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I'm not a gamer. If anything, I'm yet another old cranky coder guy complaining about new people and new stuff. Dang it! (Looks outside to check lawn) Having sa

I'm not a gamer. If anything, I'm yet another old cranky coder guy complaining about new people and new stuff. Dang it! (Looks outside to check lawn) Having said that, Factorio is the bomb. I like the point this essayist makes about closed vs. open-ended problem-solving. There's also the matter of building something for now vs. building something for later. Probably the biggest mistake I see in shops are people building for the endgame when they don't even have a basic and simple value loop set up. Factorio teaches this by direct practice and interaction. Because solving coding problems can take a long time, many times programmers can go an entire career without actually learning how to solve problems, instead just learning more and more about how to add solution details. For some, if they're not going to learn good architecture evolution here they'll never grok it. Recommended. But beware: it's a freaking huge time sink. I had to take it off all but one of my PCs.

c048 5y ago
The final warning is something that's not a joke. To quote a buddy of mine, after I jumped on Discord to play some other game with him, as I woke him out of his Factorio slumber: "Help, get me out of here. I don't remember building all this, nor when I last went to bed." He's no longer allowed to play Factorio. When another buddy recently bought it on sale and we told him this same story, he simply laughed it off. The last we've heard of him since was a few weeks back on Discord, simply stating "my god".
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AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
> But beware: it's a freaking huge time sink. I had to take it off all but one of my PCs. I didn't even enjoy[0] Factorio and it still ate just over 60 hours of my time, so please heed this warning everyone. Factorio is Nerd-Sniping: The Game. [0] I would like to take a moment to say that while I personally have a distaste for the kind of experience Factorio is, it is an incredibly well made version of what it is. I discovered only one bug[1] during my playthrough and the simulation can handle millions of interacting objects in a vast play area in real time to an impressive degree, and I don't consider myself to be easily impressed by the speed of modern software since modern computers are so ludicrously fast. [1] It is possible to drop the deconstruction planner into the world as an object an infinite number of times even before it unlocks.
johnnycerberus 5y ago
I think there's a fallacy. It's like people that get into chess for the sake of becoming better at logic. Which is good for a while until it becomes a problem of pure memorization. Or people that spend their time playing poker in order to get better with probabilities and statistics instead of going through a textbook with pen & paper. Factorio is a very good game, I've enjoyed it for a while, but it's not a replacement to solving coding problems.

c048 5y ago

The final warning is something that's not a joke. To quote a buddy of mine, after I jumped on Discord to play some other game with him, as I woke him out of his Factorio slumber: "Help, get me out of here. I don't remember building all this, nor when I last went to bed." He's no longer allowed to play Factorio. When another buddy recently bought it on sale and we told him this same story, he simply laughed it off. The last we've heard of him since was a few weeks back on Discord, simply stating "my god".

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AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago

> But beware: it's a freaking huge time sink. I had to take it off all but one of my PCs. I didn't even enjoy[0] Factorio and it still ate just over 60 hours of my time, so please heed this warning everyone. Factorio is Nerd-Sniping: The Game. [0] I would like to take a moment to say that while I personally have a distaste for the kind of experience Factorio is, it is an incredibly well made version of what it is. I discovered only one bug[1] during my playthrough and the simulation can handle millions of interacting objects in a vast play area in real time to an impressive degree, and I don't consider myself to be easily impressed by the speed of modern software since modern computers are so ludicrously fast. [1] It is possible to drop the deconstruction planner into the world as an object an infinite number of times even before it unlocks.

johnnycerberus 5y ago

I think there's a fallacy. It's like people that get into chess for the sake of becoming better at logic. Which is good for a while until it becomes a problem of pure memorization. Or people that spend their time playing poker in order to get better with probabilities and statistics instead of going through a textbook with pen & paper. Factorio is a very good game, I've enjoyed it for a while, but it's not a replacement to solving coding problems.