It feels like there is always one more little thing that you can get done before hopping off. But then that turns into 10 other little things you can do. And the next thing you know it’s the next day and the sun is coming up.
Time is an illusion. The factory must grow.
It’s an ADHD black hole, I love it
I started this morning at 8 and just realized it’s almost 3…
I found that naming my saves as what I want to do next helps me initiate a stopping point. Something like, “build gas power plant” or something.
It’s a big reason I stopped playing until 1.0 is released. Way too much of a time sink. That I thoroughly enjoy… but still… I only have so much to give.
I have to ban myself from playing for a bit also. It’s hard to play in moderation.
I’ve done two complete runs of the game such as it is so far, and at this point I’m holding off until 1.0 so I don’t burn myself out on it.
Satisfactory, oxygen not included, and rimworld all have this effect
For me Valheim and The Long Dark. It’s just one more day’s hike to get to Pleasant Valley…
Dwarf Fortress is my time-dilating drug of choice
5500 hours of Factorio and it’s glorious mods checking in
Good to know. Never play those games. I waste enough time in satisfactory already.
Its a good feeling when its done in a healthy way. I just try and get what needs doing done before i start playing lol
No joke, I have to set a timer to check in with the outside world. If I fail to set the timer, suddenly it’s Thursday and I’m famished and exhausted and hungry and my beard is three inches longer.
Must produce parts…
Let alone the time you’re thinking about and planning your factory while not playing the game.
I currently have about five projects on the go in the game. Building automation for pretty much every item that you would need to build any building, building out a nuclear waste recycling plant (precursor to building a nuclear power facility… I don’t want to irradiate my save), rebuilding a few manufacturing plants for basic components that may already be automated poorly, finishing my resource area/hub base, doing some beautification of finished plants, maxing out my biomass bins, getting more hard drives… It never stops!
Next on my list is my steel factory which has been very poorly done for a long time; then rebuilding my reinforced plate/modular frame/rotor plant. The new steel plant will hopefully also make nobelisks, and stators, then I can just grab an assembler for the final production steps of motors at the hub base where both the rotors and stators will be going into their respective bins.
I’ve been focused mostly on power, I have 12000MW of coal/fuel power right now and I’m using maybe 60% at full production; but trying to build out a nuclear recycling plant without key components being automated already is making everything a headache, so I changed my focus to the hub base which is currently being built up with all my parts storage. Once I have the vast majority of the parts automated into the new base, I’m going to go back to the nuclear build before building the final plants for the last space elevator tier.
The milestones were done pretty fast this save and I kinda miss them. Everything is unlocked in the awesome shop, so now I’m working on making all the things and scaling up.
