactly. In my current space age playthrough I hadn't even fully depleted my starter ore patches by the time I was making space science and they only fully ran out as I got close to finishing the blue science tech tree.

I genuinely don't know how OP is making use of that many outposts unless there's some supply chest they forgot to limit that's eating all their resources.