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There are lots of stories like Last Starfighter where someone is recruited through video games for some fantastical job and some General or something is like “You have the highest score ever, only you can save us!” Always seemed pretty far fetched to me.
But if we were going to another galaxy and they wanted someone to lay out production infrastructure? I could totally see recruiting based on most playtime on steam for Satisfactory.
I'd keep getting screwed because in RL, you need to build supports before the building they support, not as an afterthought to make it look more realistic.
"Need a bridge? Zoop mode, aaaaand it's done!" Longest part of building a bridge comes from finding or fighting things on the way.
That movie gave me legit anxiety as a kid. I had this subtle fear that my high score on games at the local arcade or bowling alley would draw me into some deep shit.
A planned economy created by factorio players is as genius as it is frightening
“Pack it up, space is cancelled.”
“What, why?”
“We left you alone for a week and now every square inch of this planet is completely covered in factories. It’s unlivable. We’ll have to get the Planet Crafter guy to terraform a new planet and start over.”
"Hey there it's Josh from Let's Game It Out."
Dear god! Who sent him .
Joel from Arrowhead looks up
"Covered in factories you say? Sounds like a breeding ground for Automatons."
🎵Buh buh buh bunhh🎵
Get the Minecraft Reclamation lady to fix it
Hand over the reins of one nation each to the top players of: Factorio, EVE Online, Dwarf Fortress, HOI4, Minecraft, Kerbal Space Program, Cities Skylines, etc.
City skylines would be the best place to live, and would have a natural friendship with factorio.
It would be a bit weird making a bowl of cereal and having a freight train blast up to your house at 200mph, a robot flies out of the depot just past the dog park, skims above the pedestrian walkways at just under the speed of sound, unloads the single stack of of cereal boxes that the train is carrying and sticks it in your pantry before they both vanish just as fast. You only had a half a box of raisin bran left and you hit the resupply threshold.
Guess I need to finally play Factorio.
I would recommend it. It can take a minute your first time through to get to some of the intense optimization stuff, but a lot of it's there really early.
The dominant gameplay loop by far is "you have tools. There's a new problem to solve with those tools that's hard/tedious. Solving it means you can make tools that make the problem easier. Goto step one".
Don't forget Terraria :)
Oh God what fresh hell are you planning on putting people into‽
"Yeah you got a house! It's got a trapdoor over there as an entrance, a single chair like structure in the corner and a flat top lamp in the other one. I am particularly proud of that one because it's both cheap, provides just enough light to count and can technically be used as a flat surface!"
Don't forget to call Josh from Let's Game it Out to create forward outposts that the enemy will find first
If you want to know what could go wrong with anything you've built, just leave Josh alone with it for a few minutes.
Yeah, same here. Nothing beats building a massive industrial complex from scratch