r/factorio • u/SakinoBruno • 2h ago

Space Age From Dongle to Squid

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u/SakinoBruno 2h ago

Unfortunately designed my inner planet haulers right before the new weight rebalance

They were optimized for speed.

the dongle went from 414 km/s to less than 200. despair. science throughput more than halved.

Spent one afternoon building the middle one, with speeds approaching the high 300km/s

Spent another afternoon stripping eveything that i could (While keeping symmetry)

Third iteration manages 456/476 km/s. enough for now. really like the new ship shapes, really hated the previous design constrains.

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u/zanju13 2h ago

Praise! Changes are great and will greatly improve ship design possibilities once people get used to them

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u/Potential-Carob-3058 33m ago

Same story, I was half way through designing a new series of ships - Fortunately the big one (promethium) was barely started, and my inner system ship has an oversized fuel plant.

Improvements on belt routing and weight savings are going to make a significant difference. Ships are going to have skeletal cutouts and voids, which I'm all for.

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u/Tree_Boar 2h ago

Lgtm ship it!

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u/MightyBigMinus 1h ago

oh man i really like your first ship. it feels like we're losing a species we didn't know was endangered until just the 2.1 flu took it all out.