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Where does one begin playing Factorio? Is there a place which doesn't make it feel like work?
by sudhirkhanger 6y ago
Where does one begin playing Factorio? Is there a place which doesn't make it feel like work?
- devenvdev 6y agoYou just start it. Beware - this game is notorious for showing you in your face that whatever doesn't work in your base is YOUR problem, you made a mistake, probably plural, probably too basic to fix. So prepare to start over multiple times. It's my at least tenth attempt in 5 years right now. And it's lots of fun!
- jon-wood 6y agoFactorio by its nature does tend to feel a bit like work, whether that's a good thing or not is going to depend on your personality. Whether I enjoy it depends very much what I'm doing in my actual job, if I'm in a period where I'm hands on writing code every day then finishing work and playing a game which is about incrementally building a system that inevitably needs refactoring or completely rebuilding to meet new requirements isn't much fun. If I'm in a period where the day job is planning projects, or supervising things with a long term payoff, Factorio is great for the satisfaction of picking it up and being able to achieve something concrete in a few hours. Just remember, on at least your first 10 or so runs, what you think is a massive base that just needs some incremental improvements really isn't. Its the base you build in order to build the components for your actual base.