with a thriving community of players and grassroot developers and it would have been that to this day if it wasn't for the atrocious 2.0 SpaceAge cashgrab release that killed the game. 2.0 broke almost all mods and unfixed what players have fixed and SpaceAge is such a ridiculous insult to the player's intelligence that the game died immediately after. Good riddance.

>tfw 1,145 hours so far
>tfw another thousand to go
Still pretty cool.

>>713243743
There are no games worth playing thousands of hours.
There is no new content to experience. There are no new mechanics to learn.
Trying to squeeze out some last drop of dopamine out of an old familiar thing. Killing your ability to learn new things.
You're just wasting your time.

>>713243743
I will never get over the fact that him and bud spencer always demanded real food for eating scenes, and usually ate it all.

What's a better automation game?

>>713244214
>There are no games worth playing thousands of hours
I pity zoomerfags like you who have to swing from slop to slop or else they get reminded of how meaningless their pitiful lives are.

>>713244214
go back to sucking dicks on reddit

Such reckless and shitty bait. Is this what hides within the heart of men?

>>713243317 (OP)
you can quite literally download any version of the game and play it with the pre space age mods working

>>713244214
Let me guess, you use the term "content"

>>713244271
it used to be the only good one now there are none

>>713243317 (OP)
The community ruined the game for me.
Now I hate the game and won't shill for them anymore.

>>713244271
if you're overwhelmed by factorio then oddsparks is a nice factorio lite
i've been having fun

>>713244214
>There are no games worth playing thousands of hours.
>Trying to squeeze out some last drop of dopamine out of an old familiar thing.
LOL! LMAO even!

https://youtu.be/IoOJ3zQl21Q

>>713244435
Why does every automation game except Factorio have this fucking reddit "uwu cutesy cosy" bullshit non-style?
Have some fucking balls like Factorio, make it an industrial hellscape of steam, smog and pipes

>>713244214
Just because you're bored and scatter brained doesn't mean I am.

>>713244507
>Why does every automation game except Factorio have this fucking reddit "uwu cutesy cosy" bullshit non-style
name 10

>>713244435
bruh gtfo with this toddlershit

I never reply to a frogposter. Even if we have a nice back and forth once a frog is posted I just stop replying to them and the conversation chain entirely.

>>713244557
Oddsparks
Satisfactory (has a HECKIN DOGGO and le arachnophobia mode)
That beaver game that has links to its discord and says HECKIN HYDRATE on the main screen
The Engineer (I refuse to call it by it's stupid le epically ironic mangled real name)
etc etc

>>713243317 (OP)
I thought fulgora and gleba was pretty cool. The expansion fundamentally changes up how a factory gets its resources. Where mods were just more of the same but with more complex recipes and supply chains.
One thing mods did that i was hoping the expansion would do was add more RTS elements.

>>713244652
in what way is satisfactory's style reddit "uwu cutesy cosy" bullshit non-style
and the beaver game isnt an automation game you retard, it's a colony sim. you may as well call dwarf fortress an automation game

>>713244652
>le arachnophobia mode
but enough about factorio

>>713243317 (OP)
not a problem for vanilla kings

>>713244746
>arachnophobia mode
>heckin doggos
>le heckin androgynous avatar
>le snarky but not too snarky ironic AI
>le corporation
etc etc

>>713244827
Satisfactory LITERALLY has an arachnophobia toggle
Now why some chad dev doesn't have an aranchonphilia toggle is beyond me

>>713244507
>non-style
try fortresscraft evolved for a real non-style

>>713244893
>factorio LITERALLY has an arachnophobia toggle
FTFY

>>713245046
Where's my lamiaphile toggle

>>713244697
There are some good ideas here and there but the game is just absurdly retarded. tungsten worms going in circles for no reason on a waterless lava planet, space is literally sand you must dig through, stupid imposed restrictions on space platforms and rockets that make no sense, dropping stuff from space to the surface spawns unlimited free small rockets that look like satellites, dumbest fusion plant ever made up, no endgame, no explanations for their dumb mechanics if you can put up with this garbage then you were never a factorial player because true factorio players don't.

>>713243317 (OP)
filtered

>>713243317 (OP)
>OH NO MUH MODS
fuck off retard

>>713245401
>tfw 1,145 hours so far
>tfw another thousand to go
>tfw not a true Factorio player
Still pretty cool.

>>713243743
Why is everyone looking at him like this? Is it so rare to see a man enjoy a meal?

>>713245942
Same reason everyone here looks at a dude that's having fun with video games.

>>713246407
because joy is an alien concept to terminally online husks who screech about "SOULLESS DEVS" while spending 3000 hours optimizing iron throughput. fun is the enemy.

>>713246964
Maybe that guy just likes beans.
Maybe that guy just likes Factioro.

AYO THIS GUY LIKES BEANS

I have hundreds of hours in this game and I've never had even a little fun at any moment. In fact, I'm having the complete opposite fun. I'm investing more time into Factorio out of sheer spite and hate than I've put into learning anything in my life. Fuck.

>>713248127
Quintessential /v/ post

>>713248127
Pretty sure that's all twitter is.

>>713244507
because its easier
factorios graphics are extremely high quality

>>713244271
I wouldn't say it's better but I like the general theme better than Factorio
Factory town, basically you create a city and try to get their happiness as high as possible by supplying them with goods.
I like the nature and conservation themes, better than polluting the world.

>>713244214
>new
>new
>new
Seeking novelty above all else is how you kill your intellect.
Intellect is for depth.

>>713244214
https://youtu.be/Tp0C9dth-Iw?si=ThO8nP9-YY-pTQIX

what is even the point of bugs, they become a complete non-issue if you wall off choke points

>>713244507
Anything that isn't overly bright and fluffy is considered "edgy" nowadays by these maturity-tryhards

>>713245401
It's what happens when you hire some furfag modder.

>>713244214
I'm sorry my generation raised you wrong, or basically didn't raise you at all

>>713244214
You are objectively right. Several hundred for a game like Factorio, sure. But not a single game ever made has enough variety for thousands of hours unless it gets updates every couple of weeks.

>>713245942
Haven't seen the movie but I presume he walked in with a lot more money then the usual customers have and bought himself what is to them an extravagant meal. Made me think of the chapter in The Gunslinger where Roland rolls into Tull and goes to a saloon and orders a ton of food and pays with a gold coin and doesn't expect any change because it's probably more money than the lady behind the bar had seen in her life.

>>713244271
Satisfactory. 3d is ALWAYS better than 2d.

>>713249001
>They stop being a problem when you solve it
are you stupid?

>>713243317 (OP)
sucks

I put almost 300 hours into Factorio after Space Age released and I ran out of drive once I started launching rockets and building the space platform. I don't know how many time I tore down my base and rebuilt it to optimize and streamline and make tileable blueprints and refuck train stations to get them to work and tear down stuff around mining nodes and then have to rebuild a new mining station at new territory I had to secure and then make a new rail line that ran through there and get absolutely staggered by how much resources it took to make space platform tiles and having to figure out how to fully make that shit self sufficient I just couldn't. I really wanted to but the most I even saw of the fucking DLC I paid for was making backup saves to crash and burn on Gleba and Fulgora just so I could at least see the goddamn planets before I let the burnout win and then play something else.

>>713245027
fortresscraft evolved was great for about 300-400 hours but damn that expansion required a lot of autism and dedication to beat

>>713243317 (OP)
I'll be real with you fags, unmodded vanilla Factorio was just a playground for autistic children that can be speedrun in 5-6 hrs by anyone who beat the game once. Like sure you could do a couple fun gimmicks with it for shits and giggles but playing Factorio beyond that is just dull.
Space age is what made it good by adding real decision making and the ability to do things your way with all the new tools it gives. You don't have to follow the checklist, solve promlems in a way YOU like and the game becomes fun.

>>713244507
Shapez 2

>>713250758
>solution is to build a few walls and flamers, here is a billion other military techs that are completely pointless

>>713250873
congrats, now you know how a nonautist feels playing vanilla factorio

what broke me about space age was higher qualities being locked. that is such horseshit. i wanted the option to stay on nauvis/fulgora until i had a swathe of legendary items. and you can't even GET legendary items until you're thinking about doing shattered planet. they want me dunking a hundred hours before i can even begin to try and see a product with an orange designation.

that was horseshit. pure horseshit. awful decision along with making wide spaceships less efficient.

>>713244746
timberborn is getting automation, guaranteed. the game is coded in such a way that adding automatic means of moving stuff about is trivial to add. some suspect it's being saved for a third race of beaver

>>713250587
And what about mods?

>>713250591
>Haven't seen the movie but I presume...
the world would be a better place if the ability to communicate with others was stripped from you permanently

>>713249001
they're purpose is to create a pressure to ensure your base is constantly functioning lest you get overrun.

>>713243317 (OP)
>2.0 broke almost all mods
Just play 1.1?
Why are you guys always retarded and complain about nothing burgers?

>>713255647
>along with making wide spaceships less efficient.
Is this really a problem for some people? I'm not defending the decision, I just don't understand the complaint. I've seen people build absolutely gigantic space platforms and have no problems running with them. Sure it might not be optimal, but if you have some JIT delivery mechanics going on, that's just bad design on your part.
So what are people doing that need so efficient space platforms? Drag racing or some shit?

>>713255989
because i didn't get a plate or fork or knife and i don't know where the fuck i'm supposed to eat it

>>713255957
basically this. just like a lot of things in factorio, their function is to guide the player towards good practices. for example green science teaches you to automate your inserters and belts.

>>713256121
if it's so inconsequential why even bother implementing it in the first place? i just hate how much space platforms feel like they are limited and constrained such that everyone winds up building something functionally similar.
i don't like knowing i have the same rough function as someone else but their shit works quicker because they made it a giant pillar instead of a triangle

>>713255647
Yeah I agree, no one wants to redo their whole base to both produce and be comprised of rares, only to then have to do it all over again for Epic and again for Legendary.

>>713252801
The liking or disliking of base is what defines true autism. Space added lots of variety but it added an actual endgame objective that required several bases that were very optimized. You were encouraged to make shit good, you could do it in whatever way you wanted though.
But vanilla had not much beyond the launch which was real easy, so what people found fun in it wasn't beating it but the desire to simply be better. To just get your production levels to insanely high vales and terraform the whole planet for no other reason then you can. Liking space age is feeling good about beating a long game in the way you wanted, base game enjoyment is just watching numbers go brrrr. I truly envy the base game enjoyers

>>713245942
They're bounty hunters observing at a random, dirty, ragged, famished man wolf down a whole pan of beans

>>713256243
I don't know why they did it, but I still don't get the problem people are having with it.
>i don't like knowing i have the same rough function as someone else but their shit works quicker
It's not a competition. As long as your platform is fast enough for your needs, there's really no problem. If it's not, just make another one like you do with everything else in the game.
That being said, it's still a weird decision they made.

>>713249001
set the pollution required to attack to 10%, see what happens

>>713256247
it makes no sense to me. why lock that shit so far back that many will never see it? people should have the option of landing on gleba with a swathe of normal shit or a handful of top-tier stuff. instead they HAVE to land there first to get halfway to being able to make top tier stuff.

auuugh it makes me so mad i 100% will be looking for a mod to fix that if i ever try to play it again

>>713256614
my exact fucking problem is that it inhibits me AND i cannot conjure up any reason why it would be this way. you might be comfortable being surrounded by the terrible decisions of others but as a 33 year old father of two, my patience for that shit is not what it used to be.

>>713256645
Because producing any large amount of rarity is late game shit for "mega basing"?
Until you hit aquilo there is no need to produce much if any, maybe some platform modules or a power armor but that's it.

>>713255919
Close your eyes and plug your ears gayboy.

>>713256785
ah yes.
factorio.
the game where historically you are blocked from doing something if you don't 'need' to be doing it.
known for being a rigid, linear game.

oh hold on now that doesn't sound right at all

>>713256885
haven't closed my eyes and plugged my ears yet but i presume that your mom would take the opportunity to sniff my taint

>>713243317 (OP)
satisfactory is better in every way

>>713256785
>i've decided that high rarity is only useful in endgame projecta and factorio is a game that only gives you what you currently 'need' with no options
okay well we're discussing reality in this thread and not whatever the fuck it is you have going on

>>713257112
Why exactly?

>>713257112
is 'every way' the name you gave opposite land?

>>713256924
>the game where historically you are blocked from doing something if you don't 'need' to be doing it.
Damn, I didn't realise you manage to put up nuclear before researching automation.

>>713244214

>>713257112
retard zoomers are here

>>713244214
how many hours have you spend posting on 4chan do you think?

>>713257356
damn i didn't know that you 'needed' nuclear when you research it. for some reason my game is glitched and i can run on solar+accumulators right til the end.
i guess i should stop posting because i am playing a broken copy of the game where i can win without building a single assembler 3 that i 'needed' once i had them available.

fuck off, you dumbass. you're fighting for rigidity and less options.

>>713257636
delete this

>>713250630
>oops! looks like you have reached the maximum object count supported by unreal engine! time to crash your game :)
>next time plan your base in a different way so the on-screen objects are reduced hehe time to start a new save
lol no

>>713250630
>still can't do anything with terrain
Call me when i can level mountains drain seas and pave bare crust with concrete.

>>713243317 (OP)
Spage sucks yeah but vanilla is still great + countless mods

>>713257698
Yeah and neither do you need rarity!

>>713243317 (OP)
ITT: OP got filtered by gleba and is still butthurt about it

>>713243317 (OP)
just ignore qu*lity and space age is gr8

But why not gate planet specific landfill after something that guarantees an adequate supply chain of that planet's being established, like lava landfill needing 2k orange science instead of needing to practically complete the game to produce omnilandfill to actually industrialize the surfaces instead of being subject to terrain gen. Wasnt I supposed to be the invasive species here?
Also where are the quality lamps you cowards, I shouldnt have to mod the game for a big light

>>713258013
>time to crash your game :)
Doesn't happen.
>>713258061
>call me when i no longer have to think and i can make the world as featureless as my brain
Kill yourself

>>713244271
Shapez2

>>713244829
This, some guys can't even play solitaire without mods

>>713244214
wait, im wasting my game by playing times?

>>713244435
oh yeah, if you can get past the mayor who is a black woman in a wooden wheelchair carrying a lgbt flag i couldnt

>>713250587
What if I come back to it every year or two for another playthrough?

>>713243317 (OP)
>no, what are you doing, STOP RIGHT NOW, you can't place a chest on the space platform or walk on it with magnetic boots(like on belts)
>what is that? a foundry that pours molten metal to cast it? yeah no, that's completely fine

space age is full of retarded decisions that were made only to annoy you or because the devs felt like being annoying faggots
the fat faggot kovarex and the furry faggot ahengel or whatever ruined the game

>>713256752
>>713256614
>>713256243
>>713256121
>platformd width not amount of platforms used matters for speed in space because uhhhhh the fucking space has drag (and also gravity pulling you to planets if you run out of fuel)
what horseshit

>>713243317 (OP)
Say it with me
FILTERED

>>713243317 (OP)
>2.0 broke mods
2.0 broke literally no mods as the DLC acts as a mod itself, so if you want to continue playing vanilla with incompatible mods then you just disable the DLC

0/10 you are a retard

>>713243743
how deep is that fucking cup? It looked like he dumped way more liquid in there than it could hold.

>>713244271
Maybe not better but I like Dyson sphere project. It's the space aspect of factorio done right.
>Inb4 Chinese developer
I stand by it

The real problem was making systems catering to autists mandatory for progression. Can't into fluid? A small facility BP is enough to get you to a rocket launch. Can't into trains? Just tile BPs or make a single loop 2-header who cares just do it your own way. Can't into circuits? BP someone else's or better yet just don't use them at all you still get to launch a rocket.


Now you have to fuck with fluids, you have to fuck with trains on multiple biomes, you have to fuck with circuits since you're multi-mapping, you need to automate your stations etc etc etc.

Fuck man, I just wanted to vibe, I am not on the spectrum.

>>713244271
captain of industry

>>713266189
The real problem is they're actually asking you to play the game instead of copying someone elses solution? What?

>>713266247
Fucking nigger kill yourself

>>713266189
>Now you have to fuck with fluids,
not much more than you used to
> you have to fuck with trains on multiple biomes
what?
elevated trains are not that much more complex
and fulgora can be coverd with double headed direct ones
>you have to fuck with circuits since you're multi-mapping
you do not have to touch circuits in spage
>you need to automate your stations
automate your train stations?
as in something you don't need to do?

I hate to defend space age but your criticisms have been pulled out of your ass

>>713266337
Try an easier game

>>713266189
>noooo you have to actually play the game and solve logistical problems!!!
Factorio isn't for you

>>713266189

>>713266189
>I just wanted to vibe
Satisfactory is right up your alley then.
>No time-limit, just go out and figure out how shit works
>The only real annoyance you'll have early on is biofuel generators, but you can solve that with taking some time to gather a few thousand leaves and compressing them down (which can also be partially automated)
>Then you unlock Coal, fiddle with that for a while, and now you have infinite power and thus truly infinite time to vibe slowly solving things at your own pace

>>713245595
checked

>>713250630
>3D is always better than 2D
Kill yourself zoomer retard

>>713243317 (OP)
>2.0 killed all my gorillion-ingredient recipes mods
if you want a challenge, play roody2d. you have to design your own miners instead of just having them pop out of assemblers

>>713267280
what the hell am I looking at?

>>713243317 (OP)
Space Age 2.0 is fine and I haven't had any issues. Go into your modlist -> deselect Space Age 2.0 if you have trouble. It is THAT easy to rollback onto earlier Factorio builds, and I do this frequently as I test mods.

>>713267603
If I am reading the image right, it appears to be a drill, which digs to the right, gathering minerals and sending them tot he left.
Everything in the middle is the mechanics of the drill itself.
The actual digging part is the wall of machines on the far right.

>>713266019
the visual spectacle of Dyson Sphere Program is something to witness
we built ours large enough that a major production planet was JUST inside the sphere. it was scary seeing the first chunks fly past, and then crazy seeing space slowly get covered up

sphere not having collision made it kinda lame though, if we needed to leave space for stuff to get in and out it would have had access ports

haven't played since they added enemies really. heard they made space platforms

Only have one issue with space age... give me my FUCKING cliff explosives back for fucks sakes. Create a new tier for Vulcanus if you want "unique outpost designs" that fucking badly.

>>713267884
Conceptually, a Dyson Sphere made up of individual satellite bots wouldn't do much to inhibit stuff passing through.
They'd just shift out of the way a bit and let stuff in/out.
Obviously DSP doesn't do that though.

>>713267863
I can tell it's a drill drilling to the right but I was more curious about the stuff in the middle

after watching the trailer on steam I'm also confused

>>713244389
Please delete this since it goes against the narrative.

>>713268069
I agree.
It's like the oil ocean on Fulgora you can't build rails over until you have a specific Research.
Just do the same with Vulcanus, something like:
>Reinforced Cliff Explosives

>>713244271
I preferred Satisfactory to be honest, the extra dimension and higher emphasis on exploration adds a lot to the game in a way that Factorio wasn't able to match for me. Doing shit like building transport hubs for hypertube cannons, making terrain crossing infrastructure for automating things like oil and aluminum, and being able to split up logistics and processing across multiple layers of a complex is nice.

>>713248370
>I like the nature and conservation themes, better than polluting the world.
i wish you could recultivate the planet in factorio after you destroy it and make it like gensyoko.

>>713250873
My base had like 3 copper and iron patches before I went to space. What the fuck were you doing for those 300 hours?

>>713250873
300 hours? to barely get into space?
are you stupid?

>>713256785
Lol. High quality buildings are good at any stage in the game. They can change 12 buildings into one with 4x the output when you factor in beacons and modules. I had everything at rare quality when I went to Aquilo and barely needed ice Foundation.

>>713243317 (OP)
someone explain to me why the space shit is bad?

>>713256121
It's a design constraint with no purpose. It's like if nuclear only had a neighbor bonus on the top and bottom instead of all sides. Technically it would work but every single build looks the same unless you want a massive decrease in efficency.

>>713269541
it's not

>>713269745
then why do some hate it? Does it add something that ruins the game?

>>713265561
who are you quoting?

>>713260880
Object limit is an unreal engine issue and has been mentioned literally dozens of times by the devs. It's just that the typical player never gets anywhere close to that limit so they wrote it off as an issue. Unless a new version of UE fixed it then it's probably still there.

>>713243317 (OP)
>a thriving community
Nah, we didn't even have enough to form a general on >>>/vg/. We had to share a spot in /egg/ for 8 years.

>>713269854
autistic people don't like change

>>713268490
That one research is what led me to never do fulgora first ever again. Vulcanus is just too useful of a planet and no other planet tech comes close.

>>713269541
instead of being fun and engaging it's boring and annoying

>>713269979
Change is bad and should always be resisted.

>>713269854
yes, the space update changed when you get certain research, and it has some questionable design choices.
we can only hope they alter things based on feedback

>>713270259
is that why you're still shitting in diapers?

>>713270259
Change is a fundamental fact of life which is neither good nor bad. It simply is.

>>713269854
it's 93% positive on steam. you're just listening to subhuman contrarians on /v/ who get mad at literally everything

>>713270338
>shit in a diaper
>the shit content of the room has now changed

>shit in a toilet and flush it
>no change to the amount of shit that's around

you're just an amateur trying to insult people so you don't feel as dumb as you are

>>713269541
Most people love it. This is just one guy on /v/ sperging out.

>>713270338
Change =/= progress. Shitting on the floor is a change from shitting in the diaper. And someone who's learned to shit in the toilet is not improving anything by changing to shitting in the kitchen seat

>>713268441
it also is a conveyor belt factory, laying out a conveyor belt as it goes to deliver the mined materials

>>713270726
Kitchen sink*

>>713268538
>exploration
There's nothing to find. I don't count the 600th mercer sphere that you find with scanner exploration either.
I don't know why the fuck they didn't hide actual unique buildings for you to take advantage of. Maybe a previous pioneers fabricator that would accept iron but spit out modular frames or some shit. Little logistical boosts where you could pay extra power for the benefit of not having to set up an entire factory for xyz item.
Have dozens of these things scattered across the map which would encourage you to build a train network to make use of all of them.

>>713258348
im
i escaped but got too exhausted after that

>>713244271
Mindustry

>>713243317 (OP)
>It used to be the best automation game
It still is but it used to be too
Check out Shapez 2 if you haven't had a chance to yet. It focuses more on blueprint design.

>>713270781
I see it
and the stuff in the middle is logic responsible for moving the vehicle and making belts and then laying them?

that's cool

>>713269541
It's not bad but it could be better. I wanted platforms to be able to dock with stations above the planet. Only 1 cargo pad per planet is lame too. Luckily there's mods for this.

>>713245942
He just ate a full loaf of bread and enough beans for 8 men. The table with 3 guys, 1 is captured, the other 2 are his captors. The guy eating is an outsider, and the ones at the table suspect he might have a bounty.

>>713250591
This is wrong. It's the opposite. Everyone ate the same food, it was literal slop. He ended up not paying on his way out.

>>713243743
That looks delicious, what is it? Chili beans?

>>713266189
>>713266337
>play puzzle game
>look up solution online
>game ruined
good job retard

>>713266337
someones mighty defensive about what is essentially playing someone elses savegame

>>713270824
The game does this through it's resource nodes though, certain areas have different spreads of resources designed around automating certain components, like the eastern islands having all of the resources you'd need for automating plastic and rubber, the central canyon having spots for coal and quartz collecting, and the lake being built around automating high-end fuels. You could cart the raw materials back to you main base, of course, but it's infinitely easier to just automate the components on-site and cart the result back home on trains.

>>713243317 (OP)
>lazy nigger modders are too lazy and completely lack creativity to take advantage of new additions to the game
>this is somehow the game's fault
Lazy retards who can't fathom actually modding something for the first time in years need to get off their ass and start working. Simple as.

>>713268463

>>713274489
post (you)r mod then

>mfw not autistic enough to waste time on autism games such as Factorio

>>713243317 (OP)
Did they ever add an in-game clock? Even through mods? That was my biggest problem when playing fullscreen. It was too easy to lose track of time

>>713275781
Same. Playing games takes way too much time and takes away from my daily shitposting quota.

>>713243743
imagine the farts

>>713275781
>not autistic enough
if you're posting here then you're autistic enough to do anything.