Legendary asteroids are going to benefit greatly from asteroid productivity. On paper, the amount of asteroids you get is going to be pretty small and if you benchmark it you won't be much better off for going for that method instead of say, a mill strategy with a really good productivity bonus from ...

How does the recycler give you nutrients in a way that is not available otherwise?
It creates spoilage but that already happens anyway so it doesnt add anything there.



This is "how Coffee's brain works". There's an indirect route to nutrients that goes jelly->iron bacteria 10%, spoilage. If I ...

A recycler works like a void if you don't have quality. You could remove the entire thing, and still play Space Age. The only thing that directly affects other than quality is a alternate way of getting nutrients.


Isn't the recycler literally required to get resources on Fulgora?


Yeah, I ...

The point where it starts to make sense is at a point in the game where a player can dispose of the asteroids in a way other than tossing them, which starts at Fulgora with a recycler but is practical at Vulcanus with rerolls.
I guess my point was kind of lost -- the idea was since I'm already ...

I'm always flabbergasted how much emphasis people put on quality collectors. My own experience is even with the common ones, I'm still voiding more asteroids than I actually use.

And find quality turrets to be actively worse than common ones, outside of a few specialized situations: wider range ...

A recycler works like a void if you don't have quality. You could remove the entire thing, and still play Space Age. The only thing that directly affects other than quality is a alternate way of getting nutrients.

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That isn't untrue. It mainly effects early game, when you're resource starved. It also affects starts that go to Gleba first.

There's every second after you get enough resources. If you go to Vulcanus first, you can do a odd combo like basic liquifaction or coal liquifaction for sulfur ...

They work and stompers are segmented, so if there's a segment in a AOE they'll take extra damage. Bonus damage has to be balanced against the fact they are a static defense. Even if a landmine does say, 3K damage that's 5+ mines going off for a kill on the worst stompers. That's quite a bill in ...

You don't need quality. The main thing you need to do is govern your speed, but you can reach the end game screen without quality being a part of your factory. Runtime was 92 hours for that game... although if I'm being honest I had two upcycler's running on the deck of that ship for a few hours ...

I've tried it both ways.

With the "go for max" strategy what I ran into was that I'd be designing for a factory so powerful the standardization I'd do between levels just wouldn't hold, so I'd have to be implementing normal factories and max factories for a period of time. So my gap wasn't at the ...

I form a loop and have an arbitrarily large number of trains. Why are you measuring the throughput of trains rather than tracks. In magical ideal fairyland (what my initial comment was about), endpoints don't matter and width is what is relevant.


It's usually a technical foul to invoke fairy ...

Just noting for anyone who isn't aware:
Trains are a couple orders of magnitude higher throughput over belts when running at max speed (theoretically); the bottleneck that everyone is talking about is loading/unloading (specifically trains getting into and out of the station).


I did benchmark ...

A fifo chest probably isn't what you want.

You can reverse a sequence of items just by loading from one chest to another.

So this looks like it works:

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"Making a queue from 2 stacks" is considered an interview question in CS, and part of that algorithm is that ...

Ran a quality focused game, based on the idea of quality ASAP. The play is run like this: Science on infinite research is done by the thousand.

So once you unlock those, you're guaranteed the cost of the science in parts on one component line if you put in quality modules on the plate manufacturing ...

Yep. Bricks run like this too, but it's less noticeable because it's a 2 item recipe.

A timer based 2:6 vs. a counter 2:6 when a belt is split 3/4.

I put some more work into this.

Some things came up: timer based splits work conditionally because they don't actually count items that can be "predicted to move" between a ticks. But this isn't necessarily a clear fail, it's a case by case fail when you can't divvy up items between ticks. So we're ...