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by Manishearth
3423 days ago
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Nah, factorio is much different. It's more about building factories, and optimizing them to maximize throughput. It's more engineeringy than artsy. In minecraft my goal is to explore or make things that look cool. In factorio my goal is to make the mostest efficientest factory. I think the best part of Factorio is that usually you'll set yourself a goal. Say, getting production of something like modules set up. You'll start building the section of the factory. Partway through you'll realize you need to up production of some material it depends on. So you'll go figure out why that line isn't efficient -- sometimes it's just due to how you've structured it, but other times it's due to lack of resources. You go to connect more resources to your network; maybe by finding an ore deposit and running a train to it. Wait, no, now you have a lot of trains in the system and not enough stops for them to drop stuff off without causing jams. You redo critical areas of your train network. By which point you discover that you're being attacked on yet another front by the aliens and you go to set up defenses. Much like Civ, there's usually so much going on in Factorio that you'll always be in a "okay, let me just finish this and I'll stop" situation which never finishes. Of course, that's horrible if you have other things that you should be doing, but it makes for a really enjoyable game. |
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its rather amazing, you can even eventually end up building star trek level tech where you order items out of a computer that are stored digitally.
if you haven't tried it, check out one of the modpacks like Feed The Beast, or similar, set up a server play with a few friends.
best gaming experience I've ever had.
I programmed an in game robot with LUA to build hedge mazes, and 3d mazes
http://i.imgur.com/M6QcpKU.png
http://i.imgur.com/9VSlLxc.png
a messy factory: http://i.imgur.com/VUi07P7.png