Last week I did a music thread.
This time I thought it was time for a gaming thread. What's everyone playing?
I've been playing Dungeon Deathball, a fun little indie roguelike sports/puzzle/tactics game. That in turn makes me want to get back into Blood Bowl 2. Also played a little bit of Slay the Spire, recently.
Basically automate everything.. you should be past the early game after about 30 minutes and have construction robots around the 1.5hr - 2hr mark. I like the early game because for me it's more of a speed run, how fast can I get to construction bots and I create blueprints to optimise for this. Making blueprints that are simple and quick to hand build makes a ton of difference early game. Once I unlock both I move to my more complex and efficient blueprints. Though a lot of this I need to optimise now for Space Age.
Best tips I can give for early game is automate your assemblers, inverters, belts (plan this for red belts as you want to move to them asap) and then miners to start. That way you can just focus on building and expanding and exploring. I don't bother much with defence until I unlock bots but that is only because I rush to get to them before the natives get angry.
Hope this helps in any way