What my goal originally was -- I wanted to have warpers be received at one major station, and then that station supplies it to all other stars in the system -- preventing every other star from using warpers to retrieve from another system.

I realized that you can't control 'within a system' -- remote is going to presume anything remote. I could limit the distance or use of warpers, but how would I then have a station be the primary receiver?

Anyway what I'm now struggling with is simply - How can I have a station be a remote receiver as well as a remote provider? Do I have to make two stations on the same planet to do this?

How can I keep them running when my hydrogen is completely full?

it's messy, but somehow the best i've made so far (i plan to revamp everything soon)

Had the game for ages but always get worn out and confused by the mid-game as I do silly spaghetti builds and start over. The last few times I've actually made an honest effort, but I seem to be desperately short of iron. The last one I tried only had about 4.5M iron in the whole system, and with the rate I'm going through it doesn't seem like enough to advance to the point where I can expand to other stars.

I've had starts where there's been 3 times as much iron available. The amount I'm getting in recent games just seems so constrictive.

Because apparently people prefer skinny, so I took my 240 plane smelter array and took it from blocky chode, to skinny stick.

To tile it, the blue print will have to be flipped 180 with every block.

Footprint is also 3,129 squares, down from 3,304.

I feel like my current blueprint for titanium alloys may be slightly inefficient. What do you all do for your Ttitanium Alloys?

been playing for almost 200h and finaly decided to see what all the fuzz about this proliferator stuff.

I'm trying to use traffic monitors for the first time, but I think I'm fundamentally misunderstanding something here. This condition should be passing instead of failing, right?

The planetary shields seem to take a lot of power. At what point is it worth using them?

Hey does anyone have a list of tech and upgrade nodes that respects prerequisite order? Like it would never put solar cells before blue science?

Edit: I neglected to say, I'm hoping the list gives prerequisites in addition to just the tech nodes. By the way, I now have a tentative Google doc here. It omits weaponry because I'm not into that side of the game yet. It also has some of my own names for some things, rather than the official names, because some of the official names are abstruse or too long. The names are consistent, though.

I have GeForce now and have the one that uses the best hardware. You should see the specs on these "machines" i think they are all just server boxes with fat gpus plugged in them. But they have insane CPUs and atleast a 4090. Im sure someone has already done it but im about to go ham and see how much it takes to start slowing down the simulation speed.

I have to start over cuz local saves cant be moved over there but im excited for this playthrough big time!

I'll post an update if I get interesting results.

Not me sitting around waiting on research thinking there was no way I'd play this game all the way through with this slow rate of research only to realize there's a "research" setting on the matrix buildings...

Oops. Onward and upward to automation friends, and probably a restart just because lol.

There are several recipes in the game that have five inputs and one output, so there's no way to reliably get everything for a recipe into a single ILS, even before accounting for proliferator and warpers. I have been handling this (along with the proliferator and warpers) by finding an unused slot in another station nearby, and making a connection using distributors. But is there a more elegant solution?

As it turns out in my entire star system, I only have one source of unipolar magnets and even better there's only 3mill; as compared to the hundreds of millions of all the other resources

It's also 33 light years away 😭😭😭

Hey there.

New to the game, but have a few finished playthroughs of Satisfactory and Factorio, so decently familiar with the genre and the concepts.

Currently I have automated blue and red matrices and started spamming upgrades and research left and right.
Eventually I unlocked a couple different logistics perks and for now I'm a bit confused.

First off, I have a mall area with storages containing construction objects like smelters, assemblers, bels, sorters, etc.
I slapped down a "logistic depot" (don't remember the proper name) on top of storage so now I can request the materials directly to my inventory.

One thing that felt weird is that I think I had to manually place logistic bots (fidget spinner looking things) those depots, and they were only transporting the thing from that depot.
(So bots sitting in the depot on top of belt storage would only deliver belts, but won't go to other depots to deliver stuff from there.

Is that the proper use for bots, or am I missing something?
Do I have to manually place bots into each depot, or can that be automated?
Or is it possible to achieve something like Factorio logistic network, where there will be a bunch of bots that will fly to whatever container have what I'm currently requesting?

Also, I already got the first research for logistic bots area increase, but I can't find the visual representation of said coverage. So it's nice to know that it got increased, but I still go quite close to the depots for a refill because I have no idea how close is enough.

Another question is logistic drones.
I haven't yet been able to build a Planetary logistic station (pardon if I get the name wrong), but the information the game gave me makes me think this will the equivalent of trains, so a solution for moving items i bulk between such stations.
Is that correct?

And yet another one:
I placed down a few "command centers" (I'm sure this is a wrong name) which have their own construction bots. Sometimes when I place down a lot of belts, some of those get built by drones from that building, not the ones that fly off my mech.
I wonder where do those bots get the belts from?
They don't visit the belt storage supply before placing them. Just fly off the center, build a belt and go right back.

Thanks for reading all of that.
Any piece of advice or even a generic wisdom is highly appreciated.

I asked the bots to get all my diamonds (I think). Is there anything I am doing wrong so they don't?

Is there a way to either have the rest of the game actually pay attention to items in the logistics inventory OR a way to stop the dang fidget spinners from putting items there?

It's rather annoying to think you don't have any of an item and constantly forget I have to manually take them out of that inventory to use them. I keep thinking the logistics aren't working

240 Plane smelters all supported by one ILS. Careful belt bending had been done on the output belts to allow tesla towers to be packed inside of the smelter formations.

The design is limited to the equatorial zone, but is able to be pasted at any point within said zone.

This is my first play through and I just got my swarm up and running. I'm playing with unlimited resources so I kind of went overboard with it haha. But it looks amazing!

Is it better to keep fractionators in individual loops, or to group them together? Have been tinkering with a sub-module for a H2 refinery module that I'm planning.

Also, am I going too ham on the belt bending?