2 Space Age savefiles (including nauvis starter base jumpstart base (with no space age content touched yet) & general update!
Added 2024-11-01 16:09:00 +0000 UTCHello everyone!
How are y'all enjoying the Space Age expansion :)
As most of you know I'm currently streaming my very first playthrough of space Age every european evening, slowly exploring the game as a real new player experience. I gotta say that it was a great decision to do it this way, it's a lot of fun figuring everything out right as we come across things, instead of having a plan beforehand like is often the case for my challenge video series.
I originally was not planning to turn the NPE into an edited video, but as we progressed, we introduced a bunch of mini-challenges (like a turretless nauvis "defense", or cold start on every planet), and there were a few funny situations which would never happen on the 2nd+ playthrough, so I changed my mind. I have started writing and recording a script already, I would like to keep it consice-ish and turn it into a single video, but we'll see haha. I succeeded to keep the nauvis part short, but as we went into new territory the script starts covering "less gametime per word" and going more into detail.
Anyway, I've also been editing a bit more of the "kill biters for resources" playthrough which is perfect for when I can only mister a low-brain-effort intensity. With the daily streams ongoing until my first space age playthrough is finished though, it will be a while before a new edited video (series) will start. In the mean time, I want to finish up some of the other projects which have been put aside, like the kill biters for resources one, and a shortened ending to science galore (I'll release that not as new episodes, but as a supercut with all previous episodes attached before the final summary). I'll probably end up definitively abandoning the indestructible biter bases series, looks like the biters have won there as I just can't come up with a good direction/ending to proceed further.
So, because of the gap in videos, I thought I'd share a few savegames here. These have (just) been posted in the discord as well, but as not everyone is on there, below are the links with the appropriate description/discord post attached:
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Planning to play Factorio SPACE AGE but don't have time/mood to spend 10-20 hours building the good old Nauvis base first? WELL DO I HAVE THE SAVEGAME FOR YOU! The save below has got a great starter base with plenty of ores and oil hooked up, everything is researched up until blue science, yellow and purple science is prepared and can be flicked on by placing a single belt, and the very first rocket is built but not launched... to summarize, NONE of the Space Age content has been touched yet but you can pick up right from beyond a post-vanilla base.
The whole Quality mechanics are still OPTIONAL, beware that if you choose to research Quality Module, a quality question will show up everywhere, from setting recipes in assemblers to setting hotbar hotkeys.
This base is based on my Self Balancing Starter Base which was also feautured as the starter base for my 10k SPM base/streams, and I did not need to make real changes except for that RCUs and sattellites have been removed from the game, and the RCUs as a rocket ingredient simply has been replaced with blue chips. That is to say: you don't neccesarily need to start a new game, it is very possible to take your own factorio 1.1 savegame and play on with it in factorio space age, it won't cost you too much time to update the few places that need updating.
If you use this base for your playthrough, let me know how it went and feedback is always welcome!
Enjoy Space Age!
Michael
PS I originally wanted to share the savefile from my actual livestream, but man I just can't leave you with such a crappy base, so instead I started a new game on the same map/same default settings, trying to keep as close to my playthrough as possible while building an actual decent base. That means, we still have Twin Johnnies, a pollution cloud well free of biters, NO active base defense (but 200 laser turrets await you in a chest, also the robo-arm turret biter expansion exterminator blueprint book sits in your player's inventory, you will need to switch on yellow science and research logistics system to use it), and we've even got The Tree making it's return RIGHT by the rocket silo! Nice!
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Wanna try to remotely revive my dead nauvis base? (My nauvis base has been unpowered for dozens of hours as I forgot to hook up a new coal patch before leaving. Meanwhile Biters have expanded relentlessly all over the map, but as it turns out, you can now rotate belts from the map view. I have lead the coal belt back in the direction of the boilers, and I had made a blueprint book with a roboport-extendable laser-arm to take out biter bases. Both logistics and construction bots are available, as well as requester-chest-fed assemblers and having all intermediates in provider chests. The challenge here is to try and revive nauvis remotely, WITHOUT the player being present! I failed my first 2 attempts on stream, but I think it is possible to achieve, if a bit challenging... Good luck!
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Wanna take a look at my completed base on Fulgora (which ALSO makes all 7 Nauvisian science packs (because nauvis base ded remember) AND my completed base on vulcanus (with specimens of all 3 sizes of enemy left to fight) Here is the end-of-stream, post-fulgora/vulcanus but pre-gleba-journey savegame from my last stream (31 okt) --> [click the link above, it's the same savefile ;) ]
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Enjoy!
Michael
PS if there is demand, I could make a recap of my NPE per planet in the style of Live Mike's Warptorio Base Tour at the end of the warptorio finale (these would be posted here exclusively, not released). Those would contain spoilers for the eventual edited video obviously though, so let me know if there is interest for this)
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PS2 In tonights stream we will be dropped off on Gleba... with Nothing! (starting in 2 hours from now)
Michael Hendriks
2024-11-01 16:10:22 +0000 UTC
