Bottleneck Firmarlite Bars

[TargetLost]

Is this really how it should be?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3263719172

You see after discovering that I can't get the Firmarlite Bars down from the Station despite haveing 4 Recivers and 20+ Transport ships while some where idle and NO Bottleneck in the Firmarlite Reciving Warhouse and Firmarlite Bar processing itself I figured that the down transport is simple too slow.

With that setup you archive maybe 1000 Bars per 75 sec.
That is no where near what you can produce and sell from a single Robo Assembly line not even running at full speed.

So I observed the ship and saw that they were traveling very slow hench the ONLY way to archive any speed in getting the Bar's down from the Station is to make the travel path as short as possible and this means to build the Recivers at 0/0 and at a hight of 256 (I went with 240)

So after this I had 8 red reciever Warhouses (4 at the old plac eand 4 new up the sky) and some 40 Transportships and of course no bottle necks in the Bar processing.

With that setup I got to 7000 Bars each 75 sec tick which is just enough for my robot capacity. Mind you I have not even one single Robo Assembly running at full speed yet.

I mean yes after building that it has a surreal touch and why not but I think this shouldn't be that we have to stick to such measures. It should work with a normal build on the ground too.

So my conclusion is: I think the devs should overthink the Firmarlite Bar Station Bottleneck thing.

I don't really like that we have to include the Station in order to build something but that is another topic. But if you make it that way then it should at least not be the limiting game factor IMO.

Anyway I am over 100 hours in and the game is really awesome. Excellent job!
Never had a crash. And hardly any noticable bugs.

The only a bit problematic thing is now that my Factory is really really large I get down to 10 FPS and with this a lot of the double clicks don't really works anymore and the conveour run backwards visuell.

[Thunde]

It's a problem with the current endgame, that you need to build lots of production factories to make it work. But when you do it the game slows down to 10fps, it looks like it's the game engine that can't handle to big factories. Satisfactory have much less lag when doing a big factory, same with Factorio.

[TargetLost]

So I "finished" the game and achived the maximum possible robo assembly line speed.

Full speed Robo Assemblyline: 32 Robots/min

That makes 40 Robots each 75 sec tick
A Robo gives 200 firmarlite bars so this adds up to 8000 firmarlite bars each 75 sec

This seems to be the only way to get that amount downfrom the station:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3267167612

(I have 12 Transportship-Ports not all are needed maybe 8 or 9 could be enough)

Then you have to convert that fluid into firmarlite sheets which takes an insane amount of this casters I don't even know how many they are:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3267166325

And also notice the many storages in the back. If you don't have enough firmarlite sheet storage capacity the whole thing will stop working.

I have 2 blast furnaces (iron and copper) for the plate and rods production
This makes 2 green belt iron ore (8 vein miners)
and 2 green belt techno ore (8 vein miners)
And then I also have the advanced mixed ore for the steel the green belt on the right (8 + 4 vein miners)
yes I belted all the 2 km from then veins to the fabric
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3267166573

And I have 700 large solarpanels

All that seems to be absolutly required in order to get the Robo assembly line to run at full speed.

Not sure if I missinterpreted the target of this game.

Took me 160 hours in RL.

Enoyed it! Don't worry. Excellent game.

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3267166484

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3267167812

[hirn78]

My Firmalite sheets are the bottleneck. The conversion rate from bars to sheets is atrocious.