Good to know general knowledge. The game is clearly still running in the back ground when I swap workspaces, so no real chance for the it get confused.
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I can just wait. I tried it out on Steam Deck using a community profile (1.0), and gave up pretty quickly. The game is just too complex to hack controller support on top of it, so I am hopeful for the official support. I'd only even consider it when traveling, and otherwise I'd just use a PC.
Thanks for the insights. Normally I'm 100% good with releasing it when it's ready as well as not giving a date ahead of time. But I'm about the head out of the country for a week or so, and needed to know whether to bring my Steam Deck =). It sounds like it still has a ways to go, and I'll be back before it's release.
You comment led me down another rabbit hole: I don't have that setting in my control panel, and apparently am missing several whole sections. An extra detail: I'm using a laptop with both integrated and discrete graphics. I tried launching a game and seeing if more settings would show up, but that didn't seem to work. Apparently they are only consistent with an attached monitor.
This has been working so far! Thanks for the suggestion. (I've had the same problem in more than 1 game).
I’ll give it a try. I’ve seen as a solution to multiple problems, so probably a good tool to learn.
Thanks. I think this it best general answer (don't solve my specific problem, but for sure answers how to best get help.)
I've tried every key combo I could think of, and it didn't seem to help. However I started using super-D to swap workspaces instead, and I have not hit the problem so far.
From my many decades of windows gaming, I always run in borderless window mode if I think I need/want to tab out.
I'm running on a laptop, but it's fairly high end: 13th gen i9, 4070, 64GB of RAM, and only a SSD.
I'll give it a try. I've seen as a solution to multiple problems, so probably a good tool to learn.
I was trying to come up with a compact design mini factories that I could blue print and wanted to see how many manufacturers I could squeeze into a mk3. Along the way, the solutuon I came up with ended up being load balanced. Now that I post-end game, and some of the final products can be really slow, I certainly appreciate being able to not have wait for a manifold to fill.
I started the design with what I am calling a "center feed" pair of manufacturers. Instead of resources coming from the left or right in a manifold, they are fed in between the 2.
I had a similar design before for a 3 input version, but didn't have to solve what to do when splitters on the head of the lifts are too close together. This time around, I just pulled further back and removed the splitters on the lifts.
Next was simply mirroring 2 more manufacturers and feeding the inputs in again from the middle (above the outputs). Now I had a balanced design for 4x. It could also trivially be extended to 6x, although it wouldn't fit in a blueprint.
The final step was to link 3 floors together. The inputs are routed via lifts up the middle floor, and there are split 3 ways. One output goes directly out the back the feed the machines on that floor. The right output goes to the top floor via lifts (easiest to see here), and the left goes the bottom floor also via lifts. The key to getting this to work is to stagger the lifts, and to not care that I we re-ordering which input was "on top" etc. Staggering the lifts usually needed me to build a splitter, nudge it in location, build the lift, delete the splitter, and then connect the lift via belt.
All of the outputs for the top two floors are routed back away from the inputs lifts, and then down to be merged with the ground floor mergers. They were pretty easy to route since there was a lot of room beneath the input splitters.
You can fit 4x generators in a mk2, which is what I am using as my base for the stacking generators. While a mk3 will let you squeeze something like 9 in a single blueprint, but you are really playing tetris at that point and it doesn't look natural. It's also only a little shorter than my 4x plus a 4x on top. Overall, I like the 4x in a mk2, as it scales more naturally.
I highly recommend building them via blueprint if you aren't already. The main benefit being that you can overclock them in the blueprint itself, and it will be built overclocked and with the power shards already in place.
Fuel, Turbofuel, or Rocket Fuel?
I setup in the blue crater, and completely missed the mark on space. I am up to Rocket Fuel, but only using ~1200 crude at the moment. I have started to double stack my generators, and made a nice blueprint for it. Unfortunately, I added too many Power Storage units in the blueprint, and I run our of wire to quickly when trying to mass build them =/. The design is setup to stack as tall as you want, and doesn't look completely terrible with the exhaust in the middle.
I have a compact blueprint with 4 refineries (OC'd to 125%) + 4 blenders for the Heavy Oil Residue + Diluted Fuel step. (I also can reuse this one for my plastic/rubber setup). And another blueprint with 4 blenders stacked making Nitro Rocket Fuel. After packing these so densely, I've been able to cut the footprint of producing the fuel in half.
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I gave it another look after you comment. I cannot find the advanced button. There really are not many user interactive options in my menu, except in the profile space =/. I've seen other report the menus missing as well.
Either it hiding in plain sight, and I am derp'ing hard, it's so buried I can't find it, or it's completely missing on my end.