Remove Blueprints from the game?

[Jumbo Shrimp]

Blueprints being useless for 10s or reasons that have been documented, would it be better to remove them from the game completely? Just to reduce the anger of the players and not purposely increase their blood pressure and cortisol levels.

Amy repetitive larger scale building naturally makes people think: This would make a good Blueprint, only to realize how useless and non-functional the blueprints are (mainly due to miniature size). Only making users angry.

Blueprints demonstrate that developers not only have contempt for their users, their time, their health, but also mockery.

Where does the mockery come in? After having to build larger scale factories and railroad network during Tier 7 and Tier 8, which could have been done with 1/5th of the repetitive effort, devs offer Mk3 level blueprint in Tier 9.

And then, they laugh in our faces: "and it's still useless".

For Blueprints to be useful, they would become available right after railroad, and be either unlimited or a size that can easily fit 1+4 train station with all the approaches. At minimum.

But ideally, unlimited size, like other factory building games do. And, ability to capture any construction of any size as a blueprint. Building blueprints blind, without ability to debug them with real flow of goods is dumb. The entire approach to blueprints in Satisfactory is dumb.

[EternalArchon]

Blueprints are great and very useful. They make you build 10x faster. The game is so easy, can’t see how you’d need more than that.

As for railroads and roads I always thought what devs really need is a construction vehicle — something you drive which lays down foundations in front and track behind. Zooping fixed much of that, but I’d still enjoy it.

[Fenix]

I 100 percent disagree, I find the Blueprints very useful so I don't have to repeat the same layouts over and over again.
I have these Blueprints i can spam down, and with minimum effort hook them together.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3348437842
Iron and copper ingots to RIPs and Wet Concrete

[Jumbo Shrimp]

Originally posted by Fenix:

I 100 percent disagree, I find the Blueprints very useful so I don't have to repeat the same layouts over and over again.
I have these Blueprints i can spam down, and with minimum effort hook them together.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3348437842
Iron and copper ingots to RIPs and Wet Concrete

How about a picture of your refinery factory blueprint?

[Fenix]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3348443448
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3348443598

Now mind you I'm using a AGS save with a mk3 designer to make these BPs for a Phase 3 non-AGS save.

[Sasheria]

Blueprints are great. I have a set (using 5x5) for smelter, constructor, assembler and manufacturer (granted the BP has 1) but the cool part is that when I build thing, I can have prebuilt with storage or staging storage all in one. It is great (and pre-connect to power) so all I have to do is set the recipe and connect to the power network.

I do not understand why people think this is a bad thing.

[Fenix]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3348449288

[Jumbo Shrimp]

Originally posted by Fenix:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3348443448
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3348443598

Now mind you I'm using a AGS save with a mk3 designer to make these BPs for a Phase 3 non-AGS save.

Barely fits a simplistic set up, and only to become available after you have needed it. Not when you would want it.

Now how about your train station blueprint?

[Fenix]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3347956107
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3347955990
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3342622402

[Man's Best Friend]

Look, just because some very vocal people can't figure out how to work with blueprints doesn't mean they're useless. I've been making great use of them to build out my factory since it's so easy to just slap down new machines. They're not even fancy blueprints, but they eliminate a ton of work in repetitive belting and making buildings.

[ShelLuser]

People are getting really desperate for them Steam awards, eh?

I mean, otherwise I don't think anyone would spout of such nonsense. And I call it nonsense because even for casual players such as myself who fully embrace chaotic building styles and plenty of spaghetti... the blueprint designer is plain out invaluable.

How hard can it be to think this over? I was getting ready to work on steel but without the dimensional depot I'm having issues to check how much materials I'm going to need. And I don't want to keep running back and forth.

So... I made myself 2 designs using the blueprint designer, and once I had saved these I cleared the blueprint designer before building the next stage. Once I was done all I had to do was grab all the materials from the chest and... done.

No worries about materials, no need to rebuild stuff... I could literally walk out to the area which I was planning to use, drop down the blueprint, move things into their proper place and.... wham. I'm done.

No foundation, no "design", no nothing. Just a "build" which I prepped in my main base (next to my main storage) and which I could then disassemble and reassemble somewhere else.

OP... if this is already bothering you then I don't think you're going to have much fun with this game.

[Fenix]

if I need to got up or down with rails
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3348455086
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3348455039
I still have to delete a section of rail to attach them.... but beats having to do this over and over.

[GAMING_Alligator]

Hell no!

[Fenix]

I really just want vertical nudge, I can deal with the rest.
Also I was doing this in u8 on 4x4 BPs
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3164517271
the 6x6 just give me room to play with.

[AIM-9X]

You dont need that big of a blueprint, I have been doing just fine.

[Sasheria]

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

People are getting really desperate for them Steam awards, eh? :SquirrelDoll:

I mean, otherwise I don't think anyone would spout of such nonsense. And I call it nonsense because even for casual players such as myself who fully embrace chaotic building styles and plenty of spaghetti... the blueprint designer is plain out invaluable.

How hard can it be to think this over? I was getting ready to work on steel but without the dimensional depot I'm having issues to check how much materials I'm going to need. And I don't want to keep running back and forth.

So... I made myself 2 designs using the blueprint designer, and once I had saved these I cleared the blueprint designer before building the next stage. Once I was done all I had to do was grab all the materials from the chest and... done.

No worries about materials, no need to rebuild stuff... I could literally walk out to the area which I was planning to use, drop down the blueprint, move things into their proper place and.... wham. I'm done.

No foundation, no "design", no nothing. Just a "build" which I prepped in my main base (next to my main storage) and which I could then disassemble and reassemble somewhere else.

OP... if this is already bothering you then I don't think you're going to have much fun with this game.

yea.. Can you build everything manully? sure you can :)

I agree. When you start expanding to do some massive build. It is a whole lot easier to drop different blueprint and just "click and merge" like electricity, pipes, rails etc.

Heck.... I am still impress by people who build some serious 6x6 blueprint that can build a lot of stuff vertically that is slick and beautiful (I am not where near that) but I do like my blue print that I can spin up my new bases much faster.