• Scrubbles
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    85 hours ago

    Nice job! No matter how big I make the floors they always seem too small for what I needed.

    Join us over at [email protected] if you like, and of course welcome to cross-post!

    • @[email protected]OP
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      4 hours ago

      Done and Done, thank you!

      My tower is 4x3 then 4x4, it was definitely a challenge fitting stuff in there.

      • Scrubbles
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        34 hours ago

        Then you build up stators to help comp for that, then you build some skywalks between the two… one of my favorite things is building cyberpunk style cities as the factory grows

    • @[email protected]OP
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      8 hours ago

      It’s absurdly addictive, it’s hard to explain to your family why you’re having fun making spreadsheets for the game

    • @[email protected]
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      109 hours ago

      It’s ADHD bait. When I am on my meds, I get a dopamine hit every time I progress or solve something.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 hours ago

      Also a dirty engineer, and proud.

      In my MP games, I get things done. You want things to look pretty, do it yourself.

    • @[email protected]
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      1111 hours ago

      I’d like to think I’m an engineer, but if we’re being honest, I’m much closer to chef.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      510 hours ago

      I’m flattered!

      The tower was not very complicated to build, the harder part was fitting all the machines in the limited room on each floor, and keeping track of materials between layers, as you can see:

      That isn’t a drone port, i don’t have drones (or fuel for the jetpack 😬) unlocked. It’s actually the hub.

    • Tanis Nikana
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      510 hours ago

      Wait a second, I know that AzulCrescent!

      I wish she would pick up her Webtoon where she left off.

      • LennethAegis
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        410 hours ago

        I miss it too, but its not like we’ve been starved for content, she’s been doing little daily comics for a while now.

      • @majestictechie
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        18 hours ago

        Yes! It feels like it’s been ages and I’m invested in the story now

  • Psaldorn
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    1110 hours ago

    Very impressive. Now let’s see Paul Allen’s factory.

    Sweats profusely

  • @[email protected]
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    1111 hours ago

    Wow, it’s like we’re not even playing the same game. All my stuff is out in the open with tall stacks of conveyor belts everywhere.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 hours ago

      Still on my first playthrough amd my “factory” is a collection of what I had to build at any moment connected where it has to be for the next step. Other than a few rebuilt spots here and there. Last night was the quest for more coal and a lesson in power grid management. Next up to tackle is better water pressure optimization.

  • MudMan
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    1011 hours ago

    I weep for the hours you’ve invested in this without even getting paid.

    I weep more for the hours I’m going to invest trying to replicate this out of sheer jealousy.

    • @[email protected]
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      310 hours ago

      I wonder if making a blueprint for the floors would be easy enough. Might make the whole thing a lot quicker.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        each floor is unique in the interest of compactness, so it wouldnt help THAT much. (i didnt use blueprints)

  • Tanis Nikana
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    1012 hours ago

    And here I am just making my motors by hand like a chump. You know, maybe it’s time I get off my ass and build something cool like this. Iron and coal processing and smelting on the first level, ingot splitting to wire on the second, pipe making on the third, have a vertical line that’ll start pumping out rotors from processing, then a bank of assemblers at the top floor to churn out motors and to line them back down.