dushinto#factorio I finally did it!
... don't worry about how many hours or attempts it took
Least favorite planet remains #gleba
VioletBackpack@rickpelletier working on Express Delivery now. Did you have a plan going in? Throughput milestones at certain hour marks? Or did you just “gotta go fast”?
@VioletBackpack I backtracked and restarted like 50 times, trying to improve the time when I got off each planet. I went through a stretch where I was on Aquilo and missed it by like, an hour or two. I finally realized that the two planets giving me trouble were Gleba and Aquilo, both of which have a 'warm up' mechanism (seeds and heat).
@VioletBackpack Biggest thing that ended up making the difference was manually farming 🍅 and 🧠 as much as possible to ramp up seeds, and on Aquilo shipping in like 4000 rocket fuel at the start to power 15 or so heat towers to help the nuclear plants get going
@VioletBackpack I also blueprinted lots of base enhancements in map editor first and then focused on building, no time for trying to figure it out live
@VioletBackpack last thing that tipped the scale was actually bothering to get the bio science buildings, that made the small amount of agriculture science go much further in the last few hours.
@VioletBackpack I did Fulgora -> Vulcanus -> Gleba -> Aquilo because I realized Nauvis is basically waiting for electromagnetic plants and doesn't care about foundries at first
@rickpelletier i been building like normal, then blueprinting and going back in time to drop and let the bots build (or myself without having to worry the layout and recipes). But Im already 8h down and just getting my Navi rockets up. I feel like the pace is way too slow, but not sure what I should be hitting hour by hour.
@VioletBackpack I did a lot of that too! I didn't get off Nauvis until hour 17, you're doing fine!
My strategy was to ship the whole planets stuff right at the beginning, so I had to beef up Nauvis more than just one rocket silo, and beef up the rocket part production also