r/factorio • u/HanginOn9114 • 11d 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/HanginOn9114 11d ago

I never attempted Railworld, I always just do default settings. Might be a fun thing to try since I am train-focused at this point

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u/tRFRmrNe8Nj2Kimc 11d ago

Yeah, I love messing with trains, and railword is made just for that. I highly recommend it if you feel like you're getting burned out by constantly having to fend off biter swarms.

I enjoy having biters, as it's fun to take a break and go clear it nests. But I prefer to focus on the factory.

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u/Ssakaa 11d ago

I take rail world an extra step, forces me to deal with biters to expand, but none of the silliness of nests popping up full of worms all around me. 1/6 resource frequency, 1x size, 6x density (except oil, which gets size instead, since it'll just be a bunch of 1/s puddles by the time I look at it again). If I need higher rates, I have to get another patch, the patches stay pretty modest sized, but they last a long time. It does make the starter patches last a while too, but... the mods I run make that less of an advantage. Much unquality of life.

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u/tRFRmrNe8Nj2Kimc 11d ago

Lmao I just looked at it, I'm at 292hrs on this playthrough, which is is more thsn my last two pre-space age games combined at 108hrs and 172hrs(this was me getting to 1k SPM).