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[-] Leeks@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

Factorio has seen tons of bugs in its development. It just so happens that the developers are some of the most effective bug squashers in the world of software development.

[-] Leeks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The 6000 unit tests they run on every build is the most effective bug squasher!

[-] dosuser123456 13 points 2 weeks ago

i should try that one out someday

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

It's the closest we'll ever come to time travel. You start playing and suddenly it's the next morning.

[-] aptgetrekt@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

I cannot believe they legalized recreational factorio.

[-] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I've never experienced a game that destroys time faster than this one, agreed. It also makes you sound completely unhinged to your partner when talking about what you just spent 6 hours doing.

[-] Dultas@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

That was me at 4am this morning.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

how does it compare with the civilization games in that respect?

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Civ doesn't compare at all, it is nothing. Completing the main scenario (building a silo and launching a rocket) can take days to weeks if you jump in with zero knowledge.

Factorio is the definition of a dopamine drip. You start with a pickaxe and work your way up through the technology tree. Coal, coal-burning mining rigs, smelting furnaces, conveyor belts, coal-burning inserters, steam generators, electricity, assemblers, vehicles, oil processing, chemical processing, better generators, better automation, more complex materials... and that's just the individual items. You'll have to build assembly lines for increasingly complex items, transport networks with conveyor belts, pipes, or trains, find raw material quarries and wells because everything is finite, then either manage air pollution or expect to be overrun by alien bugs. Small individual steps, but they add up very quickly and there's always something to do.

I'm forcing myself not to buy the recently released expansion because I know I'll lose days to it. If you have ADHD or a thing for automation, it is stupidly addictive. The factory must grow.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

If you have ADHD or a thing for automation, it is stupidly addictive.

i have both of those things. i’m a bit scared of what will happen if i buy this game. i still want to play it someday when i have a bit more free time, but it sounds like it’s probably best to wait a bit. its already hard enough to resist the urge to start new civ6 games. thank you for the comparison, it was very helpful.

[-] dosuser123456 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

i also have adhd.....

[-] vrek@programming.dev 9 points 2 weeks ago

It's a great time as space age aka 2.0 just released. If you're the type to get absorbed into min/maxing stuff, remember to say goodbye and I love you to your family before launching factorio.

[-] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago

I mean factorio has tons of bugs

Oh you mean s*ftware bugs!

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

Having your spacecraft ripped apart by floating point rounding errors was part of the charm, and I'm sure that some speedrunner has used a massive disintegration bomb to cause the physics calculation frame to hang and phase through an obstacle.

[-] dosuser123456 11 points 2 weeks ago

i used to exploit that a lot

[-] 9bananas@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

there's a whole sub-community around building physics exploit driven crafts:

look up "kraken drives" ;)

[-] dosuser123456 2 points 1 week ago

hell yea i always like making em >:D

[-] Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Glitched/bug machines are the best in games, I used to enjoy Reid Captain on YT when he would use some physics bending engine to move so fast it's basically like teleportation.

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Kerbal "mod spaghetti" program

[-] dosuser123456 5 points 2 weeks ago
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