There's still plenty of room for creativity even with an extreme top-down approach, like this series does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ8QDQmOoys https://w

There's still plenty of room for creativity even with an extreme top-down approach, like this series does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ8QDQmOoys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ8QDQmOoys > Over a few months I designed an entire Factorio base without testing any of it. The goal is to create a mid-sized base capable of building a megabase. A secondary goal is to not break down or rebuild anything ever. The challenge isn't that it's hard to figure out the ratios or math out the machines you need, it's in getting to having the production to make that base without falling asleep waiting on things. Continual bootstrapping towards that end goal is the gameplay.