Previously when playing by myself I never got past the point where I just unlocked basic oil production.
Playing the new update with one of my friends currently, he builds stuff in the most haphazard, slapdash way possible and I have no idea how he can stand it. He's the kind of person that pretty much can't play vanilla Factorio without logistics bots handling everything, yet when he plays something like Seablock he has pretty much no trouble building
somewhat organized machines that I couldn't even begin to comprehend. So what he does in Satisfactory is he builds a single constructor/assembler/manufacture that makes an item he wants, hooks its inputs up to the output box of a factory I probably built, and then he overclocks the one machine to maximum without any care for belt speed or input items per second. It's at the point where we've blown through almost all the tiers and I never got around to properly setting up a factory that automates rotors because I'm struggling to keep up with all the research we've unlocked and the parts that need to be automated. I did end up automating steel products and stators so he slapped down a single assembler that makes rotors and belted over the stators. A single assembler in the middle of a field of spaghetti belts is how we're getting motors (and a majority of our items) right now.
Right now he's going around exploring the map for hard drives, but we've advanced to the point where almost every recipe in the game can show up so the odds of finding a good recipe that we need is incredibly low. Since we have dimensional depots and I'm typically near the base I'm basically the guy that goes and shoves stuff into the depot when he needs it. I have not looked up how much it costs to make one of those things but if it's not too bad then I should go to all my old setups and just put one of those down by the output box and just have everything 'in the cloud'.
I'm not angry at him or anything, I just want to play the game at my own pace, while he wants to rush straight to the end. I do have a singleplayer game started in the northwest area I've never been to, but I've been spending most of my time playing with my friend.
Pictured: My feeble attempts to make a somewhat organized starter base quickly overpowered by the Italian Chef.