Starter base, went Northern Forest since it was the only starter I hadn't played. Finally just destroyed my bio burners, had 32x to finish out phase 1.
Expanded to the rocky desert, initially planned to build a mega-base here, but wound up just assembling the ship parts. I always build bus mega bases, figured I should do something different. Decided to lean heavily into tractors and trucks for transportation.
Different angle of the same area, first real coal setup. Big concrete paths around the river are for tractors.
"Everything" factory in the dune desert, bit of everything is made here until I can get big satellite factories setup. Big coal plant #2 in the background. Finally had to give in and start building rail before phase 4, I'm going to need to transport things really far soon.
Phase 2 needed a lot of beams, so first big satellite factory got set up, making 405 beams/minute. Finished out phase 2 making around 180 versatile frameworks per minute with lots of sloops and a few smaller beam factories elsewhere.
I greatly over-estimated (didn't remember/research at all) my short term need for modular frames, so I built a modular frame factory (left), soon after a heavy modular frame wing got added (right). Big coal plant #3 in the background.
Despite building out three large compacted coal plants, it just wasn't keeping up, so it was time for some turbo fuel power. 32x power generators max overclocked should hopefully hold out till rocket fuel or nuclear.
The swamp didn't have a lot of usable nodes left, so I covered it with a recycled rubber/plastic setup, and it's now the first pick up on the new train.
Getting there, slowly but surely!
