/egg/ - Engineering Games General

AFAIK the forum people have known this for a while and have been building gradually better engines. Personally, I've stopped giving a shit and started using bang-bang controlled steam engines. They are cheap, easy to design and very power dense.

rail costs 5c per tile, arm costs 20c, piston 30c. So if you only want to move one tile, they are the same (2*5 + 20). I see now that I could use pistons on rails to shave 4 tiles off of space here.

The main thing that got me was you using 3 rails and a normal arm just to move the product one space.

Why does factorio-man run like he's just shit himself?

She hasn't changed out of those coveralls since landing, so they're getting clammy down south.

>stopped using other peoples blueprints for factorioexcept the mall because Im inept still, but i will do my own mall next game
>actually getting serious satisfaction over my shitty spaghetti builds when they actually work well
Whoever would have guessed that actually playing the game instead of copying others work would be fun

just make it to bots and build everything using requester chests and provider chests t bh

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>tfw Besiege doesn't have elves as enemies
I wonder if they'll think of that for the last region

I really wish
I want to remove knife-ears

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Am I wasting my time setting up a base with an auto-miner, refinery, block fabricator and black hole thing? I want to get the resources automatically sent to my inventory but it's not clear to me whether the base is actually simulated when the player is elsewhere.

what game?

TerraTech

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kilo, mega, giga
and don't use imperial as an excuse, you already know those from hdd sizes
besides, you're an eggineer, you should know these things

Giga what my nigga?
You don't just say Giga without a suffix.
Million at least refers to a number

What caused you to play terratech? I've only been here a few years but you're the only terratech poster I've ever seen

Not him, but I just wanted a simple /egg/ game to play on my time off

>>Personally, I've stopped giving a shit

You should try, it's easy enough to get a decent efficiency now. You don't need pipes going fucking everywhere, you can just line up the turbos, grab the exhaust and run it through all of them.

Pic related, 5x6x11, 1288 PPF. The only hard part is that you usually want to put turbos down and pipe the exhaust to them, but the builder only lets you put them down with an exhaust port already touching a pipe or solid surface, so there's a lot of fucking around with temporary wooden blocks.

Everyone uses 'k' to mean 1000 without anything after it.

>designing engines in ftd
Wew. Engine building could be a complex game in itself. I leave that to the professionals.

>Giga what my nigga?
>You don't just say Giga without a suffix.

You can in a context where the meaning is implicit. Like say, a patch of iron ore that you've deliberately hovered your pointer over on a map screen.

>gigairon
Hmmm

>Hey can I buy ur addy pick
>sure 150M
>Who the fuck writes Mega? What is this, megacoins? You want 150 Megacoins? What the fuck is wrong with you? Type it out as 150000000 like a normal person. 150000000 coins.

Only quadinserters can catch gigairon :^)

Million is a number in and of itself

Yet megabytes and gigabytes are a thing

M is not million. It is Mega. Like K is Kilo and G is Giga. I could have used '1000k' as an example instead I guess but the point is you use it to shorten numbers in informal uses.

>Iron ore 1.0x10^9
Physicians please go and stay go

Capital M stands for mega you absolute baka

In informal use, "ten G's" means "ten thousand" (i.e. 10 Grand).

Only if you're in urban America and you're selling drugs, pimping crackwhores or writing rap songs about selling drugs or pimping crackwhores. No one else does that. Not even the drug dealers.

people also say things like "how many potato's you want?", "just give me 2 kilo's" or "the file's only a couple megs' big". Neither of these scenarios give you a unit, but it's obvious by the context.

I bought it because I saw someone else here playing it, so there are at least two of us.

Has anyone played Project 5: Sightseer? Fun or scam?

>Project 5: Sightseer
there isn't even a torrent up, so it's probably not even worth pirating

>buy a probably /egg/ approved car.
>the previous owner put a vid of the car on yt with 300k views
Eh that's pretty cool I guess.

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Tedious

What car is it user?

pretty enh right now. Could be cool someday, but it's basically 10% finished unity game #5849

Ded

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What happened to the last ded?

It ded

Femtobrain detected!
Fucking physician.

Piston is 40g, so you get a normal arm and 4 tiles of rail for the cost of a piston arm.

I rarely use pistons outside of the production (space-constrained) puzzles.

>40 giga
that's a whole lot of piston

Geralt has some fucking huge shoulders, has he been working out?

giga
It's 40 grams, you physician

What's a good number of construction bots?
Or is that a stupid question and no amount is to much?

100

Never build more than 100.

In the time it took you to answer I built 400

1k for a start, over 10k by the time you have a rocket

Well, shit

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He said construction robots, not logistics robots.

works for both

don't ded

How there is no Stationeers in this thread?

What ams mall? I've never heard it before today and google isn't terribly helpful - is it just one of each item being produced?

Do those shotguns actually fling people around?

What's going on here? Not enough charging ports?

dirty brown brs need to go and stay go of /egg/

Not really. But they seem to have more impulse than the other shotguns.

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Big area that's just focused on producing the items you use most

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The "mall" refers to an area that produces items to build the factory itself (belts, inserters, assemblers, etc) rather than science packs or rockets.

Help I am not of speak of kurva

>They then start speaking broken english back
>We converse in broken english as we do shitty raids that complete my hard season rewards anyway

Aaah, the sweet smell of innocence when you have little reason to reroll rares

Exactly.

Each port can only recharge 2 bots at a time. If you use logistic bots for "bulk" items, you have to mass-produce ports. If you only use them for low-volume items, or only use construction bots, you can (mostly) get away with just having enough ports to cover the network. But then any large-scale deconstruction results in a huge swarm of construction bots all wanting to recharge and nowhere near enough ports.

I think i fucked something up

Cuckout races open in a few minutes. Get ready.

What the fuck? That moons made me erect.

youtube.com/watch?v=Snm_5v0p4hc

Is it because it looks like a big titty?

>checking out Fallout VR videos
>this comes up in the recommended videos
youtube.com/watch?v=KtT8pcT9gF0
Contraptions is a hell of a drug.

>cancer hurricane player
>manage to snipe him while he's flying up
>he comes crashing down

kek

So it IS still possible.

No! Poor Bertox.

1: car jack
2: cannon
3: radar
4: cooler
5: flag (blue)
6: radio
7: radio
8: wheel
9: wheel
10: docker
11: cab
12: wheel
13: flag (blue)
14: car jack
15: cooler
16: docker
17: barrel
18: cannon
19: 20 coins

wew...

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Considering harpoons are now a thing and long-range weaponry always has been, how interesting would flying be in the current game?
With the power limitations, you'd probably only get one or two good weapons on a plane/chopper/hovercraft abomination, and they probably wouldn't be too fast.

Here's the shit I've fusioned from miner crates.

>Actually videoing that shit

>Actually videoing that shit
dude, recording is always on anyways

youtu.be/I2Ad-1JzNq8
>fallout 4 has more engineering than crossout
What a time to be alive

It's really not very hard to make basic computers if you have enough things that react to each other reliably, and patience.
Where's that PowerPoint Turing completedness video someone posted recently?

lol