The Game “Factory idle” My play record in a long term

 I started to play “Factory idle” in last June or in early July 2021.

This is my play record of it.

Link: Factory idle

◆Attention◆

✔︎I’m not good at playing these kinds of games very much.

✔︎I often leave this game for months… 

✔︎Sorry for my poor English

 (I’m a Japanese, and Japanese version of this page: https://hana00000.blogspot.com/2021/08/factory-idle.html)

◆Shortly after starting the play

Income is more than $1.4/tick (Research centers 🟦 are available)

◆1 month later (from the start)（purchased : Engine & Kilofactory ＆ Research center 3）

July 26th, 2021

Actually, you can proceed with this game smoothly for the first month.

In this picture, Iron, Steel, Plastic, Electronics, Gun, and Engine are produced.

I used research points and get all products except iron.

I sell Engines mainly and sell Guns in the open space.

The layout is not efficient, I know.

I have no image, but I bought “Kilofactory” and use it exclusively for research.

Total income is $1-2 million/tick.(I have no images…)

◆2 months later（purchased : Megafactory & Tank & Diesel refinery）

August 29th, 2021

▲Megafactory

I sell Tanks and do research. (Research center 3 🟧)

The layout of Research centers is provisional, but that of tanks are not bad, I think.

Upgrades are like this↓

Saving money, I buy upgrades little by little.

In the middle of upgrades, balance of each production volume is not good.

For example, look at the Engines.

Producing Engines requires aluminum, steel and electronics, but steels are not enough because of lack of upgrades.

In the image above, efficiency of Engine maker is 75% because of steels. 

I want to produce 8 Engines and use 4 for producing Tanks, but only 6 are produced actually.

So, I put three conveyors after Engine maker, and connected one conveyor to Engine seller and two conveyors to Tank assembly.

(To sell: 2, to use for producing tanks: 4)

“Factory” ↓

The layout is not beautiful, but balances of upgrades are good. (I haven’t upgraded them very much.)

Upgrades for “Factory” ↓

The last is an image of “Kilofactory”. This layout is unchanged for a long time.

Just researching.

I don’t know how to use the bottom right space.

Income▼

I earn a lot in only “Megafactory” because I introduced Diesel refinery.

◆3 months later (purchased: Gigafactory)

October 2nd, 2021

This is “Gigafactory”.

(Gradually the shape is getting easy to use as you buy more expensive factory …)

The current main force “Megafactory”▼

The layout of Components related to Research became better, 

But the one around Diesel became messy.

This is because of the second time upgrade of conveyor.

(When you put conveyor in three roads and numbers of times of conveyor’s upgrade are 2, products and waste can’t separate properly. Zero, once and 3 times are no problem.)

The current upgrades▼

Diesel refinery produces diesels and waste at a ratio of 2:1.

So, you need to put three conveyors from diesel refinery. (or one conveyor branched out in three)

But, when you have upgraded conveyor twice, this is not going well.

One out of three conveyors produces only Diesels, so you can connect it to Tank seller directly.

The rest two conveyors are not exactly the same.

One produces more Diesels than Waste, and the other produces more Waste than Diesels.

So, I decided to give up on the conveyor which produces more waste,

But I devised about the one which produces more diesels to remove Waste and bring the rest Diesel to Tank seller even a little. (As a result, conveyors around Diesels are messy)

This work is important to increase the income.

The current income▼

◆4 months later (After putting Components in Gigafactory)

November 1st, 2021

Upgrades were progressed to some extent.

The total income were increased, too.

◆5 months later

December 1st, 2021

Nothing special.

Actually, I didn’t play it much.

So, Money and Research points only.

◆6 months later

January 4th, 2022

Shortly after this, finally I get Rocket.

I’m playing it in my spare time, so …

◆7 months later（Purchased : Rocket components）

February 3rd, 2022

It’s been a while since I get Rocket components.

There are Rockets in the bottom of the image.

And also, I upgraded Research center up to max in some factories.

◆8 months later

March 1st, 2022

Nothing special.

◆9 months later

April 6th, 2022

I upgraded Research center up to max in all factories.

Now I can use Research points and get “Chronometer” and “Clean engines”, but I’ll save the points and get “Quality center” first.

◆10 months later

May 3rd, 2022

◆11 months later(Purchased : Quality Center)

June 2nd, 2022

There are a pink component and a light blue one in upper center.

Pink one is Quality lab and the light blue one is Research center 4.

You can get many Research points if you bring Engines to Qualith lab, but now actually it doesn’t work in the image💧

So, the income of Research point didn’t increase very much.

But I could get “Chronometer” and "Clean engines”.

Upgrades▼

◆1 year later

July 5th, 2022

◆1 year and 1 month later (This way of notation may be not popular, but I take it)

August 10th, 2022

I upgraded conveyors for the 3rd time, only in “Gigafactory”.

And now I make efficient use of Quality lab and Research center 4.

And then, thanks to the upgrade, three conveyors from Diesel refinery became to separate the products and Garbages properly.

By the way, I’ll update this article irregularly after here.

◆1 year and 3 months later

September 28th, 2022

I changed the layout of “Megafactory” significantly for the first time in a year.

(I saved the money and put Rockets and Research center 4.)

◆1 year and 5 month later

November 3rd, 2022

I put more Research center 4 in Gigafactory.

I also put upper Rockets.

◆1 year and 11 months later

June 4th, 2023

I played this game for the first time in a long time.

The number of times I upgraded Conveyor : 

 “Factory” ; 1

 “Kilofactory” ; 2

 Others ; 3

I put more Research centers 4.

And I put Rocket in “Factory”, too↓

◆2 year and 1 month later

August 7th, 2023

I put more Quality labs and now earn a lot of Research points.

Factory▼

Look at the upper right conveyor in the image.

It’s too long. lol

Now Rockets are transported to the upper Tank seller, too.(The income in “Factory” increased.)

◆2 years and 2 months later

September 3rd, 2023

I put more Quality labs in Megafactory and Gigafactory.

Gigafactory▼ (I think this is a pretty efficient layout. two Tank sellers, two Rocket assemblies of 100% efficiency and 8 Quality labs)

Income▼

◆2 years and 3 months later

October 3rd, 2023

I have saved quite Research points for Drone.

In Megafactory, I upgraded many components to earn more money by Tanks and Rockets while I put more Quality labs to earn more Research points. (Loss of money has decreased.)

Megafactory▼

◆2 years and 4 months later (purchased: Drone)

November 1st, 2023

Finally, I got it.

Drone components are red.

※I occasionally update this article

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