• Arkthos@pawb.social
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    1 month ago

    I feel vindicated. I have the exact same feeling of factorio feeling too much like work, having to refactor everything because the requirements change is one of the more frustrating parts of software engineering imo, and the game feels tailored specifically to invoke that frustration.

    I imagine that part gets better after the first hundred hours where you basically know what’s coming. I don’t have the patience to learn the tech tree though, given that I don’t even enjoy the game.

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      1 month ago

      I’m curious how you play factorio because when I played there was very little refactoring, just adding more and more onto the assembly line.

      That being said, that genre of game is absolutely not for everyone.

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        1 month ago

        Factorio sucks for perfectionists. You have to be able to embrace the spaghetti, and not everyone can

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          1 month ago

          Yeah I’ve seen people try to balance things perfectly in factorio, but my strat is always to overproduce and let belts getting backed up balance out the throughput.