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Does Structure Modules work in factorys yet or do we still have to hand feed them?

Nope they workfine - made a batch yesterday from 4 crates of structure mods.

Been doing that today...gave her all the ore and metal and have a ton of walls now but obviously they are sick of it and have given the stuff back and are gonna make statues instead.

Its just frustrating as I dont have a lot of lots for factories.

Find a friend with a combat character to hold your factories for you. There was a thread a little while ago on "how many factories do you run?" - it ran from 1 up to into the teens.

I have 2 structure factories. I try to have structure modules running as much as possible in one of them. The other one makes walls and then harvesters in batches.

I run 3 structure factories, I have at least 2 running full time, I make walls even when I don't need them and store any excess. Even with just 1 factory I would have thought it likely you can get some spare time. I make walls in batches of 1000. Not difficult to do if you have the resources, since the structure modules just have to be similar I make sure I have enough ore and metal for a full run of 1000 walls, then throw a schematic together, this just goes in and out of a factory as and when (it usually just stays, but if I am using all the factories I simply put in a new schematic for omus or whatever, the walls one automatically pops out, then I put it back when I have the factory free again). I currently hold around 800 walls in stock and like to keep over 500 available at all times. That way I never have to wait for walls. I do the same for the other common components, sssms and gen turbines make 1000 at a time, there is some wastage of course as I often end up with 20-30 of something that I cannot use in a factory run, but these can always be used up in hand-mades later. This leaves me only needing to make the major components (omus. fdps etc) and the final combine when I need to make something in a hurry to fill up my vendors.

Cheers for the replies...im gonna have to sort a lot trade I reckon to get 5 factories placed.

Err...anyone here not on Radiant interested in a lot trade?

I'm similar to most of those replying here. I have 3 structures going. 2 of them on modules/walls at all times, and the other for deeds, OMUs, turbines, etc. I then also have 4 other 1 lot factories dropped in which I use their input hoppers as storage. Nothing like trying to store a load of OMUs that don't crate. Once I had the 10 lots filled with factories, I did a static lot trade and freed those 10 back up.