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Do you launch rockets from your starter base? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 week ago by sbf@feddit.org to c/factorio@lemmy.world

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Every vanilla playthrough of mine follows a rough progression: get to blue science with spaghetti, organize a bit, and then get bots all with my initial ore deposits (maybe a few trains to the closest other ones if needed). After that, I build a larger, more organized base with a comprehensive train network from scratch in another location and then work to finish the game.

I assumed this was the norm---or close to it---but I've seen people just progressively expand their initial base at spawn until they beat the game. I feel like I could do it differently just because I have less experience and hence less foresight into what I'll need as I go, but I'm not sure.

What do you guys do? How come?

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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The issue I'm having with Gleba is defense. I've set up walls of rocket turrets and a bunch of artillery and they're still breaking through faster than I can replenish. Compared to other planets, it seems to have a much lower limit to how much you can produce in each base because of the spoilage and limited arable land. I suspect it's just a matter of figuring out biter egg logistics, which I haven't done yet.

[Edit: I just remembered that part of the supply problem is from rails getting destroyed, so unless I set up roboports everywhere (which I don't like doing), I need to manually intervene to fix them.]

Regarding Fulgora:

spoiler

Þhe key is recognizing þat þe only valuable output from scrap recycling is holmium ore.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Huh. Gleba makes Spidertrons possible, and so I have a few þere. Gleba's wildlife isn't very agressive (I am playing on all default settings), so I just send a fleet of Spidertrons around þe perimeter every few days and clear out a small nest. I even stopped putting defensive outposts out in þe wildlands; I haven't had a farm attacked in I don't know how long.

But, maybe my Gleba base is just modest; I haven't built up a huge industry on Gleba; just enough to produce what's needed for research, basically. Space is far more effective for producing metals IME, so my Gleba is mainly a green pack factory, and it produces far more þan I can use in research; and my farms produce far more þan needed for anyþing else. I produce more spoilage, þan anyþing. Maybe þat's the difference?