Automation Empire - CAPACITOR BUILD - Let's Play, Ep 16

[@Tntdruid]

Why change map? Other was more fun to watch. 🧐

[@Maeyanie]

I think what you're missing at 3:50ish is that it says the tax is 2% of your lifetime _profit_ rather than income. So yes, if you run at a loss you will pay less tax, because your lifetime profit is decreasing. However, by definition you will run out of money before your tax hits 0, since that would require your factory to lose as much money as it has made over the entire game.

[@UsuarioNuevo1996]

Thank you for another entertaining video. I wish you a nice day :D

[@mizzmatrix]

3:14 ...yeah, that's not how taxes work... Imagine that IRL 😱

[@KatherineOfSky]

It is *slightly* rough.

[@wongwayusa7435]

You got the game for free, but did they pay you to be a shill? The price is to high for what seems like an early access game. Good day madam

[@KatherineOfSky]

If I receive any money from a developer that has to be disclosed, as well as labeled with a Sponsored tag. Check the first minute of the first video for details. Please feel free to be an ass somewhere else.

[@WareWolf801]

@@KatherineOfSky you seem so nice on all your videos, like a school teacher or a mom.. Don't let jerks like this guy take your sparkle away. You're a good person, and you should know that, but I'm here to remind you. Please give the cat some pets from me, please?

[@Spharv2]

I don't know what it is about this game that seems to have driven these people out of the woodwork in force. KoS and others enjoy the game, despite some flaws, and she has been quite up front with the things she doesn't like about it. I bought it and enjoy what I got because I went in knowing what I was getting thanks to KoS and others. If you people are too incapable of thinking for yourselves to make up your own mind, don't blame others. Was the price high? Sure, a bit higher than it maybe should have been, but there's a simple solution if you don't like the price point...don't buy it. No need for you to make comments like this.

[@KatherineOfSky]

@@WareWolf801 Thanks so much! I am always upfront with everything that I do. It offends me when people think my opinion can be bought. I will definitely give Gizmo some cuddling for you!

[@KatherineOfSky]

@@Spharv2 Indeed. I played the game for 4 hours BEFORE I made a video, and even then I was on the fence. I think a lot of people don't realize the very steep learning curve and don't give the game a chance before they review it negatively. Your advice is the best: if you think the price is too high, then don't buy it. It really is that simple.

[@pyranna2003]

2% of lifetime earnings as tax?! Imagine if taxes irl worked that way by the time you reach 40 your paycheck would be a tax bill Oh oh, last night I figured out something with truck throughput. 3 parking spots is the "max" number per road. With max speed claw loaders and max speed trucks, the 4th parking spot should literally never see a truck. If you do get a 4th truck, there's a bottleneck somewhere in your loading stage.

[@IcedLance]

It's quite clever as a game mechanic. What it does effectively is if you make your game run indefinitely eventually tax will grow to zero out profit. In total for every point of weekly (as taxes are weekly) profit you'll make 50x points of cash before tax grow to match it. Since game shows profit for a month, you can roughly multiply it by 12 and that's how much money you'll earn. Then you'll have to use that money to increase profit and so on.

[@Ken_Stauder]

So I played too much yesterday, went to bed today. *Newb tips for all push down the wheel -Middle mouse button to adjust view angle R- rotate t- adjust curve size Strange we have Music volume in settings,,, but no music

[@waltermundt]

The tax thing is my biggest concern about this game because the consequences of it are so sneaky. I really wish the game explained it in more detail or had more explicit ways to manage it. I've actually shelved the game to watch post-release updates just to keep my refund option open, because this just doesn't sound like a fun "lose" condition for the game.

[@ThrashNeon]

I think the research lab color may be an intermittent graphic glitch - in Nilaus' first few vids, there was no color, but later, the color was back. *shrug*

[@Oaklestat]

Katherine Could you go over what exactly a water tank affects? because I have a hard time figuring out what it actually does in game and if it's worth it. Maybe there's something in game that tells me that I haven't found.

[@schung14gmail]

Looks like the taxes are based on all your assets, maybe sell all your stuff and check the percentage that way. But save the game first.

[@KatherineOfSky]

It says based on total profit, not assets.

[@schung14gmail]

@@KatherineOfSky if it's all your profits over time then that equal all your income minus all your expenses over the whole play through. That should be the total money you have if you sell all your stuff since everything is refunded completely. If that is the case then the tax would never more than what you are capable of paying off, without making any changes to your build. It should eventually reach an equilibrium with your total income for the current month. So the net profit will be zero, but after a very long time. I think people are freaking out over the tax issue is because they feel it will eventually overtake what they are capable of making. In a way it's like a soft cap on the total amount of money you will be able to work with based on your build.

[@katerspam]

Crack Turvature

[@nathanlynch6041]

Thx for your continued content.... even with Gizmo substitute... (thx Cal ;) )... I miss your home noisy kittiez..

[@AufBerghofNAM]

NOte! You do not run a business to achieve tax-optimization, you run a business to achieve maximum return on assets.

[@AufBerghofNAM]

onyl thing that matters between the ppl on ytube uploading these games is the $ score... lets be honest...KoS farr ahead

[@HunkyChunky112]

both taxes and power bill are raising for ever

[@Pyzro]

So you need step belts for turns and transfers, but can you use the unloading belt for all other straight locations? It looks like the unloading belts allow for crates to be right next to each other vs step belts requiring a space.

[@KatherineOfSky]

As in Factorio, throughput is limited by the slowest speed connector.

[@travis3631]

Love the video¡¡¡!!!!!¡

[@hayzersolar]

My computer runs factorio ok have sittings turn down what kind of demand does this game have thanks awesome videos

[@Atomica1989]

Official Minimum Requirements Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 7/8/10 64-bit Processor: 3.2 GHz Dual Core Processor Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 660 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 4 GB available space

[@Atomica1989]

Official Recommended Requirements Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 7/8/10 64-bit Processor: 3.2 GHz Quad Core Processor Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce 960 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 4 GB available space

[@Aereto]

As with a lot of 3D games, a decent graphics card is needed, and also a ok CPU to avoid the game fighting with the OS for the workload priority. 16GB of RAM has been the norm since 8GB is starting to see some strangling.

[@Eon2641]

Look up canirunit dot com, very useful website that'll straight up tell you with no fuss.

[@9fingergaming]

that tax issues literally took the fun out of the gmae for me you cant even AFK without eventually starting to lose money

[@KatherineOfSky]

This is really not an AFK game....

[@9fingergaming]

@@KatherineOfSky when you want to build some money to expand you'd expect to be able to AFK a while but the more your waiting around the more your tax is going up

[@ulrian5632]

yes, that is true. But your tax are only going up because you have higher capital. You could separate the current taxes in upkeep (2% of acquisition cost) and taxes on the current capital owned. So with more capital you pay more taxes. That stops you only from getting huge benefit from afk. But it doesn't mean you have some pressure to reach a higher output.

[@9fingergaming]

@@ulrian5632 it isnt based on capital, its based on total value earned overall, so if youve made 5 billion but are only genrating 200k a month your taxed based on that 5 billion and that only increases the more you earn overall

[@ulrian5632]

Sry, a bit late. No, it isn't on total value earned. It is on Total Profit. And Total Profit is at end Current Capital + Acquistion Cost. Yes, if you have 200k income after taxes your tax will still go up (without building anything). This is only because your capital grows and that only until your profit before taxes = taxes. That means income after taxes is 0. But that doesn't mean you can't expand further it only means your current capital won't go up without more income (=production lines). I think this kind of tax system a good feature and it works great in this game. You will never think that you are in creative. Because there will never a point that you have so much money that it is impossible to spend it all. But at the end it makes the game not more difficult and gives no real pressure.