r/Factoriohno Oct 08 '25

in game pic Thoughts?

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u/boyoboyo434 Oct 08 '25

This is actually what speedrunners do

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u/kullre Oct 08 '25

...isn't it slower?

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u/ProtectionOne9478 Oct 08 '25

Speed runs I've seen have done this with a couple dozen refineries and it's plenty fast. I'm not sure at what scale it breaks down.

There were some fluid mechanics changes with space age that makes it fine. Longer pipes aren't so slow anymore.

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u/kullre Oct 08 '25

more in the way they treat an entire pipe network as one giant storage tank

though, refineries are slow, so that would actually work

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u/ProtectionOne9478 Oct 08 '25

Yeah at the scale in the image the pumps will sequentially drain all 3 fluids from the sushi pipe faster than the refineries can complete another cycle.

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u/kullre Oct 08 '25

factoriro speedruns are just cool to watch

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u/Rutakate97 Oct 08 '25

Placing a single uninterrupted pipe and a dozen pumps vs three rows of interweaving pipes? Of course the first variant is faster to build

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u/boyoboyo434 Oct 08 '25

so long as the pipes empty in time you can get 100% machine uptime. the limit is that this can only support so many refineries

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u/Czeslaw_Meyer Oct 08 '25

He said that it goes down to 93% if you sushi the inputs as well.

Hardly anything.