Every vanilla playthrough of mine follows a rough progression: get to blue science with spaghetti, organize a bit, and then get bots all with my initial ore deposits (maybe a few trains to the closest other ones if needed). After that, I build a larger, more organized base with a comprehensive train network from scratch in another location and then work to finish the game.
I assumed this was the norm—or close to it—but I’ve seen people just progressively expand their initial base at spawn until they beat the game. I feel like I could do it differently just because I have less experience and hence less foresight into what I’ll need as I go, but I’m not sure.
What do you guys do? How come?
You can get an absolute minimum of 5k spm kinda quick after Aquilo, even without legendary science packs. Agriculture science is probably the biggest hurdle and you also need biolabs. (This is excluding promethium science and you probably want legendary biolabs too.)
The madlads are pushing +1 million spm these days, btw. Total insanity.
That’s amazing. I’ll have to look up some current builds.
I managed to finish vanilla pre space age.
After space age was released, I started over again, left Nauvis for Vulcanus and then Fulgora, but lost momentum on Gleba and wound up getting distracted by something else.
I’m sure I’ll get back to it eventually (it’s a great game, but I go through phases).