I HATE this game!

[mackster]

Seriously, I hate this game.

I have no life anymore (not that I had much of one anyway). I am now having nightmares of my mega-factories running out of mats and not performing 100% efficiency. I constantly want to wipe away everything I have done and redo it better, never really moving too far forward beyond coal/oil. I am never happy with the location of my starter base and forever moving it to look aesthetically better somewhere else. I have stopped playing every other game in my library. My wife may be divorcing me and my dog is seriously giving me the cold shoulder as I don't take him out anymore as I am locked in hours and hours of factory building. I seriously cannot decide how to make a storage network that works!

I am in dire need of potentially medical intervention at this point.

Anyone know of any good, helpful group therapy sites I can join? Are you also affected by this nasty piece of AAA madness (at least AAA in my view, regardless of its 'early access' status)

[kLuns]

It seems like you are suffering of unsatisfactory.

if you combine this video as end storage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf2krEoBuv0

with this
sorting system on a differnet place nearby:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5kWJ8lcQX0

So you make a seperate sorter factory next door

Note: When it's not unsatisfactory it might be industrial disease

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiT0mUDCRMU

[Shakuras]

... half expected a "mob are ruining my game, need a creative mode without them" topic.

[DrNewcenstein]

This game was the best part of the 2020 lockdowns when I was off work for 7 weeks.
Now I blow through my weekends off just laying foundations, go to work Mondays still needing to hook up belts and power lines.
It's awesome.

[The Big Brzezinski]

Spreadsheets will set you free. They are writ of binding that tames wild mathematics.

[Jimmy]

I yesterday dreamed from satisfactory and because of my bedroom is very chill, I was trying to find a way to warm myself using coal plants. But the plant didn't run constantly and I couldn't find out why. I woke up and found myself next to the blanked, got back under it and slept again - continuing my previous dream, but now the plant was running and I could go ahead and build a quarz factory.

[LostME]

Don't tell him about alternative recipes. XD

[Rymorea]

OOmy goodness, I have to tell this first " you are not alone :)" Today I go out for lunch, after a while my girlfriend stoprd me and say "I hate your conveyour design and hate you too" I shock and don't understand whats going on. After that she start to laugh and smile. Point me my plate. spagetti become lines of coveyors, peas become splitters / mergers, little potato fries become little machines and other vegtables other machines and the waiter looks to my partner like "do I take his plate or not ?" I took my phone and take a picture of design and let waiter took it. After taht dont think about satisfactory till everyone go to sleep at home at that time my dream starts again :)

[mackster]

One more strong feeling for me, fear!

I fear I will finally build the greatest mega factory the world has ever seen. Then update 6 will come and make me have to start a new save and face the biomass manual power route all over again.

Nnnnnoooooooooooo...........

Originally posted by The Big Brzezinski:

Spreadsheets will set you free. They are writ of binding that tames wild mathematics.

Yeah, I can totally see that - plus instead of working I can secretly plan my factories

[kLuns]

Originally posted by mackster:

One more strong feeling for me, fear!

I fear I will finally build the greatest mega factory the world has ever seen. Then update 6 will come and make me have to start a new save and face the biomass manual power route all over again.

Nnnnnoooooooooooo...........

If you make buffers in the supply lines of your power generation you could restart it on this buffer (storage container in coal supply works as a "solid buffer" for example),
without grabbing the chainsaw to chop trees or the xeno basher to slay stingers to burn their guts.

[Wasur]

As common as this is in all of us maybe we should start a support group? oh wait nvm, that is what discord is I guess?! I'm just not very sociable since I spend all my time trying to improve my factories.

[Wasur]

OP, Great post BTW!

[NNTorro]

This is just the beginning)))

[headhunter]

I need more aluminium

[Namaride]

Originally posted by LostME:

Don't tell him about alternative recipes. XD

This is my reason i hate this game.
About to finish a nice setup for supercomputers when i found a better alternative..

[umop-apisdn]

Originally posted by Namaride:

Originally posted by LostME:

Don't tell him about alternative recipes. XD

This is my reason i hate this game.
About to finish a nice setup for supercomputers when i found a better alternative..

I'm of two minds on this subject.

One method of dealing with this is to run around and grab all the hard drives, using them to find all the alternates available; if you run out of recipes to discover, the hard drive is refunded, so there's no danger of loss. When you unlock a new milestone, toss another hard drive into the MAM and see what comes out. This is the method I use on my "main" save/session.

The other method is to plan everything out as if alternate recipes don't exist... and then ignore the crashed pods, because if you use a hard drive then you can't pretend alternate recipes don't exist. The save I did that in has been entertaining, so far, and felt much less like I was being pulled in multiple directions by a plethora of available options.

Note: I have multiple "worlds" because I start new ones all the time in order to try things out, or just to be mindless in my building. I find it entertaining to completely ignore a segment of the gameplay and see how it changes the feel of the game. Your mileage may vary, etc.