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It's been a month since the Factorio DLC dropped. Giga !neurodivergents and !g*mers, how far have you gotten?

The most neurodivergent game ever since Dwarf Fortress dropped a new DLC to go into space and I must know how your factories are going.

I started a new save file. Got to Vulcanus, found it terrifically easy to set up huge chip production, I export most of my shit from there.

Went to Fulgora next. Figuring out how to fot a train station on the tiny scrap islands woth millions of scrap was fun. Despite Gleba existing I found Fulgora the most annoying, trying to manage the output of the scrap frustrating. My filter system is constantly backing up with gears and ice cubes and I wish there was a chest that would just delete items put into it. Needed the lightning turrets from here to kill the medium worms on Vulcanus.

I finally re-arranged my space platform to have enough furnaces to have max ammo all the time, making flying between planets way safer. I also was forced to use circuits and I begrudgingly enjoy it.

Got to Gleba recently. Several key components of this planet are not communicated well, like how to add new farmable plots or which spots are farmable in the first place. Using bots for everything and never using a belt, so nothing backs up, was key. The most fun part of this planet is figuring out how to bleed off your excess production of pentagon eggs into your science production while still keeping the pentapod duplicators infinitely stocked.

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Much harder barrier to entry. DF and Factorio are borderline normie tier. Even hardcore neurodivergents don't know about or want to play Elona/Elin. Maybe my point of view is just regarded but I think this also needs to be r-slurred.

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Barrier to entry is worth considering. DF's took a nosedive, but I guess most people are literally incapable of understanding that c means cat. Elona/Elin have graphics upfront, but they suffer from obscurity+japanese weirdness (pet girl?). Factorio definitely has a lower barrier to entry, and yet I can't shake the feeling that its still a lamp to which neurodivergents are drawn.

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Factorio is mega normie shit in terms of factory games lol

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Unless we're including minecraft and factorio mods under that umbrella, it's the most neurodivergent one out there.

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Minecraft mods

Yeah GT:NH is way more neurodivergent than Factorio

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GT:NH is a mod pack not a mod and it's mostly just LONG.

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Gregtech in general is a test of endurance, which is pretty :marseyautism:.

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Nah only GregTech NH, GregTech 6 is pretty fast after early game. GTNH is internationally grindy, whereas regular GT is just complex but you can get through it fast if you know your stuff.

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GregTech 6

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SpaceChem

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Not really a factory game. Sure, in hindsight you can see a lot of the DNA there, but the Zachtronics games are their own thing.

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It's just about textbook factory game, production processes requiring increasingly complex automation through an increase in components and other parameters. It's a puzzle factory game, which most factory games, spacechem just doesn't have procedural generation.

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automation games are distinct from puzzle games. The growth of the factory is an essential part of Factorio, and other factory building games. I'd honestly say Factorio has more in common with minecraft than it does with spacechem.

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I mean yeah it's based on a Minecraft mod...

>through an increase in components and other parameters

Isn't this factory growth? It's even represented in SpaceChem by your factory growing on the world map

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  • DickButtKiss : i tried to play it i couldnt even get past the darn tutorial. guess im not autism after all

I think normies can get attracted to Factorio easily, but I highly doubt any but the neurodivergent will really stick with it beyond the mid game

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Even hardcore neurodivergents don't know about or want to play Elona/Elin

Have you considered that the maybe the games just suck? :marseyshrug:

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Barrier to entry is still a fairly :marseycrimsonchin: wide spectrum. I'd make the argument :marseystrawman: that dwarf :marseymanlet: fortress is on the higher end of the spectrum relative to other games :marseygamer: like rimworld ASCII is still kind of neurodivergent :marseysnappyautism:


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