How are so many people getting overwhelmed / burnt out?

[Swaggaccino]

I'm on my first play through and have yet to burn out. Most of my frustrations come from not being able to drop splitters/mergers where I want to. I feel like most people who burn out early are either handcrafting their way to victory (lol rip sanity) OR are making a spaghetti factory. START OUT CLEAN. Build a large flat foundation (at least 50x15) in a resource heavy area on the map, keep all your constructors, assemblers, and storage in line. Rush to get coal power up and running. Upgrade your infrastructure when possible such as conveyor belt / miners mk2. I KNOW PEOPLE HATE conveyor belts mk2 but I was swimming in resources so I figured why not? Whenever you are waiting for your lines to make the next thing.... go do something else..... explore, decorate your base, set up new resource mining belts from far way, etc.... Check back in with your base and scratch another tier off the list. The game is smooth sailing until the final 2-3 tiers.

TotalXclipse's Perfect Starter Factory videos on youtube take you through the first 5 tier/milestones no problem. Once you have the good efficient lines up and running, the game is cake.

[Suzaku]

Current time played: 48 hours.

Average burned out player: 500+ hours.

[The Big Brzezinski]

I dunno about burning out, but starting over at the exact same tasks I've done several times before has limited appeal. A lot of people will make of their own rules and objects, or just build creatively, but I have other games for that. It's enough for me to solve the puzzle and move on before I get bored.

[MJS WARLORD]

i have 1500 hours and about to start my 3rd playthrough . not sure what the point of your post is ..... is it a rant or a question

[SpaceWombat]

I think for the players with 200+ hours on a save the burnout can largely be attributed to the lack of features like blueprints or building copy/pasting. By the time you have mk.5 logistics you've likely settled on a format for building things so there is a LOT of repetition to make the best use of resources. I got burned out in my latest run after I spent 20+ hours making an aluminum factory with 150+ refineries... then my next factories needed to be of near identical construction for pure iron & copper.


You can use the save editor and mods to achieve these, but most players won't go out of their way to track down features that aren't in the base game. The smart placement mod is certainly helpful for speeding things up but it is far from being rapid enough imo.

[Swaggaccino]

Originally posted by Suzaku:

Current time played: 48 hours.

Average burned out player: 500+ hours.

If it takes em 500 hours to beat the game, they are clearly handcrafting everything hence my point. Cool profile stalking btw.

[Suzaku]

Nobody said it took them that long to beat the game. You can beat in in a couple dozen, continue playing after beating it, or replay it many, many times. Point is that people get burnt out not by beating a game, but by playing it for a long amount of time.

So when you ask how people get burnt out, the answer is: they played a lot more than you.

And it's not profile stalking. It's research. Unless you'd prefer I just make assumptions so you can mock that instead?

[kLuns]

The game doesn't force you to hurry. I have a burn out from reality and escaping to Satisfactory helps for me. Nilaus has a nice youtube video about clean setups:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nob5NT50Oy8

I tend to cram too much factory in too litle space and it doesnt work. I even pace two steps between constructors now and put only one smelter on a foundation.
The only cramming that I still do is placing splitters in the air so the smelter gets the splitter on its back. And utilizing the space on top of the manufacturer entrance for splitters.

Once you get in Tier 5 setup a small rubber/plastic/pet coke factory, then get the basics to feed one manufacturer for HMF and once running do the same for computers. You can buy the misssing items to unlock mk4 belts and mk2 pipes in the awesome shop to boost your progress.

[Vault Traveler]

dunno what you talking op some peope hooked others dont, its not chrystal meth its just a game

[Swaggaccino]

Originally posted by Suzaku:

Nobody said it took them that long to beat the game. You can beat in in a couple dozen, continue playing after beating it, or replay it many, many times. Point is that people get burnt out not by beating a game, but by playing it for a long amount of time.

So when you ask how people get burnt out, the answer is: they played a lot more than you.

And it's not profile stalking. It's research. Unless you'd prefer I just make assumptions so you can mock that instead?

Except it's not called burning out after you beat the game and replay it - it's called getting bored. Burning out is what happens when you fail to complete your objective first time through. Why do you think people say "I burned out of grad school"?

Also there's dozens of topics about this specifically, the most recent one -
https://steamcommunity.com/app/526870/discussions/0/3430075523239032367/

[God of Snacks]

Start out clean? What tier are you on lmao. One you're first run, you will not make a clean Tier 4. And after playing a long time you will notice very minute things that could be changed or upgraded. From things as simple as Splitters and Mergers should be one structure, you should just be able to build into or out of any port. More complex things involve wanting logic gates. I want higher tier production facilities. I don't like building 300 constructors. Wish I had a Constructor Mark 3 that I would only need to build like 100 of or something... which i do with mods :p.

Vanilla can burn you out, but add mods in and you can fix any small minute issues that bother you.

[Mojo]

Originally posted by Swaggaccino:

Once you have the good efficient lines up and running, the game is cake.

There is your answer to why so many burnout. :)

Also get back to us when you get a few hundred hours under your belt, let us know if your thoughts have changed. :)

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Originally posted by God of Snacks:

Start out clean? What tier are you on lmao. One you're first run, you will not make a clean Tier 4. And after playing a long time you will notice very minute things that could be changed or upgraded. From things as simple as Splitters and Mergers should be one structure, you should just be able to build into or out of any port. More complex things involve wanting logic gates. I want higher tier production facilities. I don't like building 300 constructors. Wish I had a Constructor Mark 3 that I would only need to build like 100 of or something... which i do with mods :p.

Vanilla can burn you out, but add mods in and you can fix any small minute issues that bother you.

True!

My friend was already on his 10th like map when I joined him for our first one!
By the end of said map, our base was so horrific that he dubbed it "The Elder Spagget God of the Sands"

After like 4 more maps we ended up with 4 people in the eastern desert, and ended up actually creating functional towers with factories inside and actually good equal spacing for decorations later on

Edit: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1810987828610864727/849960AB82BF7D32F0E2FBDCF211FCC0C4D1C6E4/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

As a matter of fact here is the result base we had by the start of the final milestone elevator items, as you can see, this is was my first time playing, and the base looks...well it may look clean but no, theres a lot of mess in there.

[Darklight]

You only have 50 hours in the game, on your first map. If you want the answer to your question, come back when you've added 500-1000 hours and have restarted multiple times after "beating" the content released at the time. It's really simple as that.

It's not like it keeps people away anyways. This is a really good game with good update. No matter how burnt out you are with the current update, your always playing the next one.

[curtyuiop]

I don't know how so many people get burned out, I'm at 2000 hours on my current playthrough, and have never watched a tutorial video and never will.

[Fiveball]

Originally posted by MJS WARLORD:

i have 1500 hours and about to start my 3rd playthrough . not sure what the point of your post is ..... is it a rant or a question

Sounds more like he is trying to be helpful and prevent that burnout with strategies he takes.