I suck at Factorio

[captainamaziiing]

I suck at Factorio.

Thank you for listening.

[Fletch]

We all do, some just relatively more than others. 100's of hours in this game and I still feel as if I'm just scratching at the surface.

[RiO]

We all suck at it. Some have just learned to suck relatively less at it. And others have learned how to competently fake not sucking at it, e.g. on stream.
But we all suck at it.

You're most welcome to suck at Factorio together with all of us.
The Factory must grow.

[Fel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWD-niiEjRg
(couldn't resist)

Don't worry, nobody magically gets good at the game, even those of us that have several hundred hours (or even in the thousands) still have something to learn from it.

That being said, if you want advices on something specific, don't hesitate to ask since that's what this forum is for.

[SciFiGuy]

oof - I hear that! I've over 1200 hours and barely feel comfortable calling myself an intermediate player. There's always a smarter engineer out there...

[puschit]

As long as you have fun playing it, you are doing it right.

[captainamaziiing]

Originally posted by SciFiGuy:

oof - I hear that! I've over 1200 hours and barely feel comfortable calling myself an intermediate player. There's always a smarter engineer out there...

Steam says I have 3500 hours in it. But Space Age is kicking my butt.

[GreenBeanN1]

What does it taste like?

For me it is sweet. Sometimes it tastes bitter. In most cases I don't like bitter. So I change it to sweet.

For example I can't stand that the nights are not dark. So I change it. Lights are underwhelming. So I change it. They use more power but the area they lit is much larger.

The game is great but not everything the devs like I like. Luckily the devs did understand that.

[GunRunner89X]

Originally posted by RiO:

We all suck at it. Some have just learned to suck relatively less at it. And others have learned how to competently fake not sucking at it, e.g. on stream.
But we all suck at it.

You're most welcome to suck at Factorio together with all of us.
The Factory must grow.

THE FACTORY MUST GROW!!!!!

[Serendipitous]

Originally posted by captainamaziiing:

Steam says I have 3500 hours in it. But Space Age is kicking my butt.

Makes sense. You are captain amazing, not space engineer amazing.

[GunRunner89X]

Originally posted by captainamaziiing:

Originally posted by SciFiGuy:

oof - I hear that! I've over 1200 hours and barely feel comfortable calling myself an intermediate player. There's always a smarter engineer out there...

Steam says I have 3500 hours in it. But Space Age is kicking my butt.

It took me over 1,200 to launch my very first rocket. And that was years before Space Age!

My personal motto for Factorio:
Try. Fail. Restart. Try again. Fail again. Restart again. Try again x2. Fail again x2. Restart again x2. Over 1,600 hours later of the above trying and failing and restarting... TIME WELL SPENT!

[GunRunner89X]

Originally posted by GunRunner89X:

Originally posted by captainamaziiing:

Steam says I have 3500 hours in it. But Space Age is kicking my butt.

It took me over 1,200 to launch my very first rocket. And that was years before Space Age!

My personal motto for Factorio:
Try. Fail. Restart. Try again. Fail again. Restart again. Try again x2. Fail again x2. Restart again x2. Over 1,600 hours later of the above trying and failing and restarting... TIME WELL SPENT!

Just to add: you must always seek perfection. But...

YOU WILL NEVER ACHIEVE IT!!! SUCH IS THE GLORY OF FACTORIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[🆄🅽🅲🅻🅴 🅹🅾]

Originally posted by captainamaziiing:

Originally posted by SciFiGuy:

oof - I hear that! I've over 1200 hours and barely feel comfortable calling myself an intermediate player. There's always a smarter engineer out there...

Steam says I have 3500 hours in it. But Space Age is kicking my butt.

Over 4K hrs in, still learning/finding out things. SA is very challenging for me, since circuit networks are now a hard requirement to make space ships not be a grind.

I suck at circuit networks.

[Slavbringer57]

286 hours and I made my first nuclear reactor setup ever yesterday...

Also spaghetti for life.

[DaMatth]

dont know your "story" but i have 2800h and i still feel like a mouth breather when watching masters like nilaus n others... dont take it to "personally". i am no software engineer and most things ppl like nilaus are explaining, are simply to high for me to understan. factorio is about to "build your thing as you like and see fit". just have fun and take "master videos" as an inspiration. most important thing is that you have fun and dont get frustrated m8!!

[Pay Child Suport]

Originally posted by captainamaziiing:

I suck at Factorio.

Thank you for listening.

I wouldn't say you suck at factorio. the tools provided to us is very lacking. for all the convenient "press Q" and the toolbar and the shortcut bar at the bottom, actually placing structures one by one instead of all at once is annoying. and for all the tedium that you do that, suddenly you notice something wrong in your build, so you remove them one by one...

the robots unlocking takes too long. would love to see a "starter build up to blue/yellow science" from nilaus, but that's asking too much i guess.