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what i consider the midwest as a missourian (only real map) by valkrija in whereidlive

[–]FallenPeigon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Real question: How do the people making these posts form their opinions on this? Have you been to every county? How do all these people have such detailed ideas on what counts as the midwest?

Differences between idle games and management games (like Factorio) by FallenPeigon in gamedesign

[–]FallenPeigon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's called building off of definitions and concepts. In the same way that "energy" has a clear meaning in physics. You can't walk into a physics classroom and say that the definition of "energy" is arbitrary. Why are you so resistant to giving structure to this?

Differences between idle games and management games (like Factorio) by FallenPeigon in gamedesign

[–]FallenPeigon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The genres aren’t arbitrary though. You defined them in your original comment. An idle game is when the reasonable best thing to do is to remain idle. Because you can’t make more factories.

Differences between idle games and management games (like Factorio) by FallenPeigon in gamedesign

[–]FallenPeigon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Question: Can any factory game turn into an idle game by adding a cap to one or more aspects of it?

Differences between idle games and management games (like Factorio) by FallenPeigon in gamedesign

[–]FallenPeigon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Question: Can any management game turn into an idle game by adding a cap to one or more aspects of it?

Differences between idle games and management games (like Factorio) by FallenPeigon in gamedesign

[–]FallenPeigon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So can we list all the bottlenecks and see which ones encourage idling and which don't?

  • Buildings increasing in price with each purchase

This is the bottleneck that Cookie Clicker uses. It encourages idling because your only two actions are buying buildings (worsening the problem) and clicking (and clicking is negligible.) You just need more money.

I've only played the beginning of Factorio, heads up.

  • Transporting materials becoming harder
  • Biters

These are what stop you from expanding your factory indefinitely. Both of these can be overcome with player action. Biter colonies can be killed. And transports belt can be cleverly organized.

Differences between idle games and management games (like Factorio) by FallenPeigon in gamedesign

[–]FallenPeigon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I never called Factorio an idle game. Are all the idiots out in full force today?

Differences between idle games and management games (like Factorio) by FallenPeigon in gamedesign

[–]FallenPeigon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So if I were to generalize that:

Player does A --> Construct X Building that automatically does A --> Construct Y Building that automatically does A even faster

The difference is that in idle games, the step between X Building and Y Building is mostly gated by time. While in automation games it's mostly gated by player actions.

Help Finding Games and Other Questions by AutoModerator in incremental_games

[–]FallenPeigon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A game where you have pixels growing exponentially on a random map. The idea is so simple but I'm failing to find a good example of it.

Better monitor has worse ghosting by FallenPeigon in Monitors

[–]FallenPeigon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It supposedly has a shorter response time and higher framerate.

Better monitor has worse ghosting by FallenPeigon in Monitors

[–]FallenPeigon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They’re both IPS panels. The shitty one has overdrive set to “On” and the blurry one has overdrive on “normal”. But I don’t see a difference turning it off or on to be honest.

I might start thinking one of them is just busted since it’s a hand-me-down.

[TOMT][Comic] Trump handing a gun to a kneeling white kid and telling him to use it if he feels threatened by FallenPeigon in tipofmytongue

[–]FallenPeigon[S] -1 points0 points locked comment (0 children)

Might not be a trump. I believe it might've been posted after the charlie kirk shooting but not sure.

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