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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51 hours in (Connected train, and deliveries of heavy modular frames, computers and circuit boards to home setup.)

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52 hours in (started to build space elevator parts and ran out of power - building more fuel generators on West coast)

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53 hours in (built new fuel generators on West coast)

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54 hours in (finishing phase 3 space elevator parts)

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55 hours in (Railway to west refinery, and waiting for space elevator phase 3 items to finish)

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56 hours (added second track back from refinery and reconfigured basin refinery to be 100% plastic)

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57 hours (awaiting space elevator parts. Tapping coal to make black power to unlock rifles)

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58 hours (building new AL factory foundations in rocky desert)

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59 hours (building AL factory - connecting copper)

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60 hours (building AL factory - adding AL ingots factories)

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61 hours (building AL factory, connecting Quartz for Silcon production)

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62 hours (building AL factory, finished connecting up quartz and silica processing and now connecting raw AL)

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63 hours. (building AL factory, connecting Bauxite)

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64 hours (finished AL factory)

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65 hours (fixing production lines)

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66 hours (building Crystal Oscillator factory)

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67 hours (building Crystal Oscillator factory)

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68 hours (built a Radio Control Unit factory, now preparing to scale out computers for super computer factory, starting with connecting new refineries for more plastic)

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69 hours in (building super-computers, but overloaded the power network and working to resolve)

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70 hours in (Building super-computer factory. Created power override to easily restart power again)

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71 hours (upgrading computer factory for super-computers)

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72 hours (Scaling up computer factory for super computers)

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73 hours (Scaling up computer factory for super computers)

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74 hours (building up additional quickwire and cable supplies for super-computer factory)

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75 hours in (building super computer factory at home)

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76 hours in (Finished super-computer factory)

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77 hours (Building new battery factory in the swamp - first we need a train track...)

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78 hours in (building battery factory)

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79 hours in (planning for Geyser power)

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80 hours (building new heat sink and cooling unit factory)

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81 hours (building new heat sink and cooling unit factory, scaling out rubber first)

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82 hours in (building heat sink and cooling unit factory, scaling out rubber and starting to work towards nitrogen)

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83 hours in (building heat sink and cooling unit factory, connecting Nitrogen)

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84 hours in (building heat sink and cooling unit factory, connecting rubber and AL plates with Nitrogen to start making heat sinks)

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85 hours in (building heat sink and cooling unit factory)

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86 hours in (built heat sink and cooling unit factory)

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87 hours (Consolidation and planning for Fused modular frames)

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88 hours (building Fused modular frames factory, scaling up AL)

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89 hours (building Fused modular frames factory, scaling up AL)

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90 hours (building Fused modular frames factory, scaling up AL)

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91 hours (building Fused module frames factory, scaling up AL)

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92 hours (building Fused module frames factory)

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93 hours (building Fused module frames factory)

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94 hours (building Electromagnetic Rods factory)

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95 hours (building Electromagnetic Rods factory - processing Cat + Copper)

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96 hours (building Electromagnetic Rods factory)

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97 hours (built Electromagnetic Rods factory)

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98 hours in (building turbo motors and moving main train station)

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99 hours in (building Nuclear power stations - starting by establishing a train stop)

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100 hours in (building Nuclear power stations, building nuclear reactors and connecting water and belts)