cross-posted from: https://hackertalks.com/post/4670602
Introducing a vertical circular bus - A giant O of belts and lifters fully connected allowing for input / output anywhere along the bus.
Pros :
- Modular, you can build anywhere on the vertical bus stack
- Limits spaghetti by providing a clear and easy to access API for all players.
- Very fast to reach all parts of the factory since everything is very concentrated into a cube of productivity.
Cons :
- Satisfactory netcode doesn't like SUPER dense areas, so it could become problematic for multiplayer.
- There is no priority mergers yet in Satisfactory, so if you want to prioritize a input to the bus you downgrade the belts/lifters feeding INTO the priority input, that way the belt will back up and the priority input will provide the bulk of the material.
Details/Photo Galleries:
- Vertical Bus Details https://hackertalks.com/post/4670602/5288896
- Demonstration of the Vertical Bus in a base: https://hackertalks.com/post/4670602/5288887
- Prototyping details https://hackertalks.com/post/4670602/5288866
Yeah, I don't know how to make organized post galleries in lemmy; So I used comments in the satisfactory post to dive into details... that doesn't jive well with cross-posting.
7 days until factorio releases, so now is a great time to warm up and finish satisfactory!
Massively different games, I think Satisfactory is more about factory painting and designing pleasing aesthetics; There are some puzzles, but mostly the puzzles are working around the UI's clunky CAD.
One reason I like using a well defined Interface in a factory building game is it makes it super easy for divide and conquer. The vertical bus grew slowly as I added elements to the Bus, each step in the factory chain was a single production line with well defined inputs and outputs. Very manageable.
For initial production runs I only build a single machine, just get the hookups setup, only if I find the bus starving later will i expand out the line, but because its all vertical into the sky, there are no limits on expanding a production line. Honestly, I feel like I played the game on super easy mode. Add production to Bus, ohh, not going fast enough - whatever dependency is starving go to its production line and expand it a bit.... That was the entirety of my planning, a very simple feedback loop
I'm in AWE of the people who make a single monolithic factory to build one component at scale! That's a ton of planning!