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I just got a copy on last week's Steam sale. It's tremendously good fun and a real time soaker :)

sleepybrett 10y ago
That's my main complaint with it. Because you can only act locally around your little man you have slog all over the map, which doesn't add to gameplay much (the attacking monsters are infrequent, as far as i've gotten in the game, and easily dealt with by turrets). I'm more interested, when playing the game, in making clever and efficient systems to move my bits around and the game, because of it's interface, makes that hard. Eventually I realize how many hours it's going to take to rearrange all my conveyers and I quit.
- jitl 10y ago
  The late-game tech really helps with this - you eventually get technologies that all you to blueprint and paste groups of buildings. This doesn't alleviate all of the issues, but it allows for component re-use and standardization. I do think some of the limits in Factorio are what make it fun, and differentiate it from a pure programming game. I usually struggle to play any game that's too similar to brainteasers, puzzling, or thinking about systems optimization: I would rather spend those hours just programming, which is just as fun, and far more rewarding. But Factorio is sooo much fun... especially if you set up a server and play with friends. I learned Chef getting my Factorio server running :) It's turtles all the way down in automation land.
- DonHopkins 10y ago
  Have you tried the Avatar mod? [1] It's like in-game VNC for virtual players! Once you manufacture your avatar limb by limb and put it together, you build a control console, which is like a stationary vehicle you stand next to and press "return" to "enter" -- then you're driving around your new avatar! It blows my mind what some of those mods can do. http://www.factoriomods.com/mods/avatars http://www.factoriomods.com/mods/avatars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOXb03ubISE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOXb03ubISE

That's my main complaint with it. Because you can only act locally around your little man you have slog all over the map, which doesn't add to gameplay much (the attacking monsters are infrequent, as far as i've gotten in the game, and easily dealt with by turrets). I'm more interested, when playing the game, in making clever and efficient systems to move my bits around and the game, because of it's interface, makes that hard. Eventually I realize how many hours it's going to take to rearrange all my conveyers and I quit.

jitl 10y ago
The late-game tech really helps with this - you eventually get technologies that all you to blueprint and paste groups of buildings. This doesn't alleviate all of the issues, but it allows for component re-use and standardization. I do think some of the limits in Factorio are what make it fun, and differentiate it from a pure programming game. I usually struggle to play any game that's too similar to brainteasers, puzzling, or thinking about systems optimization: I would rather spend those hours just programming, which is just as fun, and far more rewarding. But Factorio is sooo much fun... especially if you set up a server and play with friends. I learned Chef getting my Factorio server running :) It's turtles all the way down in automation land.
DonHopkins 10y ago
Have you tried the Avatar mod? [1] It's like in-game VNC for virtual players! Once you manufacture your avatar limb by limb and put it together, you build a control console, which is like a stationary vehicle you stand next to and press "return" to "enter" -- then you're driving around your new avatar! It blows my mind what some of those mods can do. http://www.factoriomods.com/mods/avatars http://www.factoriomods.com/mods/avatars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOXb03ubISE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOXb03ubISE