Should I play with Resource Multiplier at Infinite?

[LuuMor]

Should I play with Resource Multiplier at Infinite?

My gut feeling is that it's going to be such an hassle later, if resources start to run out.

[vkobe]

play what you love

i take the default

but if i have to restart i will take infinite ^_^

[corefracture]

I wouldn't recommend that. Part of the fun (in my opinion) is expanding out to more and more planets and systems when resources start running out. Also once they run out you can start back filling that planet as a construction planet not a mining one. To get the best of both worlds maybe do 5x multiplier on the resources instead of infinite?

[LuuMor]

I guess I will go infinite, because resource expanding doesn't seem to be this game's strength.
If I want to do that I will play Factorio. :D Thanks for the subtle hint.
If this was an multiplayer game it wouldn't be such a bad thing, but doing all this alone? No thank you.

[Trance]

I prefer infinite. It's annoying to rebuild ressource nodes or even find which ones ran dry. I rather place them once and be done with it.

[LuuMor]

Hmm.. Didn't notice Corefracture's message. I guess I will try to find some end game gameplay, before I make my final decision.

[Calmputer]

even if you go with non-infinite, there is repeatable efficiency research you can do late-game to decrease the speed at which deposits get depleted. if you get the efficiency up high enough, you can get to less than 1% usage. which means it's functionally unlimited.

[Saint_Aint]

Regardless of standard or infinite resources, you will be importing rare ones from other systems. Keep that in mind.

Also, the further you are from your starting system, the nodes offer more resources per.

[Tankfriend]

Went with infinite resources straight from the start and never looked back. As Saint-Aint wrote, you *will* be importing ressources from off-world, anyway, even if you go with infinite ressources.
Rare materials have to be imported from other systems, and depending on the size of your production layouts, you might even need to import everything down to basic materials just to get the throughput to keep the factory running.

[yes]

there really is no need to play with infinite resources, even with x1 there is more than you will ever need in the universe. having said that, do what you enjoy, its "your game", dont rely on other people to tell you what to like, thats a pretty bad approach to life in general.

[DaBa]

Your call. It's better for learning the game as you don't really have to worry about running out. But once you already know your way around, it removes an important part of the gameplay and makes it less interesting in a long run.

[LuuMor]

Originally posted by yes:

there really is no need to play with infinite resources, even with x1 there is more than you will ever need in the universe. having said that, do what you enjoy, its "your game", dont rely on other people to tell you what to like, thats a pretty bad approach to life in general.

I know what I like and didn't ask that, but factory games sadly usually reveal the cons and pros after hours and hours of gameplay. Like in Factorio I don't like infinite (You can do it with mods), but in Dyson I might prefer infinite, because the scale is so big and it feels slower in general. So spending hours and hours just "fixing" mining doesn't sound fun. But it seems that resources are quite infinite late game according to comments in this discussion.
Asked about this, because you just can't know these things unless you have played the game and gotten to late game.

[vkobe]

Originally posted by LuuMor:

Originally posted by yes:

there really is no need to play with infinite resources, even with x1 there is more than you will ever need in the universe. having said that, do what you enjoy, its "your game", dont rely on other people to tell you what to like, thats a pretty bad approach to life in general.

I know what I like and didn't ask that, but factory games sadly usually reveal the cons and pros after hours and hours of gameplay. Like in Factorio I don't like infinite (You can do it with mods), but in Dyson I might prefer infinite, because the scale is so big and it feels slower in general. So spending hours and hours just "fixing" mining doesn't sound fun. But it seems that resources are quite infinite late game according to comments in this discussion.
Asked about this, because you just can't know these things unless you have played the game and gotten to late game.

hydrogen, antimatter, fire ice, oil, water, acid are infinite, only ore are limited

[Tuco404]

In late game resources are effectively infinite, so this difference in only matters before then. Personally the early game resource depletion wqs a fun gameplay loop

[Clonefarmer]

One plus about lower resource amounts is the ability to mine out and remove ore patches in a decent amount of time. I like to be able to remove patches for room to expand.

[yes]

Originally posted by LuuMor:

I know what I like and didn't ask that, but factory games sadly usually reveal the cons and pros after hours and hours of gameplay. Like in Factorio I don't like infinite (You can do it with mods), but in Dyson I might prefer infinite, because the scale is so big and it feels slower in general. So spending hours and hours just "fixing" mining doesn't sound fun. But it seems that resources are quite infinite late game according to comments in this discussion.
Asked about this, because you just can't know these things unless you have played the game and gotten to late game.

you wont know what you like until you tried no matter what we tell you though. there are people who like infinite settings, there are people who dont. sry if you felt like i was patronizing, it wasnt meant so bad.

but since you like normal resource settings in factorio, chances are good you are fine with the default x1 settings, especially since they equate to rather high settings in facotrio anyways, but ultimatively only you can tell.

id also like to point out that there is a repeatable research later in game which, with enough researches, makes resources infinite for all practical purposes (meaning unless you intentionally ignore this particular research, you can not mine out the universe even if you tried - no matter the settings)

but seems you decided already anyway.