Vic plays Factorio

[Vic]

Got bored. The end.

You could probably finish launching the rocket with like 20 mins of work. 10 minutes of work if using bots.

I could, but would I?

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I'm still secretly playing but I don't feel like updating my progress here anymore.

 

[Vic]

Yeah, I lost my enjoyment when I started watching YouTube tutorials for the trains. My base became "not my base". I think it's fine if your base is kind of shit compared to other more experienced players because the fun in Factorio comes from figuring out solutions to your factory's problems.

I'm back to playing it my own way and having a blast again. Still not going to continue updating here because quite frankly, I don't want people telling me what I should be doing or how my solutions may not be optimal because again, that defeats the purpose of playing the game.

If I should play this map long enough to get to a nice SPM rate I'll post a progress report.

Small update:

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[Vic]

Nukes are fun.

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[Vic]

My iron smelting setup. So late-game Factorio just turns into Transport Tycoon?

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[thesheeep]

So late-game Factorio just turns into Transport Tycoon?

Basically, yes.
Plus tower defense.

 

[Vic]

I'm addicted to optimizing my base. Send help.

 

[Vic]

The base has reached 200+ SPM.

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[Pika-Cthulhu]

 

[Average Manatee]

I think the sushi belt loading problem could have been solved more easily through a feedback loop. Simply track everything that comes out of the system over a period of time (would need to be fairly long like 10 mins) and apply that as a penalty to the resources being fed in. So, if copper ore is getting through your entire belt system unused you tell the splitters/inserters to load less copper.

I'm also not sure how his system actually works. I see ores on the belts past the furnaces. Surely the correct way to do it is to calculate the amount of ores your smelters should take, have the ore input be below that, then all ores should be made into plates. Then there's no raw ore on the belts after the initial run through furnaces, which means more belt space for everything else which means less wasted space and time and more efficiency. So I'm not sure what he's doing unless there's some kind of unstated rule to the challenge. And this is exactly what you'd be using his excessively complex system of logic circuits to manage, so that you're not loading more of something than the belts need.

 

[Demo.Graph]

you tell the splitters/inserters to load less copper.

No filter splitters. IIRC he later went for no filter inserters as well. And no separate loops. Just one big fat belt. And he equally split it on purpose.
Your solution is a good one, but it's against the spirit of his run.