I started in the Northern Forest, and took my time building up some factories to deal with all those pure iron nodes, and I’m just about to finish tier four. Has anyone been blazing a trail through the tiers? I’m curious what tier most folks are on.

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    I finished the first phase of the space elevator, maxed out tier 3 and 4, then got distracted trying to get coal power up and running before moving on. I was getting tired of running back and forth, constantly feeding leaves and wood into a production line for solid biofuel so I’m not dependent on biomass generators anymore.

    The last thing I did was set up a steel production factory using two iron nodes, a nearby pure coal node, a copper node, and a limestone node. I’m producing tons of steel pipes and beams, then feeding about 2/3rds of them into another production line to make stators and encased industrial beams, respectively. Once I’ve built up a respectable supply, I’ll dedicate my time toward finishing phase 2 of the space elevator so I can unlock tier 5 and 6.

    My wife is playing for the first time, and despite spending way more time than me building her factories, she’s barely done with tier 3. I have over 600 hours in Satisfactory, so while I’m taking my time and enjoying the journey, my experience with the game means I’m progressing much faster than her. But she’s really into the math of it, trying to squeeze every ounce of power and resource production out of her factories, so she’s going to have a much better build than me by the end.

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    I’m only 5 hours into my 1.0 save (I have over 1,100 hours total), having already cleared Tier 1 and 2. I’m especially thrilled that the biomass burners have a conveyor input now so I don’t have to manually feed each one! My next goal is getting my blade runners and building a coal power plant.

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    I’m currently over-engineering the starter base, I plan for tubes, increases in throughput, change of input requirements due to alternative recipes and separating the power grid to be able to toggle specific parts on and off. I soon want to produce reinforced iron plates…

    Have currently the milestone for coal selected and am about half way. But my doggy collection grows I am at 5 dogs now.

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    I got basic steel and coal power up and running. Started in the Northern Forest this time, but I got annoyed pretty fast with the lack of flat space to build. So I moved my HUB to the Grass fields because I haven’t build there in a long time and it’s actually really beautiful. Currently building my base around the HUB and will move to advanced steel soon.

    Oh, and I also rushed the collection of mercer spheres because the Dimensional Depot is absolutely amazing!

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    Just cheesed my way into tier 8, now I have to make a new proper base somewhere and just ignore the old spaghetti, just bought computers from the shop to pass all tiers.

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    My wife and I have been putzing with coal power and blueprints and experimenting with architecture for 3 days now. Haven’t really done anything productive in that time. Have completed Tier 3, and part of Tier 4.

    I’m on the verge of declaring blueprints to be more trouble than they’re worth. Anyone else?

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      Blueprints are wonderful in Factorio. Satisfactory added them as a heavily gimped afterthought and it unfortunately shows. Between that and never really caring much about the story of a factory game, I still can’t work up the desire to try it again.

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      I haven’t had any real success with blueprints. I tried using them for some wall patterns, but they just refuse to line up properly.

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    I just got into tier 6 today and burned through some milestones. This is my fourth play through though so I basically rushed everything with bad spaghetti just to get trains.

    Now the real work begins!

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      Same. One of my buddies has put our world on a dedicated server at some vps farm so it’s always online now. Which was a project of itself

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    Started in the desert, moved east to be closer the the coal/steel/oil. I’m currently setting up aluminium, which is insanely far away…

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    I just started today right around when I should’ve been getting to sleep. Got iron plates, rods, and screws as well as wires automated before forcing myself to stop.

    I first (and last) played in I think update 5. It was a major PITA getting Proton to run it. I had gotten the space elevator built, but pretty sure I didn’t progress beyond that before a patch hit that caused the game to not even launch anymore.

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    I my group’s server just unlocked hyper tubes. But the real measure we are using is how many slugs are on the belts that make up our slug racing league.

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    I picked up a game server with Indifferent broccoli thinking my friends and I could build mega factories with all that sweet sweet server ram. Set the server to not pause on exit. Build my initial product lines and let the server build items while I sleep. I had damn near infinite building supplies by the second day and one friend came on, complained about the start area, and restarted the game in his preferred starting area. And haven’t seen anyone since. Meanwhile I’m on Tier 6 and have built entire tube subway lines for my friends to head to all corners of the map. And all I get in discord is “sweet” and “great” literally these same guys were talking non-stop and played for hours when I got an abiotic factor server, and beat it in a week. They even voted on Satisfactory as the next game.

    Bummed