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> takes a reasonable amount of math knowledge figure out hard pass. I do not enjoy when a video game makes me feel like a failure because I don't know trigono
by naikrovek 3y ago
> takes a reasonable amount of math knowledge figure out
hard pass. I do not enjoy when a video game makes me feel like a failure because I don't know trigonometry or calculus.
- remarkEon 3y agoWeirdly I actually like games that make me alt-tab and then look up some equations and open excel for a bit. (No, I will not try EVE)
- phist_mcgee 3y agoEVE is bookkeeping disguised as a game.
- evandale 3y agoYou don't even have to alt tab out to use Excel, they've added to the game. Seems like it doesn't fit your criteria for games you'd like anymore so there's no reason to try! :P https://support.eveonline.com/hc/en-us/articles/8165207770524-EVE-Online-Excel-Add-in https://support.eveonline.com/hc/en-us/articles/816520777052... (I mean this in jest)
- BlueTemplar 3y agoAmazing, but why not something open source like LibreOffice instead ?!
- remarkEon 3y agoOh my goodness. ... wait, how hard would it be to do something similar for Factorio?
- randomcarbloke 3y agoyou no longer have to manually calculate transverse velocity and tracking speeds of turrets in Eve, unfortunately.
- freeone3000 3y agoNo trig or calc, every formula is linear. There’s some very non-integer factors in there, but if you take “time” as an input you can do it all with algebra.
- mikrl 3y agoThere are some geometry and rate problems such as multiplexing resources on a belt.
- lowbloodsugar 3y agoHonestly, I think the feeling of not wanting to have to bust out a spreadsheet to play a video game is entirely reasonable and shouldn't be downvoted. but this is HN in 2023, so he'll get downvoted, while, who does use a spreadsheet will get downvoted when I admit that the spreadsheet I use is from Microsoft. =)
- aerio 3y agoYou don't have to though. Base facrorio does not require any spreadsheets or math (other than production lines for efficiency, but that's kind of the nature of the game.) It's a mod, and so not required and already something you decided to optionally add to your game.
- BlueTemplar 3y agoAnd for production lines, you have plenty of mods that can do the math for you : Helmod / Factory Planner, Actual Craft Time, Rate Calculator...