Factorio: Misc
Apr. 10th, 2018 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackPipes (and mining drills) you can't run through are so annoying! Everyone said "give yourself enough space for your oil/chemical processing" and I still didn't space it out enough. It needs to be spaced enough that you can use underground pipes for everything except corners. And so the pipes don't "snap to" neighbouring pipes of other types.
For a long time there was a dichotomy between "do everything with belts" and "do everything with robots". They rejigged it so robots are still awesome, but they do construction and deliver materials and equipment to you, so you can just build stuff without worrying about running out, and use them to build large areas -- but they no longer do feeding into assemblers until you're much further through the game, and don't do high throughput as well, so there's a reason to use belts to automate all the big stuff, not just forget about them once you get bots.
There's always "something to do next", tidying up stuff, or automating the next thing, or building a bigger better version, which makes it very very addictive.
The specifics aren't very realistic, but the general feel of "this is complicated" really is.
ETA: It used to be the case you needed to raid alien monster nests to find some particular resources for "alien science". They rebalanced this in one of the big updates, which overall works a lot better: there's more intermediate tiers of research which gives various different technologies, so it's more plausible to choose what to focus on, not just get stuck on the first two for 90% of the game, then get everything all at once. But I miss that there was something you used to need to go out and find (other than more resources).
For a long time there was a dichotomy between "do everything with belts" and "do everything with robots". They rejigged it so robots are still awesome, but they do construction and deliver materials and equipment to you, so you can just build stuff without worrying about running out, and use them to build large areas -- but they no longer do feeding into assemblers until you're much further through the game, and don't do high throughput as well, so there's a reason to use belts to automate all the big stuff, not just forget about them once you get bots.
There's always "something to do next", tidying up stuff, or automating the next thing, or building a bigger better version, which makes it very very addictive.
The specifics aren't very realistic, but the general feel of "this is complicated" really is.
ETA: It used to be the case you needed to raid alien monster nests to find some particular resources for "alien science". They rebalanced this in one of the big updates, which overall works a lot better: there's more intermediate tiers of research which gives various different technologies, so it's more plausible to choose what to focus on, not just get stuck on the first two for 90% of the game, then get everything all at once. But I miss that there was something you used to need to go out and find (other than more resources).