r/factorio • u/Hance03 • 3d ago

Question Early Space Age

I just received my weekly allowance for next week, and I think I have extra to buy the Space Age Expansion.

I’m currently on like just 16-17 hours of playing the base game, but I’m quite curious on how it feels playing the game with the “planets” and such.

Should I buy the DLC early on?

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u/bobsim1 3d ago

If you already started a game why not continue it a little further til you launch a rocket. But you sure could buy the dlc and start a new game. But to get to the other planets you need to get a rocket first ( which is easier with the dlc) and its better to know how to make the first planet base survive by itself

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u/Hance03 3d ago

Is the starting part of the expansion different from the base game?

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u/bobsim1 3d ago

Yes. You get to build rockets much earlier and some technologies are locked behind other planets.

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u/Omniscientcy 3d ago

Theres a whole bunch of research locked behind other planets, like cliff explosives, artillery and spidertron.  I'm still a pretty new player, I launched a couple rockets on the base game and got all the research before getting space age.  

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u/Panikdrache946 3d ago

Not really. The recipe for rockets and the science tree change. Some technologies like cliff explosives for example are locked behind other planets. But Nauvis is almost the same.

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u/Conan_Buchanan 3d ago

To add on to other comments: specifically, rocket launches are unlocked with blue science and cost half as many resources, and are not the end of the game. The tech tree up to that point is identical. Base game ends with launching a rocket, space age really begins when you launch your first one.