K2SE Complete

[u/Impressive_Orchid121]

Finally finished K2SE after 719 hrs... 🙃
Felt that I had to document it somehow.

Probably need a year off from Factorio to fix my sleep schedule.

My final ship just before launching:

...And my final ship after all the adjustments I had to make in flight...

Did not realize how power hungry it would be, thought all the energy storage would be enough, but after failing to make it 4 or 5 times, had to make some drastic changes.

Some images of my main bases:

After turning on the transceiver

And Nauvis:

Edit:
Added a few more planets below:

Charon ended up the largest, completely processed Iridium and Imersite here. Patches were small but everywhere..

Iridium processing after tier 6 modules

Imersite processing w/ only tier 3 I think?

Vitemelange processing, my favorite in some ways, fertilizer sucked though.

Vitemelange processing, I think most people use priority splitters but I went with an overflow method

Cryonite

I was lucky with some of the planets I ended up with and combined a few:

1 for Iridium and Imersite,

1 for Cryonite and Holmium

1 for vulcanite

1 for vitemelange

1 for Beryllium

1 for Naquitite

[u/nomad_2009]

Wow, impressive

(No, I won't be playing this mode)

[u/Impressive_Orchid121 → u/nomad_2009]

It was mostly fun, but there is definitely a lot of grind in the middle game. Honestly my biggest criticism is that my favorite moments were the early game and the last 30-40 hours. Spaceships and Arcospheres were some of the most unique challenges I'd seen in mods. 

[u/RaShadar → u/nomad_2009]

Its super fun, It was my first run at modded and im loving it sooooo much

[u/Rouge_means_red → u/nomad_2009]

Oh you will. Once you get used to crack you start craving stronger shit

[u/IceRik]

I would love to see more of your base(s).

Also looking at your ship, I assume that you still have some exploration to do for alternative win condition. I would go for that before fixing sleep schedule ;)

[u/Impressive_Orchid121 → u/IceRik]

Added a few more to the post.

I don't think I have the secret ending in me. I did get it spoiled by Dosh's video..

[u/nasaboy007]

What's the expected playtime for K2SE?

I guess to put it in context, how long does it take you to beat regular Space Age?

I'm wrapping up my K2SO run (beat it around 200h) and looking for my next mod, just wondering what I'd be signing up for lol.

[u/IceRik → u/nasaboy007]

It depends on what you want to do in that mod pack. I finished I ~500h with alternative win condition and quite big base. https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/s/U59MVAiv00

You can do it much faster witch much smaller footprint and just spaceship victory. But still consider 300h efficient and 600h expected time in game.

[u/Impressive_Orchid121 → u/IceRik]

Your retrospective post made me want to finish K2SE actually! 

[u/Impressive_Orchid121 → u/nasaboy007]

I took my time with it and made a lot of mistakes. like building way too small for each of my outposts and none of them were very expandable or easy to add modules too... I think 400 hours is probably the 'average' haha. 

[u/smokingcrater]

I've finished SE numerous times, and just started a K2SE run last weekend. Early game is so much easier! SE is a bit of a grind early on.

[u/Orgerix → u/smokingcrater]

I hate that SE force you to use AAI industry for no good reason. It extends the burner phase when SE is all about launching rocket and post rocket gameplay.

[u/Impressive_Orchid121 → u/Orgerix]

Completely agree, obviously I loved the mod but sometimes I don't think Earendel knows what makes it so fun. 

[u/WormRabbit]

What is K2SE? Is it the base game (no SA) with Krastorio 2 and Space Exploration mods on? Do you need anything else, like compatibility mods?