Help i cant stop remaking my entire factory from scratch!

[Septic Feast]

everytime i get a new idea on how to make my factory better i delete the entire thing and rebuild it, just to do it again later.
how do i stop myself?

[AtlasMKx]

I think that is meant to be part of the game. I do the same thing. Feels good to see new ideas work out.

[Sono]

You don't. Just let it happen.
You will usually go through several iterations of your base in a single play through. As you gain access to more tech and logistics options, your base design and footprint will radically change. Same for outposts and local processing plants. No matter how well you try to prepare for your future base, you will always find the need to expand and redesign your builds the longer you play.

Don't be afraid to tear everything down and re-do it. Specially as you get more and more alt recipes. Tear those old coal generators down, and make obscene amounts of turbo fuel, then heavy turbo fuel.

Tearing your stuff down and putting up better versions is better than leaving old stuff in place, by far. If you find you are basically having to re-do everything a couple hundred hours into your play-through, it's about time to start a new map and use what you learned in your previous play-through.

[Sono]

Also... Something I've seen a few people around the internet doing is designing their base like a modular factory. Everything is done in stackable cubes, with exact power and item input/outputs. This is a fairly good option, as it lends alot of uniformity to your early and late game base in one swoop.

For example, they would have a room that just does 20 rotors a minute. Each room can be stacked on each other, because it has the same exact layout for each one. Modular factories can be an interesting solution to this problem, if you're interested in do the design work in blue print fashion.

[DaBa]

Why would you stop if it's fun to you?

[Bill]

I started and deleted over a dozen games before I found a reasonable balance of layout, production, and aesthetics. My only advice, don't build all your factories in one area, spread out your iron, copper, etc. production; makes it easier to upgrade later.

[Honorable_D]

Instead of deleting everything you built, why not move to a different zone of the map? Start over in a new area and use what you learned to build better.

[Bobucles]

One of the great game tipping points is learning that the resource nodes aren't spaced too far apart, but rather they are packed too close together.

Leave LOTS of room for factory growth and try to smelt on site. It's one of the reasons vanilla could really benefit from a bulk foundation tool.

[derebelizer]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Honorable_D:

Instead of deleting everything you built, why not move to a different zone of the map? Start over in a new area and use what you learned to build better.

Exactly! This game is not limited to a handful of resources so there's no reason to start from scratch if you can build in addition!

[Blaine]

OP, also make sure you're giving yourself plenty of room. When I was new to Factorio, I tried to build everything compactly and was constantly tearing it down just to repurpose my small area for something else.

One good thing came out of that. After 1,000+ hours playing Factorio, I'm very good at compacting when I need to be, even though I long ago learned to give myself space.

Początkowo opublikowane przez Sono:

Don't be afraid to tear everything down and re-do it. Specially as you get more and more alt recipes. Tear those old coal generators down, and make obscene amounts of turbo fuel, then heavy turbo fuel.

Tearing your stuff down and putting up better versions is better than leaving old stuff in place, by far.

In this game, you might as well leave your old base feeding stuff into the Sink, move somewhere else on the map, on start entirely fresh, grabbing stuff from the old factory's hoppers as needed.

Obviously, if you've colonized everyplace on the map... well, by then it's probably time to put the game down for a while anyway.

[Aquarius]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Honorable_D:

Instead of deleting everything you built, why not move to a different zone of the map? Start over in a new area and use what you learned to build better.

I can't recommend this enough. I started out in the grasslands and then moved to the two desert areas on the map and along the coast for a change of scenery. The map for this game is really great. Explore it and build everywhere and then when you get trains link all your bases together if you want. I love this game.