Why I play so many saves

[Jeff]

A couple decades ago I was playing a car factory simulator. In a couple hours I had over two billion dollars in the bank. I didn't like how easy that was, so I started again with $50,000 in debt to start. A few hours later I had billions surplus.

I read about how many players are still playing their first Satisfactory game after a year or more. I couldn't do that because then it becomes too easy and mundane.

When I play Satisfactory and unlock everything and get my gold coffee cup, I am bored and start from scratch again. I come up with new ideas to use to keep every game save different. This has been going on for years and I'm approaching 3,000 hours and well over 50 saves.

[Huren Ogeko]

I use the game as a sandbox of ideas. I have a save I make where I played the game to unlock everything and then I deleted everything I make in the game and trashed the materials. I now use this save as a end game starting point where i can begin with everything unlocked and a whole empty work with which I can create whatever I like without the burden of starter factory stuff getting in my way. And given the fact that some updates respawned vegetation I also got back all the stuff I cut down when making this save long long ago,

So I dont get bored with I get my coffe cup. For me when I launch that phase 4 elevator load that is when the real game begins for me. This game is me is a giant box of legos with no instructions to I have to follow.

[NZ.Zero]

I have one save and can't imagine starting again. If an update screws my save up or something i'd probably rather ditch the game tbh rather than start another one. I didn't rush it, I savoured every moment, so don't feel the need to go back.

[Unpopular Monster]

I play the same way, my friend who sometimes joins hates that i start from scratch so often, bu once everything is unlocked i just cant keep with it. i started playing with mods the other day and its giving me a lot more to do and slowed me down a but to unlock the normal things in game as well. i like it but something has caused multiplayer corruption in my save files that makes the saves single player only so its a risk.

[DaTank]

Good story

[Rymorea]

Nearly reach 2000 hours play time and totaly 4 saves. first one is a learning face so I let it tier5, second was a real chaos build till the end without any decoration cause I want to see the end tier, third one a little bit organized but no trains a lot of long conveyors with some trucks also no nuclear plant. And finally start a new one after U7 update, this save more then 800 hours and continue, semi modular item factories, expand all bioms a lot of train lines, 6-8 floor tower builds, used alternate recepies for more ingots with rafineries, and finally I try to build all uranium used to build nuclear power.
I give a break now, I wait U8 and maybe more time after U8 to start from the beginnig. I play DSP and hydroonorer these days to spend time till start a new save.

[Jeff]

Originally posted by NZ.Zero:

I have one save and can't imagine starting again. If an update screws my save up or something i'd probably rather ditch the game tbh rather than start another one. I didn't rush it, I savoured every moment, so don't feel the need to go back.

The great thing about Satisfactory is it allows you to be as creative as you care to be. Every save that I create is different from the last. Its an ever changing word.

[Jeff]

Originally posted by Arriba es Mejor:

I play the same way, my friend who sometimes joins hates that i start from scratch so often, bu once everything is unlocked i just cant keep with it. i started playing with mods the other day and its giving me a lot more to do and slowed me down a but to unlock the normal things in game as well. i like it but something has caused multiplayer corruption in my save files that makes the saves single player only so its a risk.

Some of the mods allow you to dramatically increase the amount of resources that you require and produce. This turns you normal game into a heavy industrial feel. However not all modded saves are like this. My current game uses vanilla only machines (no special recipes). What makes it a challenge is I'm also using larger containers that I fill up. Like one container holds up to 25,600 reinforced iron plates. So I have to increase production so this doesn't take a month to complete the task. This also means that I have to increase the amount of iron plates. Using refineries to up my game.

[Jeff]

Here's a challenge that I have completed a few times that you should try using the Refined Power mod. As you create your world, only use non polluting power. This means no bio burners, coal and fuel generators or nuclear. Just wind turbines, hydroelectric and solar. The challenge is that wind turbines have to be placed a certain distance from each other, there are just so many places to use hydroelectric and solar covers a large area.

I've accomplished this challenge using both low power vanilla machines and high power modded machines. It sure was interesting watching solar panels go down the belts during production.

[curtyuiop]

I am still on my first playthrough, I unlocked everything by 2020, and three years later still watching my conveyor belts. I never get bored. I have under 10,000 hrs in it. And under 123 saves.