• wirelesswire@lemmy.zipEnglish
      16·
      1 month ago

      I’d like to think I’m an engineer, but if we’re being honest, I’m much closer to chef.

    • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      81·
      1 month ago

      I’m flattered!

      The tower was not very complicated to build, the harder part was fitting all the machines in the limited room on each floor, and keeping track of materials between layers, as you can see:

      That isn’t a drone port, i don’t have drones (or fuel for the jetpack 😬) unlocked. It’s actually the hub.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      Also a dirty engineer, and proud.

      In my MP games, I get things done. You want things to look pretty, do it yourself.

    • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      21·
      1 month ago

      It’s absurdly addictive, it’s hard to explain to your family why you’re having fun making spreadsheets for the game

          • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            It occurred to me that I was basically day trading in eve, and spending a ton of time learning systems, and researching deals, and that if I’m going to do that, I should do it IRL, for real money.

    • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      Done and Done, thank you!

      My tower is 4x3 then 4x4, it was definitely a challenge fitting stuff in there.

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        Then you build up stators to help comp for that, then you build some skywalks between the two… one of my favorite things is building cyberpunk style cities as the factory grows

  • Mercuri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 month ago

    Wow, it’s like we’re not even playing the same game. All my stuff is out in the open with tall stacks of conveyor belts everywhere.

    • stringereEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      Still on my first playthrough amd my “factory” is a collection of what I had to build at any moment connected where it has to be for the next step. Other than a few rebuilt spots here and there. Last night was the quest for more coal and a lesson in power grid management. Next up to tackle is better water pressure optimization.

  • MudMan@fedia.io
    10·
    1 month ago

    I weep for the hours you’ve invested in this without even getting paid.

    I weep more for the hours I’m going to invest trying to replicate this out of sheer jealousy.

    • talentedkiwiEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      I wonder if making a blueprint for the floors would be easy enough. Might make the whole thing a lot quicker.

      • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        each floor is unique in the interest of compactness, so it wouldnt help THAT much. (i didnt use blueprints)

  • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 month ago

    And here I am just making my motors by hand like a chump. You know, maybe it’s time I get off my ass and build something cool like this. Iron and coal processing and smelting on the first level, ingot splitting to wire on the second, pipe making on the third, have a vertical line that’ll start pumping out rotors from processing, then a bank of assemblers at the top floor to churn out motors and to line them back down.