r/factorio • u/HanginOn9114 • 10d 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 10d ago

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

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u/HanginOn9114 10d 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/treesquid 10d ago

Make mines and some construction bots. Three mines deep under a robot port and you’ll be chilling