Anyone playing ...Factorio?

[JasonPratt]

FortCraft is not nearly as "creative" as Minecraft. It's more adult in that sense, rather like 7 Days to Die is a more adult Minecraft taken in a completely different direction of "adult". Fortresscraft Evolved goes for the technical design complexities and the tower defense, even though it looks more like Minecraft; 7DtD goes for the survival vs. zombies, and looks more like a nice first-person shooter.

You won't be making a scale model of the Enterprise in Fortcraft, and neither will you be holing up in a literal hole while things of the undead howl outside trying to get in. I'm not sure in the current build that anything does attack your player in FortCraft, but I haven't gotten far in it either.

That's not to say there isn't combat -- there's a ton of it -- but it's aimed at resource raiders and waves trying to get to your central construction unit. Meanwhile, your end game is to build a giant satellite laser to wipe out the four main hives on your planetoid.

For a somewhat less technical survival sci-fi game, you might consider Empyrion (which currently doesn't have an endgame per se). I just finished an AAR for it in the Digital AAR section (also still in my link for now). It isn't even remotely as harrowing as 7DtD, but it "looks" better than FortCraft and doesn't require the same kind of factory-design skilz.

I'll be starting a FortCraft AAR eventually, once I play around with it enough to gain some understanding of what I'm doing. In fact, I've set up the Empy AAR so that it'll segue into FortCraft as a sequel!  :D

[Huw the Poo]

why you little...........

...shit?

[undercovergeek]

i think whippersnapper is the customary term

[bob48]

Quite; but Huw's version has a certain...snappy zing to it.......

[undercovergeek]

grumpy old fart

curmudgeon you might say

[bob48]

I would say it if I could, but I'd have to put my dentures in first.

[Father Ted]

Sweet...A little corner of the forum that is forever England.

[Huw the Poo]

England.

Ahem!

[bob48]

Sweet...A little corner of the forum that is forever England.

Certainly brought a tear to my eye.

[Father Ted]

England.

Ahem!

Sorry Huw -  I'd realised that I'd inflame nationalistic sensibilities with that post, but the quote didn't really work any other way.

[Huw the Poo]

At least my objection was suitably muted in typical British fashion.  Although I may have also tutted (after checking nobody was in earshot).

In other news, I bought Factorio anyway.  It looked ace, and indeed it does seem to be ace after a quick 1.3 hours with it.  Lots and lots of lovely layers of complexity and opportunities to demonstrate my near-complete lack of imagination.  Bob, Geek - I command you both to buy it and play with me!

[jomni]

Watching that video was disturbing. 
"Natural Environment Destruction Simulator".
Mankind is really the destroyer of worlds.

You are alone in an unknown planet.  You create machines to sustain your life.  But you end up being greedy and create a factory.  Who will buy your goods?
You export them to another planet?  Do you have to make a space ship first?  So you have the whole planet for yourself to exploit and kill.

I'm rooting for the creatures who would like to kill you.

[JasonPratt]

Thus begins the not-Factorio AAR.

[Huw the Poo]

I've put 3.4 hours into Factorio now.  I made my usual mistake of just doing the first few bits of tutorial and have now decided I'm obviously an expert, so into the sandbox I went!

I've been building some horribly inefficient machines.  I wanted my steam machine to be self-powering but it's miles away from the nearest coal deposit, so I built a massive conveyor belt between the two, with electric lines running the same length.  So now I have a conveyor belt about five miles long which is completely loaded with coal as the boilers don't use much!

Got my lab going and put a couple of radars up, so I'm slowly scanning the surrounding area.  I also have an automated fabricator thingy which is churning out science packs to use in the lab.

Then just before I stopped playing I thought it would be a good idea to investigate the big red blob my radars detected.  Big mistake!

Really good game.  Looking at the research screen it seems there's a lot to discover, and I'm looking forward to it.

[JasonPratt]

I'll be super curious to read reports from Factorio players to compare notes on how the different games go about their business.  O:-)