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[Dariush]

Where instead of, for example. making a house from gold you have to cut down some trees, chop them into boards, make some supports, find some material for the roof and know enough architecture for it all not to fall on your head. Any genre welcomem though multiplayer is much preferable. Games I already know about:
Survival sims:
- Haven and Hearth;
- Wurm online;
- Stranded 2;
Economic simulators:
- Economies of Scale;
- Virtonomics;
- SimRepublic;
Other:
- SpaceChem;

[ndkid]

Capitalism and Capitalism 2 were obvious inspirations for EoS; they definitely have multi-tier production chains, and a greater emphasis on vertical monopolies than EoS.

[hemmingjay]

Free Enterprise was a business/factory sim with chains of production. You could buy or manufacture base elements of more complex products and even automate much of it by using conveyor belts and bins, etc.

Old game but still plays brilliantly.

[Jiharo]

X-series by Egosoft(thread). Spacesims where most of the fun for a lot of players is to build complicated closed production system.

Widelands, open-source Settlers clone. Don't really know how complicated it is, though.

[RedKing]

Shores of Hazeron. You can start with nothing but rocks, wood and animal carcasses and work your way up to building spaceships.

[nenjin]

Anno [Time]. Pretty much pick your flavor. I don't think it has DF-long production chains, but there is a ton of raw material --> finished good --> profit mechanics in it.

[RedKing]

Shores of Hazeron. You can start with nothing but rocks, wood and animal carcasses and work your way up to building spaceships.

how do you get that to work? when I play it, it goes very laggy, then crashes.

Oh it does for me too. I'm just saying that *in theory* you can do this. People have done it. It's just not worth the damn pain to do it, because the moment your painstakingly-achieved fledgling space program ascends to the heavens...some long-established clan will blow you out of space and incinerate your entire planet for the lulz.

[Dariush]

Capitalism and Capitalism 2 were obvious inspirations for EoS; they definitely have multi-tier production chains, and a greater emphasis on vertical monopolies than EoS.

Noted, will check out.

Free Enterprise was a business/factory sim with chains of production. You could buy or manufacture base elements of more complex products and even automate much of it by using conveyor belts and bins, etc.

Old game but still plays brilliantly.

Downloaded it, already broke my mind.

X-series by Egosoft(thread). Spacesims where most of the fun for a lot of players is to build complicated closed production system.

Wait what? I thoight X- was an RTS. o_0

Widelands, open-source Settlers clone. Don't really know how complicated it is, though.

If it's a Settlers clone, I doubt it'll satisfy my needs, but I'll check it out anyway.

Shores of Hazeron. You can start with nothing but rocks, wood and animal carcasses and work your way up to building spaceships.

Too primitive and simplified. Do not want.

Anno [Time]. Pretty much pick your flavor. I don't think it has DF-long production chains, but there is a ton of raw material --> finished good --> profit mechanics in it.

Played it before. Kinda simplified, but better than nothing.

Thanks for the suggestions, I'm still taking more.

[Trapezohedron]

X-series by Egosoft(thread). Spacesims where most of the fun for a lot of players is to build complicated closed production system.

Oh yes. In X3, to build a 1MJ shield fab without getting outside resources, you'd need to purchase a solar plant, crystal plant, food farms, an ore mine (needs asteroid), silicon mines (also needs asteroid), and the list goes on... Then you'd need to connect them with complex construction kits. If you don't know what you're doing, you'd probably pay more to get it running properly.