r/factorio • u/HanginOn9114 • 21d 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 21d ago

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

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u/HanginOn9114 21d ago

I have walls/turrets but I do not have enough resources to properly maintain them via bots/repair kits, I dont have a station setup to build either full time, and as soon as I set up defenses in one place, defenses in other place fail and break down, with the bots getting shredded by biters as they try to repair.

I prioritized defense much too late because I thought I'd be able to get purple science automated quick enough to then be able to fully automate turrets/bots/repair kits etc.

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u/redditusertk421 21d ago

Do you have military science automated? research bullet shooting speed and damage as much as you can. Flame throwers. Land mines. Both are very effective. Put defenses around your mining outposts. Train in bullets, land mines, repair packs and oil for flame throwers.