Never trust a system that seems to be working
While I have not really played SE (past initial launch, it was too daunting to build the ship in space, etc) I have run into these kind of &quot;issues&quot; in Factorio. While they can have disastrous effects, I often really enjoy finding the core problem and finding a solution to make it &quot;fail-safe&quot;.<p>Sometimes I wish I could go back and wipe all my Factorio knowledge and start from scratch again, most importantly refusing to use blueprints from the internet except for basic things like balancers. Finding early&#x2F;mid&#x2F;late game malls&#x2F;blueprints sort of ruined the game for me. Min&#x2F;maxing is fine by myself but once I&#x27;m &quot;competing&quot; against the internet or feel obligated to find the most efficient&#x2F;best green&#x2F;red&#x2F;blue circuit factory, or science packs, etc it really ruins the game for me and makes it feel more like a job.<p>I got a good thousand or two hours out of the game before I hit that point and someday I want to try playing it again with self-enforced limits on what I&#x27;m &quot;allowed&quot; to get from the internet and what I need to just figure out on my own. The first game I played was pure bliss (and I played with Bob&#x27;s mods and a number of others, yes that was stupid for my first playthrough but damn it was fun), I&#x27;d love to recapture that.