Found a sulfur deposit. Made my first electronic circuit. Next step is a machine requiring an LV hull... which is eight steel plates, or sixteen steel ingots.
Yea, I'm done. Sorry, Pyure. Yes, I know that it gets easier later on as you get various machines. Yes, I know that once I get LV power going I can try to run an electric blast furnace which beats the hell out of my bronze one. I also don't much care at this point. Maybe it is just my play style, I don't like building up just to do a couple of important steps to render all that buildup obsolete. Even 'recycling' only returns a fraction of your stuff back, and I'm not a huge fan of building up infrastructure for just one or two steps.
I'm not a fan of the 'resource production choke point' you have put in now several times that I've run into. To me, this is either 'spend your way to a solution, KNOWING that it will be obsolete as soon as you are done with these two steps', or 'spend the next decade waiting for your resources to get done', both are bad choices. This isn't difficult, it is tedium at its worst, and one of the key problems with Continuum. At this point, these resource chokepoints are almost exactly like EFab's half hour timer on various chokes in Continuum. Not only that... and here's my real problem... I can't really do much away from my base while it happens, because if I go too far away, the whole thing just up and stops working. So I can't go to the nether and mine up some more redstone and sulfur, I can't just go explore, I don't have everything I need for the automated alchemy thing for that method of steel production... this is just grinding my experience down to a halt, and it isn't particularly fun for me.
Here lies Shneekey, Lvl 12 Machinist, who died in the Steam Age, killed by Steel Production chokepoint. Try again? Y/N ___
Yea, I'm done. Sorry, Pyure. Yes, I know that it gets easier later on as you get various machines. Yes, I know that once I get LV power going I can try to run an electric blast furnace which beats the hell out of my bronze one. I also don't much care at this point. Maybe it is just my play style, I don't like building up just to do a couple of important steps to render all that buildup obsolete. Even 'recycling' only returns a fraction of your stuff back, and I'm not a huge fan of building up infrastructure for just one or two steps.
I'm not a fan of the 'resource production choke point' you have put in now several times that I've run into. To me, this is either 'spend your way to a solution, KNOWING that it will be obsolete as soon as you are done with these two steps', or 'spend the next decade waiting for your resources to get done', both are bad choices. This isn't difficult, it is tedium at its worst, and one of the key problems with Continuum. At this point, these resource chokepoints are almost exactly like EFab's half hour timer on various chokes in Continuum. Not only that... and here's my real problem... I can't really do much away from my base while it happens, because if I go too far away, the whole thing just up and stops working. So I can't go to the nether and mine up some more redstone and sulfur, I can't just go explore, I don't have everything I need for the automated alchemy thing for that method of steel production... this is just grinding my experience down to a halt, and it isn't particularly fun for me.
Here lies Shneekey, Lvl 12 Machinist, who died in the Steam Age, killed by Steel Production chokepoint. Try again? Y/N ___