Was this deliberately hostile game design?

[Bread Pirate Robots]

As you scale up production, you make a LOT of slag.
No recipe consumes enough of it.
There's no dumping it.
With no new drones, moving 1000s of units manually is a terrible option.
It looks like you can automate with flight control.
After you build it, you find out the hilarious decision made here: There's a special exception that although you can belt slag into and out of other buildings, the conveyor belt connection on the flight control doesn't accept slag.

Like, you'd have to do that on purpose, surely? Make an exception so the player can conveyor slag, but NOT into the flight control, so they HAVE to use the tiny amount of drones (who will then prioritise hauling slag from the furthest place they can for the next several days, while any critical maintenance and construction tasks are totally ignored.)

Cmon guys. Why do this to your players?

[JeanDeaux]

Had you read through some other threads, the Dev's specifically stated that there are slag contracts that can be used to make $$$.

[resonance]

Also, you can buy more drones. I have 26 now which still isn't too many and with the hauler drones, they can do a 500+ order in a day or two.

[The Illusion]

Save it all for hydroponics. If you need to burn some of it, make concrete

[motorbit]

Originally posted by JeanDeaux:

Had you read through some other threads, the Dev's specifically stated that there are slag contracts that can be used to make $$$.

slag takes up so much space and the quantities are so high, that cargo pods and the value of 0 mean that its rather expensive to trade slag for science.


anyway, as the illusion said, concrete and food.
another solution would be to just store it in large bulk storage. you could just dismantle the storage when full, leaving a pile of 9000 slag on that spot while recovering most of the resources used to build it.

[Jorn Stones]

Simply use the regular bulk storage. dig out some hole near your base where you don't intend to ever build, and just daisy chain a ton of storages and add more as needed.
Get rid of single refineries too; they make much more slag than multis.