Yeah, I don’t know how to make organized post galleries in lemmy; So I used comments in the satisfactory post to dive into details… that doesn’t jive well with cross-posting.

7 days until factorio releases, so now is a great time to warm up and finish satisfactory!

Massively different games, I think Satisfactory is more about factory painting and designing pleasing aesthetics; There are some puzzles, but mostly the puzzles are working around the UI’s clunky CAD.

One reason I like using a well defined Interface in a factory building game is it makes it super easy for divide and conquer. The vertical bus grew slowly as I added elements to the Bus, each step in the factory chain was a single production line with well defined inputs and outputs. Very manageable.

For initial production runs I only build a single machine, just get the hookups setup, only if I find the bus starving later will i expand out the line, but because its all vertical into the sky, there are no limits on expanding a production line. Honestly, I feel like I played the game on super easy mode. Add production to Bus, ohh, not going fast enough - whatever dependency is starving go to its production line and expand it a bit… That was the entirety of my planning, a very simple feedback loop

I’m in AWE of the people who make a single monolithic factory to build one component at scale! That’s a ton of planning!