My friend and I were playing for sort of our first time at 1.0. (We played a bit a few months ago, but stopped around computers when we heard 1.0 would be soon.)
We were having fun, but as we got later in the game, it felt like things got really overwhelming and slowed down a lot. Especially once we got to T7/8. We ended up spending like a week just to mostly get nuclear power running. (We still aren’t handling the waste completely.) We tried using blueprints a bit, but they were kind of clunky and it felt like there was only so much we could do with them.
At this point we’re on pause with the game. Does anyone have any suggestions for making things go smoother late game or is this just how the game is after a certain point? It feels bad stopping so close to the end, but the way things were going it felt like we might have ended up spending more time on the last few tiers than everything before that.
I often just don’t do anything with my factory; instead, I go exploring and murdering and I then grind my murder victims into mush For Science™. Sometimes I work on my factory too though, but I’ve been recently reticent to untangle an unproductive early bit of my factory which takes some thinking juice which I don’t have a lot of these days because I’m also in school.
So, try exploring and murdering; not just building.
Finding all of the power slugs on the map and putting them on a looping belt to simultate a race is always fun.