Mass Building Foundations

[Vegetable Vampire]

I am the point now where building in natural terrain is no longer a viable option so I started using foundations. My plan was to go to the highest spot that surrounds my base and start building a nice and sorted factory from there. It got tedious very fast so I looked up whether or not there was a faster way to do this. There is not, at least not officially in the game. But there is a mod for it. I refuse to use that mod because it kind of feels like cheating and I don't think the game would need something like the Area Action mod as an actual mechanic. But something I would really appreciate are 24x24 foundations. Or at least 5x5. Just something to reduce that tedious, boring and pointless aligning of the crosshair to one foundation after another and doing that about 20000 times, just for the floor.
I really don't understand why there are only these tiny foundations. I can pull a huge space lift out of my butt, but not a 24x24 foundation. How and why should that make sense?

[War Wizard Grymzst]

Its been covered on the satisfactory official Q&A page. and we might see it in the future.

that being said.. there IS a mod out there...

[Vegetable Vampire]

Originally posted by GreenBeret63Echo:

Its been covered on the satisfactory official Q&A page. and we might see it in the future.

that being said.. there IS a mod out there...

Yes, I know, I mentioned the mod. My point, that i cannot be THAT hard to add 24x24 foundations.

[Mentize]

Quickest way I've found to place foundations is place your first row the hard way (Place, move forward, place, move forward, etc)

Once that's down, align yourself with your left right on the edge you want to expand, facing down the runway of foundation you just built. You can then sprint forward, placing foundations to your left/right as quick as you can run.

[sansee]

Originally posted by Mentize:

Quickest way I've found to place foundations is place your first row the hard way (Place, move forward, place, move forward, etc)

Once that's down, align yourself with your left right on the edge you want to expand, facing down the runway of foundation you just built. You can then sprint forward, placing foundations to your left/right as quick as you can run.

Yes, running like that makes it easy and really fast to build huge platforms of foundations (without any mod).

[jamesc70]

The fastest way is to lay a long line of foundations, and then back up so you see them going off into the distance...

Then put the ghost 'to build' foundation as far away as you can get it and just hit left mouse continually... it will build an entire line of foundations from that first ghost to where you currently are, without having to actually point at the right spot.

[WSkD]

Originally posted by jamesc70:

The fastest way is to lay a long line of foundations, and then back up so you see them going off into the distance...

Then put the ghost 'to build' foundation as far away as you can get it and just hit left mouse continually... it will build an entire line of foundations from that first ghost to where you currently are, without having to actually point at the right spot.

This.
Of course 5x5 or 24x24 would also be nice, but with this method I can build fast and still account for eges/pillars/boulders (not just rockst)/...

[REDACTED]

Just use the world editor and select to use resources. Its not cheating just saves you hours of tedious clicking when building big.

[Vegetable Vampire]

Originally posted by jamesc70:

The fastest way is to lay a long line of foundations, and then back up so you see them going off into the distance...

Then put the ghost 'to build' foundation as far away as you can get it and just hit left mouse continually... it will build an entire line of foundations from that first ghost to where you currently are, without having to actually point at the right spot.

Originally posted by Mentize:

Quickest way I've found to place foundations is place your first row the hard way (Place, move forward, place, move forward, etc)

Once that's down, align yourself with your left right on the edge you want to expand, facing down the runway of foundation you just built. You can then sprint forward, placing foundations to your left/right as quick as you can run.

I have tried this before and I find it just as tedious. I even found a method where you can sprint forward and place foundations to the side and in front of you simultaneously, by specifically aligning the cross hair, essentially doubling the speed. And still: tedious.

Originally posted by D.B. Cooper:

Just use the world editor and select to use resources. Its not cheating just saves you hours of tedious clicking when building big.

Well, it kind of is. It's like saying: "I could get good at game X by playing a lot and training efficiently, but it just saves a lot of hours to use aimbot/money-hack/no_clip." Cheats are part of a game, too. And especially in single player they have a legitimate place, but this is not the way I would want to play a game. Of course it is subjective what one considers cheating. My threshold is different than yours and that's okay, because no one's fun is being denied in a game as Satisfactory because it is single-player/co-op.
I just would like it, if the devs added something like 24x24 foundations. I would consider this addition a legitimate tool, whereas world editing would feel kind of wrong to me.