• ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The general absence of electric trains in factorio kills my immersion. Like yeah, they would make nuclear powered trains obsolete but overhead wire already makes that an insane proposition in real life.

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      9 months ago

      It’s because they don’t want to trivialize the refueling puzzle part of the game.

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      9 months ago

      I’m currently using space trains, along with the space exploration mod. The trains run on batteries, and they are blazingly fast. I easily lose track of them through my orbital rail grid.

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      9 months ago

      You play as a dumb dumb who can’t comprehend electric trains

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        9 months ago

        I like to think of it as even worse. It’s likely that the drivetrains themselves are already electric and just running on coal gas, oil, or nuclear power plants to electric like our current locomotive engines. You’re just too dumb to figure out how to wire your powergrid to them. It’s like the US cargo train situation in a nutshell.

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      9 months ago

      kills my immersion

      Bruh the game is not trying to immerse you it’s a puzzle.