Rusty Shackleford Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 A game about the wonders of automation. Everyone knows about Minecraft, Terarria, Starbound, etc etc. And everyone knows how tedious it is to strip mine a continent to extract barely enough resources to craft yourself a single piece of mid-tier gear. The creators of Factorio saw that problem, and then thought about how much better those games would be if you could delegate mining to mindless, soulless robots so you could focus on the crafting. And then they thought about how much better it would be if you could automate the crafting process. And then if you automated the process of building machines to automate the crafting process. And so on and so forth. And then they threw in automated sentry guns, face-biting man-sized insects and high explosives, and mixed it all up in an overarching sci-fi setting. It's fucking amazing. Quote Link to comment
Sentient Bowtie Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 It truly is. [wipes tear from eye] There's also trains. You forgot mass transport via trains. Quote Link to comment
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Sentient Bowtie Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 I want this game so badly because so far I've only played the demo and seen videos. Quote Link to comment
Kerbal22 Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Roosty, that is PLEB SHIT. Quote Link to comment
Rusty Shackleford Posted February 26, 2015 Author Share Posted February 26, 2015 You only need one offshore pump and twelve boilers to operate 18+ steam engines at full capacity. lern2electricity skrub. Quote Link to comment
Kerbal22 Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Those were all originally separate, besides, Offshore pumps don't cost too terribly much and i have loads of extra capacity. Quote Link to comment
tuiee Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 I bought it. Oh my goodness. It's so good. Quote Link to comment
Rusty Shackleford Posted March 7, 2015 Author Share Posted March 7, 2015 I built a train. I was subsequently squashed by the very same train on its round trip because I didn't put down a signal. I also ended up building several rows of trains to encircle a biter hive to keep them from attacking my walls. Aw. Yiss. Quote Link to comment
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