A bit of a slow week, but also the culmination of effort began several months ago.
It’s a good opportunity to take it easy for a little while.
Early in the week I spun up the last of the “Tier 8 Products” machinery and completed all three remaining milestones at my current progress level. After weeks and weeks of being, if not hyperfocused exactly, at least fully engaged with this massive chain of projects (to the exclusion of nearly all other leisure activities) it’s nice to be done with it.
At least until it’s time to start on whatever I’m doing next. But I think that’s going to keep for a bit. I need to loop back around to Goal 1 for this save: “Build complete, walkable, cleanly structured facilities.” And that means (in part) going around and putting walls and roofs and whatnot on all my functional-but-unfinished factories. I’m tired of letting the partly-complete eyesores add up in my game map.
Mind you, I was (as previously noted) extremely dialed-in on making certain production goals, and that took a while. But that’s done. I’m in no hurry to start the next really big thing. (Probably another power plant, just a question of “Rocket Fuel Plan A” or “Nuclear Power.” A question I won’t even answer right now. I won’t even ponder it.)
This morning I decided to begin my beautification efforts at home, so to speak: The Hub site’s recycling complex needed walling in and roofing placed.
It’s worth noting that I still… strongly dislike the default wall design. It’s too busy and looks weird, especially when you start adding in triangular filler pieces to deal with angled roofing. But at least it takes paint coloring, which the concrete and steel walls don’t. And there are no other options. Sigh.
(A possible solution is simply to use the 1-meter wall pieces. And yes, that does look better… but I don’t want to place four times the objects for only a modest improvement to the aesthetics.)
Anyway: One building down, several more to go. When I feel like it. When not puttering around in the other games I’ve been ignoring all year so far…