[williamoforange]

I only got into circuitry myself, but I've watched skilled players go all the way through which is entertaining in of itself but not enough to overcome my initial misgivings. I can see how it would be fun from a Sim City for engineers perspective with tech debt to add a feedback to the gameplay loop.

The game feels very lonely and honestly imo quite selfish in its objectives, deplete the planet to escape using your brilliant intellect, science cost is just time*resources. This is the opposite of my experience in life where no-one can do it all alone from scratch, everything is the accumulation of shared motivation, experience and unique perspectives.

[fragmede]

It's best played with friends, imo. Setup a server, gather some like-minded friends, and build something together.

[Lapsa]

you can implement D-Gate in Factorio (needed for inventory snapshots) and make your assembly machines completely dynamic - picking up whatever recipes and resources you require (including fluids). I've reduced game through automation so far that all I do is copy paste and hook up to railway network whatever resource mining outposts