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Space Exploration has ruined me. (Discussion) (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world to c/factorio@lemmy.ml
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I don't think I could ever play without a jetpack. Ingot density helps solve so many logistical issues. Higher tech recipes making some things more efficient gives the game a really fun sense of progression.

That's outside of just liking all the puzzles it adds to the game.

Anyone feel similar? Different?

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[–] richard3030@lemmy.one 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I really liked it, but I started to get overwhelmed by the complexity of some of the space science. Now I don't know that I could get back into my existing save without spending hours trying to figure out wtf was going on, and the thought of going through all the early game again without changing something is also not super appealing.

I have been considering a K2/SE run, since I think that will change it enough to make it a bit fresher, and I've heard that despite K2 extending the early game, it makes some of the later SE things a bit more manageable. Can't remember the details of how, though. Was from a reddit post a year or so ago.

[–] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it'll be fresher, but by adding k2 you'll really just make the earlier game the same complexity as the bit that lost you last time.

[–] richard3030@lemmy.one 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Heh, you're probably right. I've gotten back into my exotic industries run for now, so I'll put SE plans back on hold.

Apparently K2 mixes well with 248k, so that might be an option for more complexity without the extreme space science grind or multi surface complexity of SE.

Edit: Apparently exotic industries is the sort of spiritual successor to 248k, but with more good stuff, even made by the same author(s). So I'll definitely go back to progressing with that mod. I'm in the electricity age, so it should really ramping up complexity soon.

[–] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago

I burned out of EI trying to find those bloody flowers. But it was great up to that point, as was 248k