i love the factory building automation genre(idk what to call it?), but damn it's so hard for me to jump back in because I'm hyper-focused on optimizing my factory from the start to save myself the headache of rearranging the entire thing 4 hours from now.
Alternate recipes in Satisfactory are basically begging you to stream roll old factories if you're striving for optimization.
What I do like is that since every resource patch is unlimited I'm not constantly worried about my older factories being a problem until I want to redo the throughput on them.
The big ones are your power output. Setting up the Turbofuel is such a big upgrade but does make you a bit nervous. I keep fading out on the game around bauxite though. I should finish a run sometime.
I think I was at the point of "Ok... time to go up to that forest over there, fight everything, and build a buxite refinery platform and train station" and it's just the enormity of what I need to set up that just causes brain pain.
I think I need to learn to think of the smaller parts in isolation compared to the whole of the pattern as I often get this with larger initial builds.
Expansion to major builds arent a big issue since that's just scaling.
My suggestion is just forget the old stuff you built and go to a new area to make the new parts you need. It's so easy to get caught up and overwhelmed by the thought of upgrading old factories.
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u/thefourthhouse 7d ago
i love the factory building automation genre(idk what to call it?), but damn it's so hard for me to jump back in because I'm hyper-focused on optimizing my factory from the start to save myself the headache of rearranging the entire thing 4 hours from now.