There’s a specific cadence to playing through a new Satisfactory save. You build some power infrastructure to meet the current shipment phase’s needs, you unlock milestones to allow you to build the factories to make the materials to meet the current shipment phase’s needs, and eventually you run out of anything else to do but… get the phase shipment sent up to the orbital platform. I’ve arrived at that third step in the waltz once again: It’s time to send up the third space elevator shipment.

Of course, having done this a few times now, I couldn’t let myself just piecemeal the process as I’ve done in (most) previous saves. (“New Clear Plan” is an outlier adn should not be counted.) Not this time around. Go big or go home, right? And FICSIT Inc. isn’t sending a shuttle to let me go back home any time soon, which narrows my options somewhat.

This may be a while.

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