Pretty sure they came up with the idea mostly for the challenge, and since most of the heavy lifting code-wise seems to be done you might as well keep Twinsen busy. The recent-ish blog post about the Switch port makes it pretty clear that it was a passion project due to the coder liking the Switch, that they decided to monetize.
Not at all. The players are untreated autists with hyperfocus, not ADHD kids.
Well, of course. Because that distracts you from who you really should want to string up from the nearest lamp post, which is the politician.
Robots to move the ammo to the guns and the inserters used to pull the ammo out have a circuit or logistic condition so that it never makes more than what I need
Trains, use trains to take the resources to where you make the thing you need then load it onto a train to go else where you need it
What does that look like? I guess I connect all the guns together into a logistics network but how do I know how many guns I need to feed? I guess each gun has a constant combinator next to it?
So you have an entire section that just produces green/red circuits? I like that.
Not really, a set up like this is all you need. The 4th turret isn't really needed but it's there to show how many you can feed from one chest also you can have inserters daisy chain off one turret so there's only one requesting but it'll feed the whole line, just space them out and remember to put power poles for the inserters (I'm using the editor mod in this image)
Not just red and green, I have sections for everything you need to progress in the game, using trains is the best way of transporting materials over long distances and reduces the cost of making enough belts to go from one place to another
Trains are when the real autism kicks into gear. Before my last playthrough I used trains for small things but never a large network. Once you start maximizing train usage the game really opens up.
Then when you get tired of the trains only having a max speed of 329kph you get supersonic trains mod to make trains that can go up to 7000kph
Because who needs to see what ran them over, am I right?
If you're getting ran over, that's a skill issue on your part really.
Idk if this would feel like cheating to you as well, but there are tools that will tell you exactly how much of each machine you need to produce a science pack every x seconds. They helped me a lot with keeping my factory in order. A main bus helps a ton, and it shouldn’t really be necessary to copy and paste one since they’re all mostly the same.
Flamethrowers work well on biters because of the area effect. The longer range of lasers are more effective on spitters.
