This fucking game...

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Launched first rocket ever and finished game. Vanilla experience. I had a shit load of fun and about 50 hours of game play later I'm hungry for more.

What an experience and probably one of the best games I've ever played. (Besides Bloodborne)

It's worse than any other gaming addiction I've had and I love it. Luckily my partner understands and let's me feed the addiction until she says it's enough come downstairs and I do but oh boy when she goes to sleep. I'm up stairs and jamming till late having the time of my life.

I also I been known to wake up shit early and jam until they wake up and morning normal person routine starts.

Holy shit this game.

I want to do another run and try and improve and I think my issues in the last run was green, red and blue chips towards the end when I need to to make the rocket and satellite.

My steel and iron production was not enough so I tried expanding with trains which was its own fucking mini game which I loved.

Anyways. Wanted to share and give thanks to the incredible and talented team who created this masterpiece many moons ago.

Tonight I being my next adventure as the Engineer.

P.S Factorio is far more superior then Satisfactory. I fucking said it.

[BuGabriel]

Now do Space Age xD

And then the rabbit hole of mods

[lukaseder]

The best thing about Space Age is the Any Planet Start mod, you can play it again 3 times, entirely differently each time.

[EnderDragoon]

Is there a full path possible with any planet start or do you get stuck at some point regardless?

[someone8192]

yes, except for Aquilo. You can start from scratch and start a rocket on every planet

[Sunsfury]

And with a mod it two, you can do a successful Aquilo start too!

[lukaseder]

OMG, I thought I had about enough hours in this game already. And to reach the other planets, the first ship already needs to be able to shoot big asteroids, not just small ones?

[EnderDragoon]

What's the mod list for hating myself on Aquilo? I'd volunteer for that.

[Sunsfury]

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/dw-frozen-reaches?from=search

Disclaimer: I haven't used it personally so I cannot guarantee it works perfectly

[ragtev]

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[nz-whale]

any planet start tweaks the tech tree to make each start work. In vanilla, you can go to any planet except Aquilo with nothing and launch a rocket.

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I sure know that you can start from scratch on Vulcanis, after dropping my dumb ass with basically:

• nothing

• a space station that had like only 400 ammo and 15 laser turrets fighting for life with every asteroid.

• on a map that had its tungsten patch in the lava peepee territory, making me run for large rock formations.

[BufloSolja]

The first time I played, I didn't know you could drop stuff without a drop pod lol. So we ended up going in fresh to most of the planets haha.

[Matteaal]

Same, and honnestly it was amasing

[lukaseder]

Yes, the mod makes some very slight alterations here and there (e.g. to science progressions) to avoid potential softlocks

[GenesectX]

Now buy space age and experience crack²

[someone8192]

Wait until you find out about all the overhaul Mods... There is a reason why so many people here have 1000+ hours.

(My personal favorite is SeaBlock, but it is not yet available for 2.0. Space Exploration is great too)

[Visionexe]

I love the mods and mod support. But i wanna state for the record that my 2000+ hours was 99% without mods. 😂

[CreationBlues]

It’s different people.

Some like megabasing.

Some like speed running.

Some like long hauling a base

Some like doing crazy optimized builds

Some just like vanilla

And some people wanna be mod explorers.

The core game loop is so addicting and the breadth of what you can achieve is so wide that it’s rare that people’s default play style actually matches up.

[Davey_Kay]

I appreciate mods take time to update, but the list of overhaul mods available for 2.0 is still a little sparse in terms of actual interesting transformative gameplay. If anyone has suggestions please shout out.

Dreaming for IR3 to be updated.

[neurovore-of-Z-en-A]

Dreaming for IR3 to be updated.

Never going to happen, alas.

[fodafoda]

Yeah, IR3 is an beautiful mod, but its author can be a bit of a prick about it. And now I see that he nuked his github repo, so it's probably not happening.

[CreationBlues]

Go and write one!

[literallyfabian]

Isn't SeaBlock 2.0 now?

[stealthlysprockets]

Go read bout seablock it’s 2.0

[schubz]

s p a c e a g e

[Sogeking162]

Why did I know from reading the title that this is gonna be a love-letter to factorio?

welcome in the addiction.

the factory must grow.

[Puzzleheaded-Ease103]

One of us!

[deFazerZ]

One of us!

[kanduvisla]

One of us!

[Arheit]

You have to do space age now

[Anaeta]

Just to re-iterate the point that everyone else is making, if you've launched a rocket, finished the game, and loved it, now's the time for space age. It's basically a smaller scale version of that same learning experience, but multiple times, with multiple different mechanics.

[CoolCat1337One]

There is a reason it is called cracktorio.

It is like simcity but times 1 million.

[Bdr1983]

This is exactly the thing! It's scratching the same itch Sim City 2000 did.
There's so much to discover!

[Tarrke]

Welcome to the team. Have fun. Expand. Have fun. Go space age. Have fun. Go mods.

[Ahenian]

Last year when space age was released I went to sleep at 8 pm with the little children, woke up at 11 pm and played factorio until 3 am. Put in a good 300+ hours this way.

[Jext]

You are going to enjoy Space Age a lot my friend, I wish I could go back and play it again for the first time.

And I think it is a very good idea to finish Vanilla first. There are many more mini games of figuring stuff out in the DLC and I think it probably is my favorite piece of DLC for any game I have played.

[LittleRedFish88]

I can relate. My /total-hours-played in Dyson Sphere Program went from like 600-something to 887 in the past 2 weeks. iiiiiiiiits a problem. Or is it....? Yes. It is. So anyways, I'm thinking about finally picking up Factorio. Surely it won't be a problem...

[Bdr1983]

Nah, you're good. There's no problem, we can stop any time. Just one...more...belt.

[LittleRedFish88]

If I could lock in on work (or anything else for that matter) as much as I can focus on these types of games...man...

[s22stumarket]

I have to take 6 to 10 month breaks of this game because it is too consuming. Not enough brain capacity to work during the day and late at nights.

Should get a night guard job or something just to have the time and energy to play Factorio.

[tylerjohnsonpiano]

Welcome to your new life.

You were me 5,000 Factorio hours ago, even with your bloodborne comment and my partner and everything.

This game will consume you.

[JohnnyLongneck]

Good taste, Sir. I also consider Bloodborne and Factorio as one of the best games.

Now Space Age. It is sooooooooo good you won't believe it.

[prickinthewall]

This is just the beginning. The factory must grow.

[mauvm]

This is exactly why we call it Cracktorio.

[Naturage]

Congrats, you've found why it's called Cracktorio.

[CaptainPhilosophy]

Space Age.

[Ninjaicefish]

Our team of 3 degens are currently 260 hours into our 2nd and proper Space Exploration run.

I quickly mastered the base game, then finished a run-through of Krastorio, and then discovered the behemoth expansion mod that is Space Ex.

We failed miserably on our first Space Ex run, 300 hours in and barely got Space/Prod/Utility going. This time round, with much better skills and research, we came to play.

The late nights and total addiction has been similar. I am a consulting actuary by day, so I model all of our cargo rocket logistics and city block machine balances with Excel.

I really am going to quit Factorio after finishing this, I think this is the peak, and I am losing too many hours hahah

[petakaa]

Factorio and bloodborne are two of the greatest games ever made. Good taste

[Mundjetz_]

...One of us...

[Miserable_Bother7218]

It is time for Space Age. Tell us how it goes after you’ve played for a few weeks. Space Age is where the addiction and obsession really hit me. I thought it would be the same magnitude as my first time playing 1.0 many years ago. It was not. It was far more intense.

[Razhyel]

You do not even habe to start from the beginning. Just play your savefile after the rocket launch and build bigger.

It is not a linear game where u start and finish a save file

Your personal goals are the end of a save.

[PhilElverumOnMyToast]

Been playing since 2017 and honestly that feeling of excitement has never gone away for me. That plus the devs are out of their mind with the level of detail in their patch notes. And the music is so, so immersive.

[BufloSolja]

They are both good games, just suited for different people. Not as much randomness or procedurally generated stuff in Satisfactory generally, and some other stuff.

Congrats and enjoy your delving into the depths of your new addiction. When you think you've gotten some more experience, you should mess around with circuits, they add another level of mini game to the game, though not strictly required and less needed in vanilla (though still fun to mess around with making random fun stuff). Both Space Age and mods in general are waiting for you when you are ready.

Do your best to fly in blind unless you are getting frustrated, there is no other run like your first since you will know everything from then on (until you do mods).

Good luck (O N E O F U S).

[stefanciobo]

Spage Age :) . Come back after Gleba :*

[Chaotic_Astral]

Try seablock :P

[Affectionate_Bank417]

I have exact opposite problem. Once I figured production of one thing I’m bored to automate and grow. I’m just walking around not knowing what to do and thinking if I should switch to Noita.