I want to try factorio but I’m afraid I’ll get hooked
I cannot stress this enough if you’re remotely worried you’d get addicted you definitely should NOT play. I used to do opioids and I’m not exaggerating this game was more addictive for me. Like lose your job addictive. I’m adhd and on the ASD and absolutely obsessed with the concept of optimization. The thing is you’ll never really reach peak automation unless you do like this project, 400 people 10,000s of hours.
I’ll give you another reference point. I’ve also played wow, Arma Life, and Foxhole, all very common addicting games. I’d sit down to play one of those with a beer and after a ~3-5 hours and a few beers I’d take a break and notice time went by. Factorio I’d sit down at 6pm and never touch my beer, never move an inch from my seat and think a few hours went by when it’s now 8am and I only notice 14 hours went by because I see fucking sun light.
Fuck this video really makes me wanna play again haha.
As someone with a large capacity for addiction and medicated ADHD, thank you for this warning.
Sometimes, it’s easy to be lulled into a sense of wellbeing, only to fall headfirst into a hyperactive episode on some seemingly innocuous hobby or game.
I’d rather obsess over a productive self-interest if I’m going to lose sleep over it
Sounds like your average civilization game, to be honest. Freakishly addictive
Fuck I gotta play it
be very afraid
Don’t worry, you can’t craft hooks in Factorio.
With mods you can! More specifically, a grappling hook!
Just watch out for that train
I know we all joke about this being a cult, but…
Someone build a giant throne in the middle of this thing, I think I know what needs to be done.
I think I know what needs to be done too but… How are we going to get Emma Watson’s shoes?
I’m pretty sure Quentin Tarantino would be down to help.
The same way we do every night, Pinkie.
I tried to build someone on one the nodes but it was torn down because I wasn’t using a fully balanced ups efficient design.
Its cool going on there and seeing how fast the bots and miners work. The bots telephone around.
The general absence of electric trains in factorio kills my immersion. Like yeah, they would make nuclear powered trains obsolete but overhead wire already makes that an insane proposition in real life.
It’s because they don’t want to trivialize the refueling puzzle part of the game.
There is a mod for that, https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ElectricTrains
There’s a mod for electric trains. Actually there are several.
kills my immersion
Bruh the game is not trying to immerse you it’s a puzzle.
I’m glad I was able to immerse you in the seriousness of my opinion.
I’m currently using space trains, along with the space exploration mod. The trains run on batteries, and they are blazingly fast. I easily lose track of them through my orbital rail grid.
You play as a dumb dumb who can’t comprehend electric trains
I like to think of it as even worse. It’s likely that the drivetrains themselves are already electric and just running on coal gas, oil, or nuclear power plants to electric like our current locomotive engines. You’re just too dumb to figure out how to wire your powergrid to them. It’s like the US cargo train situation in a nutshell.
Seems like it could just scale, why would it take hundreds of players? For the joint computing power?
Yeah they’re going way beyond what a single game session can handle. ~500GB of RAM combined!
RTFA (yes)
It’s explained in the article. There’s a hard-coded limit on the rate of science you can produce.
based god factory
All hail
The God factory must grow
Factorio is proprietary software, Mindustry isn’t
It’s also just a game. No one needs it to be productive.
Edit, ok actually looked at Mindustry. It looks fun, but it’s also nothing like Factorio. Don’t know why you brought it up.
Besides, even if Factorio isn’t open source, it is available for Linux as a DMR free download. We should be supporting it.
Open source is more important for productivity software. Servers, Office Suites, Graphics and Game Engines. The game itself isn’t as important for opensource, as a game company changing the play mechanics wont effect someone’s income.
I might’ve missed it, but what’s that got to do with the article?
I spend too much time on lemmy: I immediately assumed your comment was a meta-joke about lemmy, since every post about a software has a comment about its foss analogue. But now I’m unsure whether you were serious or not. Anyway it made me lol.
lol
Entertainment doesn’t need to be FOSS lol. In fact it usually doesn’t make any sense to.
Didn’t the developer of this come out as a racist or something?
He referenced a developer in a blog post who has some problematic “old school tech” ideas. When people told him to add a trigger warning to his blog post he told them to shove it up their ass. Then reddit did a reddit and tried to cancel him.
Tldr no
Old school tech? Do people get offended by Commodore 64s? Danger of triggering punch card PTSD?
Hint it’s not the old school tech that was the problem
Ah so by “old school tech” they mean he is a bigoted misogynist but supposedly in some charming mad men type of way. Wonderful.
More like mid-1900s NASA scientists kind of way
He referenced a talk about programming made by a conservative guy called uncle bob, in a blog post and doubled down that he doesn’t care
The talk used to be referenced often but now less for both some of the technical principles falling out of fashion, and the author just pushing bad take after bad take thinking he’s 10 steps ahead while staying 20 steps behind because he can’t tell the difference. And also the conservative stuff
https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2018/12/14/SJWJS.html
https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/981218164427165701
https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/1088552799753945088
It was all just a “do we separate art from the artist” discussion
Oh man, who the hell ties their cart to Uncle Bob? That man stands as a true classic of the Graham Lineman “I have some issues with the trans movement” -> actually hanging out with Alex Jones/disowned by friends and family pipeline.
The devs are from Eastern Europe. It’s not exactly surprising that they would be a few years behind the times socially.
Where “behind the times socially” means “not falling for the Americans alwayslooking for something to be upset about”.
Huh, I always thought the Czech Republic, where their studio sits, was more accepting of non-cis folks. Turns out they’re still not even past debating gay marriage.
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition_of_same-sex_unions_in_the_Czech_Republic
