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Friday Factorio Facts #381 – Space Platforms
- drexlspivey 3y agoIf you enjoy factorio give Captain of Industry a try, it’s an awesome game and the creator is a regular here. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1594320/Captain_of_Industry/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1594320/Captain_of_Indust...
- gottorf 3y agoSigh... because I have all this spare time to devote another thousand hours into this game, right? ;-)
- iwonthecase 3y agoSo much of my potential productivity would be lost if Dyson Sphere Program or Captain of Industry ran on macs.
- number6 3y agoDSP... Hours and hours... The satisfaction when it was finished... This was great. Played it on GeForce Now
- faluzure 3y agoI'd love to, but I need to finish my Space Exploration run first! 200h in and I'm not done with the four sciences (and I'm still using bots in space for the majority of them).
- jetrink 3y agoI love how when asteroids are destroyed, they break apart into smaller asteroids just like in the old arcade game.
- MadnessASAP 3y agoI fully expect that in the distant future when humanity is (hopefully) moving, mining, and colonizing asteroids. Video game asteroids will still break into smaller asteroids when shot with lasers.
- dom96 3y agoThose thrusters look awesome.
- cainxinth 3y agoThe animation is wonderful
- apocalyptic0n3 3y agoAll of it looks awesome. The level of detail in the Factorio art style is absurd.
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- gampleman 3y agoI understand the idea to go with belts as they are a core and fun feature of Factorio gameplay, but... conveyor belts really need gravity to work. Perhaps a funner way to do this would be to play with inertia in space, where stuff just travels in a straight line, so you could just have launchers and catchers that just hurl material along.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoFair point, lol; for now I'm imagining it's magnets. The other thing they could do is pneumatic pipes. There's the Space Exploration mod, it had special space belts, but they were still just belts.
- lionkor 3y agoyou suspend your disbelief and just say the conveyors have little buckets on them, or are sticky!
- gampleman 3y agoI could suspend my disbelief, or you know, the Factorio team could actually just draw the buckets :D
- cesarb 3y agoKeep in mind that these are the same conveyor belts which somehow work even before you built your first electric power plant. If they're magic enough to transport items without any power source, they can be magic enough to transport items in space. > [...] so you could just have launchers and catchers that just hurl material along. Take a look at this mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/RenaiTransportation https://mods.factorio.com/mod/RenaiTransportation
- gampleman 3y agoThat is a hilarious mod.
- gene-h 3y ago
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoI tried Space Exploration and honestly it became rather tedious; it looks like this is a lot more ergonomic. I'm itching to play Factorio again but I know if I pick it up now I won't want to play when this expansion is released.
- MiguelHudnandez 3y agoSimilarly,a combat update for Dyson Sphere Program will be coming out in a month or so. I've found DSP to be satisfying in the same ways as Factorio but with some unique flair all its own. Particularly just how beautiful the game is, you'll just be minmaxing some component of your supply chain and you will happen to witness a sunrise filled up partially with your own contraptions. It can be stunning. It seems like a certain kind of person can just hop between Factorio, Satisfactory, and Dyson Sphere Program to scratch whatever that itch is called. :D
- reedf1 3y agoDyson Sphere Program is a genuine work of art. The scale and beauty can be genuinely astonishing. I wish it was more approachable only so more people could experience it.
- jcranmer 3y agoI've got a lovely screenshot of a polar sunrise behind the mammoth research towers, all going full bore (so they're glowing with the current research). Truly a beautiful game.
- AlexAndScripts 3y agoCould you send the screenshot? It sounds awesome
- klysm 3y agoThe world would look very different if software was generally developed like this.
- nintendork 3y agocurious to hear you elaborate on this
- AbraKdabra 3y agoI think OP is referring to the fact that the Factorio devs are fucking awesome, they listen to the community, fix bugs in record time, add fun things to the game and even fix bugs that affect third party mods, which is unseen in any other modded game. If software development could be something near how the Factorio devs carry their game, we sure would live in a better world.
- aequitas 3y agoAlso their test automation is pretty sweet: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-62 https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-62
- MontagFTB 3y agoUsing inserters to dump trash into space is a brilliant and seamless mechanic. Yet another example of care in the Factorio game model.
- stronglikedan 3y agoWhat a beautiful game. It's not my preferred style of gameplay, but I love to watch it in action.
- positr0n 3y agoI love that the space platform mechanics basically reward super dense spaghetti.
- red_admiral 3y agoSomeone at factorio has been playing Galaxy Trucker.
- gampleman 3y agoYeah the engines on back, guns in front is super Galaxy Trucker-esque.
- dpkirchner 3y agoOT: Anyone here know of any mixed-reality/AR games like Factorio? I think it'd be fun to build a virtual thing on my desk and bolt it on to a factory (say, in another room, or just behind me).