What we learned

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• Tiers 1+2 as a separate chapters don't work - we can't really scale properly until we have coal and don't have to manually feed the biomass power generators. Recommend restructuring a scaled down chapter 1 "Getting to power independence", and then a chapter 2 "Power dependence" where we start to scale to 10 units p/min.
• Need to line up inputs with containers better. Steel products come from south. Copper from East. Iron from underneath. Concrete from East and West. Sulfur North
• Should build elevator items before Nuclear power - Nuclear power takes a long time and is a buffer build, rather than a requirement for the space elevator items
• Need to find better item adjacencies, to group items together better.
• Need to move key Nuclear processing to be closer
  • Uranium ore -> Uranium Fuel Rod
  • Uranium waste -> Plutonium processing
• refinery outputs as input loopbacks often cause bottlenecks, and probably aren't worth the trouble (AL water loops for one example)
  • possible fix: have a vertical intersection, and join the pumps on top
• Organize the space elevator parts into 4 towers
• Making trains longer than 2 freight trains is kinda silly
• October insights:
  • At the beggining, we need more reinforced plates. A lot more - maybe 10 p/min. It's a high demand item
  • While Heavy Modular Frames unlock in the tier 4 "Advanced Steel Production" milestone, you can't build a manufacturer to create heavy modular frames until you unlock the tier 5 "Industrial Manufacturing" milestone - so the automation of these should be pushed too.

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1 hour in: (Basic production of plates, rods, wire, cable, concrete and biomass)

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2 hours in: (Started basic consolidation of main base and production of rods, plates, reinforced plates)

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3 hours in: (Added rotors)

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4 hours in: (Added coal power for 300MW and space elevator)

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5 hours in: (expanded coal power and beginning modular frames and rotor factory)

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6 hours in: (double coal power and building mall)

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7 hours in: (collecting iron for rotors and modular frames):

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8 hours in (processing iron for rotors and modular frames):

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9 hours in (Finished Rotors + Modular Frames, built more 4 new coal power plants, and tapped first line to sulfur)

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10 hours in (Building steel factory and smart plating factory)

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11 hours in (Finished Steel factory (20 pipes + 30 steel plates p/min) and finishing Smart Plates factory)

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12 hours in: (Finished steel and smart plating factories)

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13 hours in (Added 4 more coal power plants)

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14 hours in (Added Encased Industrial Beams and scaled up steel manufacturing to handle)

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15 hours in (Doubled coal power generation to 2400MW)

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16 hours in (Tapped Caterium mine, and started reworking production to double mines to make capacity for upgraded steel factory to make space elevator parts)

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17 hours in: (Increased production with various iron and coal plants to double production for new steel factory)

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18 hours in (Scaled out steel factory)

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19 hours in (working on space elevator factory for Versatile Frameworks)

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20 hours in (working on space elevator factory for Automated Wiring)

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21 hours in (working on space elevator factory for Automated Wiring)

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22 hours: (working on space elevator factory for Automated Wiring)

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23 hours (setting up new motor factor, getting connections to coal)

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24 hours in (setting up new motor factory, connecting iron and copper)

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25 hours in (setting up new motor factory - wiring up iron smelters and rods, and reconnecting coal)

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26 hours in (finished motors factory)

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27 hours in (connected motors to main base and aligned sulfur delivery)

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28 hours in (connecting Quartz)

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29 hours in (finished connecting quartz and started quest to connect refineries in East)

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30 hours in (finished refinery to produce plastic and rubber)

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31 hours in (researched MAM items, built a jeep!)

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32 hours (manually building Heavy modular frames and computers to unlock more power to build a proper heavy modular frames and computer factory)

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33 hours (Tapping mines and scouting for heavy modular frames factory)

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34 hours in (Putting in heavy modular frames factory foundation and connecting resources)

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35 hours in (building heavy modular frames factory - wired up iron smelters)

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36 hours in (building heavy modular frames factory - wired up steel production)

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37 hours in (building heavy modular frames factory - wired up concrete and encased industrial beams production)

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38 hours in (building heavy modular frames factory - wired up iron processing, and hunting for cast screws hard drive)

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39 hours in (building heavy modular frames factory - wired up iron plates, and hunting for cast screws hard drive)

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40 hours in (building heavy modular frames factory - building screws since I was unsuccessful finding a cast screws hard drive)

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41 hours in. (heavy modular frames factory done - but there are power issues. Trying to resolve with fuel generators)

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42 hours in (fixed power issues, started to build a train system to connect home to refinery/heavy frames factories)

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43 hours in (trying to scale up refineries/ power to handle trains)

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44 hours in (Fixing power issues)

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45 hours in (Power problems fixed, starting to lay foundations for computer factory)

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46 hours in (building computer factory)

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47 hours in (building computer factory)

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48 hours in (finished computer factory build)

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49 hours in (Building the train between home and the refinery/heavy modular frames/computer factories)

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50 hours in (Building the train between home and the refinery/heavy modular frames/computer factories)