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[0x517A5D]

Is there anything besides Minecraft mods that comes even remotely close to Factorio? I can't seem to find any similar games.

Leap Day was a thing I never bothered to play.  And now it's dead.

Multiplayer freemium Spacechem-ish economic factory-placement game.

Here's our forum thread about it, with a few screenshots.

[The13thRonin]

Is there anything besides Minecraft mods that comes even remotely close to Factorio? I can't seem to find any similar games.

Leap Day was a thing I never bothered to play.  And now it's dead.

Multiplayer freemium Spacechem-ish economic factory-placement game.

Here's our forum thread about it, with a few screenshots.

Argh... Why is this not a thing anymore!?

[Empty]

Is there anything besides Minecraft mods that comes even remotely close to Factorio? I can't seem to find any similar games.

Leap Day was a thing I never bothered to play.  And now it's dead.

Multiplayer freemium Spacechem-ish economic factory-placement game.

Here's our forum thread about it, with a few screenshots.

Argh... Why is this not a thing anymore!?

Hmm. That reminds me a lot about the kairosoft games. Perhaps try some of those? They are android/iphone only though.

[The13thRonin]

Is there anything besides Minecraft mods that comes even remotely close to Factorio? I can't seem to find any similar games.

Leap Day was a thing I never bothered to play.  And now it's dead.

Multiplayer freemium Spacechem-ish economic factory-placement game.

Here's our forum thread about it, with a few screenshots.

Argh... Why is this not a thing anymore!?

Hmm. That reminds me a lot about the kairosoft games. Perhaps try some of those? They are android/iphone only though.

My noble PCmasterrace birth prevents me from playing casual flash games .

[Girlinhat]

Haha, factorio!  I remember when I played the demo back before there were payment options.  Ah, such simple times...

So now I bought the game.  Anyone up for multiplayer?  I'd particularly love to build a theme world based on far-stretching outposts and rail networks.  Things like every ore deposit has its own base.  Then science production is separate from the labs.  And then possibly even as far-flung as making iron refineries separate from copper refineries and essentially making as many individual outposts as is possible to break the chain of production up.  End up with TONS of rail networks and infrastructure.

[n9103]

I'm up, though you may want to wait until the stable .11 release, since it sounds like you're aiming for a very long playthrough.
From what I can tell, they should be releasing the last bugfix within a couple weeks.
Oh, and incase you didn't see it: The Dev map with extensive rails and more

[Girlinhat]

I've been using the experimental version, so had rails the whole time.  We could decide to begin the play when it's stable though.

[Mephansteras]

I'd be up for something like that. Not sure how much time I'd be able to devote, but it sounds fun.

[Girlinhat]

We'll have the most fun running tank platoons~  Shame there's no way to deploy and recover tanks with machinery.

[Sonlirain]

Are there any guides or wikis that describe things like how many smelters one coal mine can supply?
I never get any proportions right and have a massive buildup of resources EVERY SINGLE TIME and i can take watching an endless conveyor belf of coal/ore only so many times before i try rebuilding the system... and ending in an even worse state than before.

[werty892]

Yeah, I was just thinking about this and MP. Would be fun, especially on a decently challenging map. I find the default settings work the best for generating good maps by the way.

[Girlinhat]

Are there any guides or wikis that describe things like how many smelters one coal mine can supply?
I never get any proportions right and have a massive buildup of resources EVERY SINGLE TIME and i can take watching an endless conveyor belf of coal/ore only so many times before i try rebuilding the system... and ending in an even worse state than before.

There's essentially two ways to handle this.  The first is to use the buildup.  If you've got a backlog of resources, add more factories, and if you've got idle factories, add more mines.  The second is to essentially not use conveyor belts.  You can make an 'on demand' system using chests and inserters to avoid 'items on the ground' appearances.

I experimented with a train-based system, which only ever had ore on the ground at mines.  Trains took them to refineries, which could process everything and clear out quickly, leaving nothing on the ground.

[LoSboccacc]

Are there any guides or wikis that describe things like how many smelters one coal mine can supply?
I never get any proportions right and have a massive buildup of resources EVERY SINGLE TIME and i can take watching an endless conveyor belf of coal/ore only so many times before i try rebuilding the system... and ending in an even worse state than before.

not really because you can attach speed or energy modifier which influence overall output of a factory

everything gives you it's speed, which is a divider to the production cycle. the production cycle can be seen on the recipe when you hover on the crafting menu, even for smelting. for minerals, it is called hardness or something but works the same.

[Girlinhat]

While this is true, the rate at which furnaces use coal isn't given.  Though I suppose you could trawl the source code a bit.  There's modding options, after all.

Now that you mention it though, I might have to look into crafting speed given on different things and seeing if I can't streamline stuff!

[Aklyon]

You guys and your fancy train shenanigans. I just use robots everywhere its useful once I get them, and eventually make a train.