Does this game scale like factorio?

[Simpson]

One of the communities sayings is "the factory must grow" and i find that part of the game to be quite satisfying, to need thousands and thousands of basic items and the demand is ever growing. as opposed to something like modded minecraft where you don't really need a lot of one thing, but rather get new machines to make small quantities of new things.

i also like that factorio has a lot of replayability and the endgame scales near infinitely.
i know this game doesn't have a procedurally generated map and has exploration that reminds me more of subnautica. i loved subnautica, but i could not enjoy it beyond that first playthrough.

[Rockethead293]

Yep, it absoloutely scales. People have made factories for tens of thousands of one single item, just to make like 3 of one item per minute

[Twelvefield]

Factorio is on it's own, though. The soul-shearing madness of a lot of Factorio's bleeding edge designs is magnitudes larger than what Satisfactory can do.

Satisfactory is necessarily limited by its map, and by 3D movement and building. You can build some very anal-retentive designs in Satisfactory, or you can sprawl, but the largest, most detailed Satisfactory layout would just be a corner of Factorio.

Even so, building in Satisfactory is satisfying. Figuring out the production line for your next project requires managing your resources, the space available, and a large chunk of exploration. The map design is logical, and largely helps more than it hinders, although there are some notable obstacles.

But once you've seen the map (and that will take some time), you can't really unsee it. Replayability comes from wanting to optimize, I think. Otherwise, I feel Satisfactory is more "one and done" than Factorio. That one gigantic play session in Satisfactory is a doozy, though. Easily worth the price of the title, if you like this kind of game.

[Shahadem]

Factorio does not scale infinitely.

Once you've researched and built all the top tier items the game is over. Building more of items you don't need is not scaling infinitely.

[RadioIesbian Fluid]

It depends what you want to do honestly.
You can beat the game by producing 0.5 nuclear pasta/min using 100 copper powder/min, which in turn would need 600 copper ingots/min.
Or you can create 200 singularity cells/min (to cover ficsonium fuel and other things) which would require 20 nuclear pasta/min. needing 4000 copper powder/min which would be 24000 copper ingots.
So it can kinda run away with numbers.

[Cheesecake]

Originally posted by Shahadem:

Factorio does not scale infinitely.

Once you've researched and built all the top tier items the game is over. Building more of items you don't need is not scaling infinitely.

One potential self goal in Factorio is increasing SPM and or RPM (rocket launches) so yes it can scale much more than Satisfactory.

While the map is not actually infinite in Factorio it effectively is at 1 million tiles in each direction.

[Hubkra]

I am not sure about Factorio, but Satisfactory is also about self goals. It can be for example making complicated item X/per min, using all resources or making the as much points/min as possible from sink. So it is depends mainly on player.

[Bobucles]

Scaling in terms of sheer numbers? Absolutely not. It's Not even close. Every single machine in satisfactory requires manual installation of some kind, even the blueprints require a final manual hookup to begin working. You will always be building machines no more than a handful at a time, connecting and fixing small issues, for the entire campaign. It does not compare to factorio's ability to stamp down an entire base in one click.

Scaling in terms of physical size? The 3d element offers a level of immersion that 2d cannot. Your pioneer is a tiny cog, asingle machine is many times larger than them. A full size base reaches ikea tier scale, a monster maze that covers entire biomes on the map. It's also building like 5 parts a minute, but don't sweat the details.