[steveklabnik]

The above seems like a pretty usual time for Full Autonomy; I've only beaten the full game once so far, and it took 7 hours 58 minutes and 10 seconds to beat completely.

I've heard some people can do the whole thing in four hours; I'm far along in my second playthrough right now, we'll see!

[opdahl]

I actually finished my first playthrough in 3 hours and 45 minutes. Think I just got lucky with my strategy, but I guess one's focus should be one always upgrading paperclip production until you start having excess materials, and try to keep a balance so input = output as much as possible. But of course, all of this goes out the window on the last stage of the game.

[steveklabnik]

Nice! Yeah, I always found the last stage to be very counterintutive; it's unclear how all of the various things interact and what they should do.