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Well that's a new one! :D

Initially this is definitely correct, but once you get a few upgrades for your spinners this mostly becomes a non-issue. That said, nothing wrong with some PLS's!

Thanks for the feedback! The sound is a bit weird in this game to get right as it scales up MASSIVELY if you get closer to machines, so will look into it some more!

I know right?!?! I was soooo happy once I got this done :D

They are still VERY good though. Taking trade logistics for your first zone is still a decision that I don't think you will ever regret, as it makes sense for that zone to be a central production hub, in/exporting other items as needed.

I didn't know that actually! I like the looks of the pipes in this game though, so it's no biggy!

Yeaaaaah it's just like in RPG's where every rare is now blue, epics are purple, and legendaries are orange/gold. I guess they went with what people are used to ;)

It is mostly random, although people have been reporting more frequent landings early on now. Keep an eye on it - if you are fast enough, you can take the base out with Icarus before it becomes a problem.

You're welcome!

6 bases sounds like a lot :O Are you running any addons that might be interfering with this? I've never had that many bases land early on (but it's not uncommon for a 4th base to drop fairly eary - just make sure to watch for it and take it out asap)

Overthinking is what I do here! But yes, it turns out that the height of this particular building is a nice guideline!

That's what the blueprints are for ;)

Wow! Well that's good to know, this is stuff I think most people (myself included in later playthroughs) take for granted - which it obviously isn't!

You can opt in (or out) of the beta in the same way - see the pinned comment that leads to the instructions for this particular one.

@@TheDutchActuary thx man. Figured it out. Had to uninstall from Xbox game pass , and re download on steam

You need a blacksmith in one of your plots, along with the required materials. In order to make weapns, you'll need iron. In order to make shields, simple planks will do. Keep in mind you need a combination of shields and weapons to arm your militia (it will show what type of arms/shields depending on the type of militia). The people will fetch their weapons from storage themselves assuming they are available. (V -> recruit militia)

@@TheDutchActuary ok so the blacksmith will randomly make all weapons Z I had a blacksmith last go round , but he only made swords nothing else . Had like 200 or something with zero axe or poll swords . Also had a rich iron deposit too.

Good job! Those first few heavily defended planets are not easy!

It's all circles :D

You'll be using that oil for yellow science soon. Things like plastic/organic crystal will allow you syphon off that oils pretty quickly. Also don't forget the oil storage stacks vertically, and each keeps 10K of it. Should take a while for that to fill up!

Hahaha it was too obvious I guess :D

Right there with you! I personally played it more like a Diablo-type of game then a multiplayer thing, and had quite a bit of fun with it.

In the bottom right you have some options to toggle warnings/ore veins etc on or off. It's actually useful to have them on while playing so you know you have a power issue - but I've turned them off to prevent unnecessary flashing ;)

@@TheDutchActuary found it! Thanks!!

Indy developer, steam game! :)

@@TheDutchActuary thanks!

Yikes, that is unfortunate! If you have absolutely no logs left anywhere, you could order some from your trader? If you don't have one yet and you're still very early game (which I assume if you have no logs *anywhere* else) you might just have gotten extremely unlucky - starting over might then be the only way to go.

@@TheDutchActuary appreciate ya getting back. Most don’t haha. Loving the game this far . Addicted tbh. I’m figuring things out by watching your videos . Got my populous to 110 now , but start in to dio in approval rating after placing taxes 😂. I’m thinking I need to set up another meat tent or supply shed . Now with the larger pop, I’m having a hard time keeping up on food, and keep getting promoted that my workers have nothing to do and generic storage full. It shows plenty of room so trying to currently figure that one out . Thx man 😂

@@bulletpretzels1198 10-15% taxes should be fine as long as you meet all the requirements. Don't go too far above that, because as it turns out, people don't like high taxes (who knew?!) Did you assign workers to your storage as well? The workers in the production places tend to be a bit lax in terms of exporting their items.

@@TheDutchActuary yes I have . Since last message . I had to restart. A band of raiders wiped me out , my measly 5 retinue and 30 archers with 20 spearmen were no competition for there 90 soldiers or so . Starting slow this time with another plot, and trying to get my garrison up faster this time . What’s your approach to lands infertile , but have a rich Iron. I feel that could save me from raiders. But any specific tips to help get my army larger secondary to quicker population growth ?

@@bulletpretzels1198 Bit late (sorry): Remember you can raid the raider hideouts as well - those give you a nice amount of wealth, which you can use to upgrade your retinue. You won't be able to take on the AI enemy until you have an upgraded army. Helmets and other protection goes a LONG way to making a small army do heavy lifting. Also, once you have some wealth, remember you can increase the size of your retinue AND upgrade those units in the customisation tab.

This comment got serious proliferation buff as well, way more than 25% extra content! :D

​@@TheDutchActuary "25% extra content!" Now I'm not saving resources (time) now I'm going to go for 100% production 😄 I write comments bigger than this every 3 days on youtube, for like 15yrs so it is nothing to write this. Don't feel like I spent a lot of time writing this and I'm doing too much, it's normal for me. I've done 30hrs in creative since that message and I think I have the info, I just need to write so my brain can put it all together, it's a thing I do. I don't believe 1 is better than the other but that they both have a certain purpose and there is not a clear indication of when you should use 25% or 100%. I can't tell where that line is exactly so I've been trying to find it and this is the best I have so far. If you have revisited this issue in a new video plz let me know because this is 2 years old and you may already know the things i'm just figuring out. I still stand by the, "if it's a rare resource, you need to use 25% for every step of the process". if you need more of the item faster than your 25% setup can do then do alt recipe also, all rare veins should be 25% all the way, all day. You proved that if you want to make turbines @5/s that 25% is better and I have no arguments with that because your biggest claim for using 25% is you need less and less factories needing less power over all. In my mind, when your always fighting for more power, 25% would just simply be the answer because you get the most out of everything and use less power doing it, like a "duh" situation. Lets say you want to make gears at 20/s: --25% would be 16F(factories) to make 20/s. those 16F need 12.8/s ingots, so you need 10.24 iron ingot smelters to be able to make 12.8/s ingots. To make 12.8/s ingot the 10.24 smelter will need 8.192 Iron Ore per sec ------To make 20/s you need 26 factories with the 25% --100% would need 10 factories to make 20/s. those 10F will need 20/s iron ingot so you need 10 Iron ingot smelters to make 20/s iron ingot. To make 20/s you need 20 factories with 100% when you are making turbines it's better to do 25% for power AND use less resources when you make gears it's better to do 100% for power BUT use same resources. so the difference between these 2 things (except for resources used) is how many steps that use assemblers. When making gears the process stops at the first use of assemblers versus making turbines there are 4 steps that use assemblers and why everything benefits so much from 25% So then I think, does that mean the line for 25% vs. 100% is when the process goes from smelter to assemblers. I haven't made this the answer but I'm leaning towards it. I think making a turbine setup like you did and putting the smelting in the same setup can be counter productive depending on the situation "low on power", "low on resource veins" or "low on buildable space" those are the 3 things ratio'ed together are going to make you decide between 25% or 100% If you are making: turbines that need 30/s iron ingot total, in separate build you need 15/s iron ingot for motors, separate build you need 10/s iron ingot for circuit boards, and 5/s because you are making belts, that is a total of 60/s iron ingot needed if all assemblers are working. -60/s iron ingot at 25% needs 48 smelters and uses 38.4 iron ore per sec -60/s iron ingot at 100% needs 30 smelters and use 60 iron ore per sec this is why I write, I didn't even put this together till now. Because of this, that means the power you are saving by needing less assemblers is causing you to need more smelters per setup than you would if you did a setup with just iron ingot smelters at 100%, which would save even more power. The setup being from ore to item causes you to use more smelters, you just can't see it because they are spread out between the setups for each item. You don't save resources (ore) by using 100% on the smelters but it's iron ingot, that only needs iron ore and is the most abundant resources in system. Are you making green or pink containers that require unipolar, POWER IS NOT THE PROBLEM, everything smelted and assembled should be at 25% extra. This means you could have made 2000 items total but because you used 25% every step you can end up making like 12,000, it has crazy exponential. Are you making turbines that require multiple resources that are made by assemblers, that require items smelted from the most common resources but don't have the power, then you should 100% for your smelters and 25% your assemblers together or in separate builds. It gets tricky though, because if I need the 60/s iron ingot but i want to make gears also, I would make a separate setup for the gears that is ore to item because the item I want ends at the first use of assemblers. I could just make my 100% iron ingot setup bigger and then make a gear setup without smelters and it would save power. Instead I would rather the setups that use a lot of assemblers per setup, use the ingots from my 100%. Even though you are not getting everything you can from the ores out of the ground with 100% on smelters, if every step after the smelters is 25% then at least you make the most from the smelted items. The other use for 100% is fine-tuning your 25% assembler setup. The numbers are arbitrary, im going off memory but the point is there. With whole numbers being multiplied by .5 in the 100% setups all answers will be whole numbers (easier math) With 25% you will get where you need 12.8 motor assemblers requiring 10.24/s ingot, 5.12/s coils, and 5.12/s gears (annoying math) which means you need 13 assemblers at 25% to get what you want, BUT what if you remove the 13th assembler and because you need .8 more, make assembler 12 and 11 100%, this allows you to have even less assemblers than what the 25% requires needing even less power, but you do have to chase the problem you created. 9F @25% and 2F @100% means you will not need as much power because you removed F13 but you do need more resources as a result. with the 11th and 12th assemblers at 100% the whole setup needs 11.08/s ingots, 5.90/s coils and 5.90/s gears. Your gears and coil factories can handle the increase in demand but the iron ingots now require another smelter to get the 11.08/s OR you can only change 1 smelter to 100% and keep the same amount of smelters, you just use a little bit more resources so you don't have to add a smelter needing more power. yea, ok that was fun, thanks for reading and if you can see any issues with what I said plz tell me.

Mixing 25% with 100% actually makes the math easier -To make 50/s turbines you need 80F for turbines. -80F require 128 motors and to get that you need 204.8F for motors. -204.8 assemblers needed for motors .8 > .5 so I uses 2 assemblers from the 204 to make 100%. 202F @ 25% 2F @ 100% From what I can tell you should never make more than 2 assemblers in any setup 100%. By the time you are making a 3rd assembler 100% then your math was wrong from the start.

Said that last part wrong, you should never make more than 2 assemblers ""per step in the setup"" 100%. Turbines have 4 steps that use assemblers so you should never go over 8 factories @ 100% in the whole setup. 204.(a) factories--- If (a) < .5 then you should only use 1 assembler at 100% when doing the math on paper. (a) < .5 use 1 assembler @ 100% (a) > .5 use 2 assemblers @ 100% You can really fine-tune like this easy once you have the whole setup complete and you watch the belts and make adjustments.

@@shawnbybee85 You can mix & match to make the math easier, but honestly if you're doing proliferated builds using extra products I would recommend using a calculator (or DIY spreadsheet ofc!) and just make the calculation a non-issue. Using speed options just means you're leaving some (exponential) resource savings and power savings on the table. This is of course purely from an optimizing perspective - There's nothing wrong with using whatever option for proliferation you prefer (including not using proliferation at all!)

You can enable the overlay when building anything (similar to the fertility) - alternatively it should show up automatically when building a well.