Generally speaking, the only things you should be overclocking are resource extractors to be able to feed more production from the same nodes; overclocking production machines doesn’t really make sense when you can just build more machines, space is pretty much the least limited resource in the game.
That said, there are exceptions and sometimes a little overclocking helps things balance out without weird machine counts that are hard to plan for, or if you just misplanned a space and expanding would mean tearing a lot out and redoing it
I’ve used over clocking for both my water and coal generators for a most likely perm ‘temp’ solution as I didn’t want so many water pumps or so many coal power generators but yes if you have the space and resources no need to overclock your machines
If you saw my first factory, I didn’t even start using foundations until somewhere mid phase 3, though I did have an intricate and elaborate weave of belts load balancing to get perfect counts… Manifolding didn’t really occur to me for quite a while either
What got me to finally use foundations was when I realized they had snap points which make lining systems up substantially simpler
Generally speaking, the only things you should be overclocking are resource extractors to be able to feed more production from the same nodes; overclocking production machines doesn’t really make sense when you can just build more machines, space is pretty much the least limited resource in the game.
That said, there are exceptions and sometimes a little overclocking helps things balance out without weird machine counts that are hard to plan for, or if you just misplanned a space and expanding would mean tearing a lot out and redoing it
I’ve used over clocking for both my water and coal generators for a most likely perm ‘temp’ solution as I didn’t want so many water pumps or so many coal power generators but yes if you have the space and resources no need to overclock your machines
I’m just over clocking my entire production chains I built the first time I learned of them. Planning? What is this, Prince2? :)
If you saw my first factory, I didn’t even start using foundations until somewhere mid phase 3, though I did have an intricate and elaborate weave of belts load balancing to get perfect counts… Manifolding didn’t really occur to me for quite a while either
What got me to finally use foundations was when I realized they had snap points which make lining systems up substantially simpler