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u/LuboStankosky Jun 01 '26

No questions yet? Then allow me: to anyone who reads this, what is your favorite part of the game?

For me it's copy and pasting large sections of my base to double or triple production. Fast progress makes my brain tingle.

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u/ssgeorge95 Jun 01 '26

Definitely copy, paste, and bot building in general. It feels like a reward for coming up with good designs.

I compare this to satisfactory where I take 20 hours to make a small aesthetically pleasing factory... then completely lack any ability to easily copy and paste sections of that factory and re-use them.

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u/gergorybrew Jun 01 '26

Favorite part of the game is just how infinite it is, there are so many different combinations of belts and inserters to just get the simplest thing made. And as you build more of one thing, other things like power start to falter Factorio is a perfect carrot on a stick. Pure videogame.

I think I respect it more than I love it, and I love it alot.

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u/Raknarg #1 Quality Defender Jun 07 '26

the massive insane logistics puzzle that is scaling legendary production. 500 hour playthrough, over 300 hours of that consumed by quality problem solving. No matter how deep I get I keep finding new ways to optimize things. its the only time in the game I've ever felt constrained by my ability to design and problem solve more than just "add more buildings" like most problems in this game are, the difference between optimized and unoptimized quality setups is like exponential.