What kind of player are you?

[Ronin-XIII]

Was just thinking how I've met a variety of factorio players and noticed how different they play from each other.

So I'm curious what everyone's personal opinion is on how they most enjoy this. (Like treating it like a spreadsheet or non-stop fighting.)

Be as short or long as you want on your replies. :)

Ps. If you use mods what mods you prefer most.

[Fel]

I like mostly the factory side of the game but I leave the enemies, usually weakened from the default so that I can have fun raiding nests every now and then when I feel like doing that.

I like designing things so I barely use blueprints.
As a direct result I have been playing mostly with mods since quite a long time ago.

I started with Dytech, added bob's mods, then replaced dytech by angel when dytech started to die off and angel came out as a very good complement to bob and since that time I have been mostly using bob+angel as my base, with plenty of other mods on and off to spice things.

I was blown away on how completely different seablock felt even while already knowing the mods it uses outside of the seablock itself so I had most of my fun with that recently (on and off for the last year and half, definitely not on a single map all that time).

If/when I come back more heavily to factorio I intend on doing a py playthrough without bob and angel to make it somehow easier but I keep pushing it back because that mod is not something to tackle half-heartedly.

[DuckieMcduck]

I like not worrying about things so I spend a good amount of time making layouts that I feel can scale and plug into places. Only really checked the wiki after launching the first 4 rockets, and seeing how easy it is to make a latch I felt kind of dumb for using boxes with inserters as programmable memory.

Segwaying into not worrying about things, making solar farms in desert land and cracking down on every biter nest anywhere that is even remotely visible is something I like to do. Sadly the game punishes you for the later.

[Nailfoot]

Trains! I don't use mods, except for a few QoL ones (Nanobots, Waterfill). I set the game on railworld presets and then make the biters more exspansionist.

I usually also enrich the resources a bit, just to compliment the bitter settings. I keep telling myself to use Bob's mod with Angel, but after 2200 hours I still enjoy the vanilla game.

[juliejayne]

Every time the factory is different. I like to leave the cliffs, so it becomes a challenge to work around them and the water, especially with rails. Biters on definitely, but not too many. They are there to spur me on, not to annoy or obstruct me.

[Purpleganja]

I'm a kind of all around player (even if I play less than I used to because of too many games to play!).
I play mostly vanilla.
I need a threat to motivate me, so deathworld marathon as a base setting to tweak on every new game.
I try to optimise enough,
but not to ocd levels.
I eyeball a lot of ratios and I try to keep it simple when making complex things.
I try to make use of each tech in some way or another in different bases or different games. (I still have so many ways to play and mods to try too.. i must find some time for it)

[knighttemplar1960]

I like the logistics and infrastructure pasts of the game. My wife likes setting up defenses and squishing bugs. It works for us as a team game.

[Scarsick]

I'm slow as ♥♥♥♥. I overthink way too much. Start over way too much. I believe it took me 500+ hours to launch my first rocket. I don't even know how I managed to get that train in 90 minutes achievement.

[HeckinBamboozled]

I play on peaceful only with no pollution. Mostly vanilla, but I like to dabble in different mods occasionally. Stuff like Industrial Revolution and Krastorio (but not quite as overwhelming as Bobs/Angels). Tend to be pretty organized but have been trying to embrace more spaghet. I rarely, if ever, check for exact ratios and prefer to be either "close enough" or "overproduce so much it won't be a problem". I have a lot of saves that get as far as green science before I decide I want to try something else.

[DarkFaceGlow]

I’m the player that says “I’m gonna get the basics out the way, then plan the perfect, flawless looking mega-base..... 87 acres later, I still have a mess, only a mega-mess...

[MarcoPants]

My factories all are quite organic, with belts and machines going places they need to go and be. Eventually, it becomes too cramped and messy to add the thing I want to put in, so I pick everything up and reorganize into a more efficient layout of my own design. Then the cycle continues.

[SaltHuntress]

Im the type of player who gets too mind flooded after 20 hours and starts a new save cause its too much work to recover the last factory

[Kallistero]

I got my first win yesterday. It was also the Lazy Bastard, Logistic Network Embargo, Steam All The Way, and Raining Bullets achievements, all in one run, my first run (Smoke Me a Kipper achieve). That... that's what kind of player I am. You can see them all on my profile, achieved at the same time, for proof: https://steamcommunity.com/id/kallistero/stats/427520/achievements/

It was also a standard world, biters and regular resource gen and all.

[Ronin-XIII]

Thank you all so far. :) hope more post :)

My turn i guess lol.

I'm kind of a role player at times. Like one time did a deathworld game imagining it as 40k and were desperately trying to get crusual resources off planet to help the main war and the bugs are basically lesser tyranids. I use a lot of weapon and defence mods to give a sense that each base is a giant bunker with armored armed trains moving supplies.

Otherwise i like to make a bunch of small bases that make a specific harder to make item then have them go into a large endgame style base. I never stress on over optimising but still try to be efficient. If it flows good i like it.

With co-op when I'm able to get people to play i love organizing like.

Player 1 make ammo town that will supply all the bases with ammo and defences. Player 2 make gas town and preps the main fuel lines. Player 3 and 4 make a strong core base that can support the building of a big base in a highly defendable location.

Sometimes also use quick start mods when feeling more lazy and want to get things moving.

[Fel]

Originally posted by Kallistero:

I got my first win yesterday. It was also the Lazy Bastard, Logistic Network Embargo, Steam All The Way, and Raining Bullets achievements, all in one run, my first run (Smoke Me a Kipper achieve). That... that's what kind of player I am. You can see them all on my profile, achieved at the same time, for proof: https://steamcommunity.com/id/kallistero/stats/427520/achievements/

It was also a standard world, biters and regular resource gen and all.

I'm not doubting you or anything like that but because your profile is set to not show your games your link is just sending us to your profile page instead.

[Fried_Chickens]

i'm a player from the himalayers.