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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

A planned economy created by factorio players is as genius as it is frightening

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (3 children)

“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.”

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Hey there it's Josh from Let's Game It Out."

[–] stephan262@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

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

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Guess I need to finally play Factorio.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago

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".

[–] Prime@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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!"