Satisfactory

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

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.

Done.

Buddies on my server kinda sped run through it.

Sharing 'magic pocket' and sloops made the game go by WAY too fast.

As expected when I heard the changes, there is zero incentive to figure out proper logistics.

All the parts available in giant magic inventory, just power shard + sloop your way through it,

Seriously, the end game resources to send took <hour with only 1 or 2 buildings.

There is absolutely no incentive to build a larger factory.

We finished the game with a factory 1/4 the size I've ever created in a playthrough.

Building our my computer factory to finish T3. Still need to do heavy modular frames

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.

Just getting to steel. Stupid work needing me to do stuff so my paycheck gets me food. Stupid meat bag.

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.

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.

Still haven't found time and motivation simultaneously.

I feel like I would've gotten to oil pretty quickly then burned out again. But could be different with the mixed up tier trees

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.

I did a rocky desert start at a site I don't normally use for anything, built a starter base, got my Project Tower partially built, I've got a good start on my steel mill and I've got some starter plastic and rubber in production at a temporary slap-it-down refinery.

I struggle to keep track of phases/tiers/milestones, I'm working on the second payload to the space elevator and I've just unlocked trains. I've got a LOT to build before I pull the Space Elevator handle a second time, the Desert Automated Manufacturing Node, the West Heavy Oil Residue Extractor, and a lot of railroad need to be put in place.

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.

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!

I still haven't finished mourning my factory being obsolete by 1.0 to start.

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...

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?

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!

Just cracked space elevator 2 and unlocked tier 5 and 6 research.

Tier 2, started the first time in rocky desert, which seems to be little bit more difficult.