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'The factory must grow': Hundreds of Factorio players built a record-breaking 'God Factory' to produce an inconceivable 1 million science per minute

www.pcgamer.com 'The factory must grow': Hundreds of Factorio players built a record-breaking 'God Factory' to produce an inconceivable 1 million science per minute

Over the weekend, Factorio history was made.

'The factory must grow': Hundreds of Factorio players built a record-breaking 'God Factory' to produce an inconceivable 1 million science per minute

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I want to try factorio but I'm afraid I'll get hooked
- I cannot stress this enough if you're remotely worried you'd get addicted you definitely should NOT play. I used to do opioids and I'm not exaggerating this game was more addictive for me. Like lose your job addictive. I'm adhd and on the ASD and absolutely obsessed with the concept of optimization. The thing is you'll never really reach peak automation unless you do like this project, 400 people 10,000s of hours.
  I'll give you another reference point. I've also played wow, Arma Life, and Foxhole, all very common addicting games. I'd sit down to play one of those with a beer and after a ~3-5 hours and a few beers I'd take a break and notice time went by. Factorio I'd sit down at 6pm and never touch my beer, never move an inch from my seat and think a few hours went by when it's now 8am and I only notice 14 hours went by because I see fucking sun light.
  Fuck this video really makes me wanna play again haha.
  
  As someone with a large capacity for addiction and medicated ADHD, thank you for this warning.
  Sometimes, it's easy to be lulled into a sense of wellbeing, only to fall headfirst into a hyperactive episode on some seemingly innocuous hobby or game.
  I'd rather obsess over a productive self-interest if I'm going to lose sleep over it
  
  Sounds like your average civilization game, to be honest. Freakishly addictive
  
  Fuck I gotta play it
- Just don't start it in the evening. You will lose your whole night.
  
  And don't start in the morning or you'll lose your whole day
  
  You know what, just forget the whole thing!
  
  That's what backup saves are for
  
  Nothing like thinking "I'll just play for 1/2 an hour, then have breakfast." Next thing you know, the wife is coming in, and you're still in your pajamas, having not eaten at all.
  
  And then whole night too
- Don't worry, you can't craft hooks in Factorio.
  
  With mods you can! More specifically, a grappling hook!
  
  Just watch out for that train
- be very afraid
- Last time I played it was in college. I tried it out, and played my first game while relaxing before bed at 10:00 PM. I never ended up going to bed, and only realized I played all night when I heard my roommate making breakfast at 8:00 the next morning. I ended up uninstalling after the next time I played it, the same thing happened. After uninstalling it I was still thinking about optimization.
  This game is too addictive. Calling it cracktorio is absolutely accurate.

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