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Please, please don't mention Factorio, it's too addictive. I bought it on Steam during Christmas 2 years ago and almost forgot there's a world outside. I spent
by snicky 7y ago
Please, please don't mention Factorio, it's too addictive. I bought it on Steam during Christmas 2 years ago and almost forgot there's a world outside. I spent 80 hours playing it in a couple of days and it was just one game. Later I found out that most people beat it much faster (https://howlongtobeat.com/game.php?id=17455 https://howlongtobeat.com/game.php?id=17455) and it made the guilt of wasting time even stronger.
It is an awesome game though. Just don't start.
- krallja 7y agoIt’s called cracktorio for a reason. The factory must grow.
- butz 7y agoYou know, it can be completed even faster https://www.speedrun.com/factorio https://www.speedrun.com/factorio
- keithnz 7y agoooo, nefrums got pushed down today.... so I expect he will do another run pretty soon, he usually live streams it on twitch. Given his last run, and all the mistakes he made, he should be able to get sub 2 hours
- sleepybrett 7y ago... then I probably shouldn't tell you about satisfactory.. add a dimension to your factory.
- keymone 7y agoover 1000 hours of entertainment. for less than $30. can't beat that. zero guilt.
- henrikschroder 7y agoOh, you liked Factorio? Let me tell you about this game called Oxygen Not Included, it's similar, but with more thermodynamics, and cute little dupes running around... I only have 560 hours played so far.
- gridspy 7y agoYou, my friend, are true evil. Also, I have a lava powerstation.
- henrikschroder 7y agoI like my magma-powered petroleum boiler. Still haven't built a sour gas boiler, but one of these days I'll get there!
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 7y agoONI's bugs killed me. You spend a zillion hours building up a colony, then another few hours routing up some wires to get a closed feedback system, and then the system glitches and cant resolve the wire routing or the pipe routing or something and it all breaks down. Frustrating like a programming language with no error messages and a buggy compiler.
- glenneroo 7y agoWhen did you last play? They frequently release updates/bugfixes so you might want to pop in again to see if things haven't improved. Also that's where creative mode really shines - to test out ideas because getting the proper ratios plus fighting bugs can take a lot of trial and error i.e. "debugging".
- DonHopkins 7y agoDo you mean fighting bugs in the code, or literally fighting those weird bugs that fly around the caverns? Do they get aggressive, like the biters in Factorio?
- glenneroo 7y agoYou don't have to fight any critters in ONI, at least not that I'm aware of. You can kill, cook, wrangle, breed and farm them for resources, as many of them provide useful input/outputs, such as feeding Hatches your "trash" in order to produce coal. I often to refer to this list for help with which ones are useful: https://oxygennotincluded.gamepedia.com/Critter https://oxygennotincluded.gamepedia.com/Critter
- Buttons840 7y agoCome on, just play for 10 minutes! My last 3 Factorio games have started well, then I try "the big rebuild", then it starts to feel like work and I go program instead.
- buckminster 7y agoI had much the same experience with SpaceChem. I haven't dared buy Factorio.
- Baeocystin 7y agoI use unrepentant coal-powered spaghetti until I get nukes and bots. Then I auto-deconstruct my shame and let the bots deal with my blueprints. :D
- darzu 7y agoNote that self-reported numbers like that tend to be biased towards those who are optimizing for time or are more experienced.
- darzu 7y agoFor others looking for Factorio-like games, I highly highly recommend Satisfactory.
- joshstrange 7y agoAny idea when it will be out on Steam?
- gridspy 7y agoThey said Soon(tm) on their latest trailer.
- louwrentius 7y agoI've wasted 2000+ hours of my life according to Steam on Factorio. At this moment I'm beyond shame to admit it.
- dunefox 7y agoI played it for a couple hours (4-5) with a friend and then stopped, because I was bored out of my mind.
- sarah180 7y agoBeating Factorio quickly is not the primary point. It's more of an engineering sandbox than an objective. (Of course optimizing for time is valid.) Also, please tell me how to pack 80 hours of anything into a couple days. :-)
- asdfasgasdgasdg 7y agoThe primary point of Factorio is what you want it to be, right? There are explicitly speedrunning achievements so surely that type of thing is the point for some folks. And to a certain mindset (time) efficiency is one thing that is fun to optimize.
- DonHopkins 7y agoI've watched a bunch of Factorio vidoes (like KathrineOfSky, and her multi player guest games), and it strikes me how vastly different people's styles are. There was one where she was playing with a German guy who LOVED filling in nice neat square coast lines, and she liked to leave them all "natural".
- awalton 7y ago> Beating Factorio quickly is not the primary point. Maybe, but once you get into speed running it, it certainly feels like doing things slowly is against the point. (That and everything before robots feels so glacially slow... hard to adjust with Seablock and robots and good logistics chests being so far down the tech tree...)
- LeifCarrotson 7y agoYou start on a Friday, forego sleep and responsibilities, and let your weekend couple-of-days spill into a Monday with a brief distracted work day and the early hours of Tuesday.
- willis936 7y agoDid I really need to make a 2x2 self-regulating nuclear power plant that is fed by a 3x2 beaconed kovarex sushi belt? No, but I wanted to.
- gnulinux 7y agoFactorio is like entertainment jackpot. You pay $30 and have endless entertainment for a lifetime. I played upwards 300 hours, still no sign of getting burn-out. Probably at some point I'll move on, but it's a practically infinite game...
- awalton 7y agoI'm literally 3000 hours into Factorio and haven't burnt out on it. In fact, I'm just barely starting to get into the mods; I've done two complete Seablock runs (0.16 and 0.17), and I'm currently doing a Brave New World + Seablock run.
- fragmede 7y agohttps://factoryidle.com/ https://factoryidle.com/ is another similar game but it's browser based for those who aren't on a platform supported by Factorio.
- wenc 7y agoFactorio is apparently Tobi Luetke's (CEO of Shopify) current favorite game, and in a podcast he mentioned it helped him hone the faculties needed to run a company.
- Brave-Steak 7y agoI've spent over 100 hours on Factorio. Somehow I still haven't managed to launch the rocket. I always ending up some cool mod and I start a new game.
- keithnz 7y agomy fastest to finish the game so far is just over 4 hours. Which is about twice the fastest speedruns. Check out Nefrums who does speedruns of factorio... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo9CIGA3vGlkuGGzTLPvJ5g https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo9CIGA3vGlkuGGzTLPvJ5g
- hutzlibu 7y agoYou clearly enjoyed it. So why consider it a waste of time?
- joshstrange 7y agoDear god... Steam says 800+ hours but I stopped playing it on steam a while back and shudder to think how much time I've dropped into that game. Easily over 1500 if not closer to 2000.