Be Excellent To Each Other

Ima gon keep this one.

And yet somehow you always find the wrong way, science can't explain it

I subscribe to the "yo momma" school of Factorio.
Ugly, yet functional.

I disagree because yo momma, unlike yo spaghetti-oh factories, flawlessly operates at scale.

But like yo momma, there's always a way.

But somehow also attractive yet useless.

And, ultimately, never producing anything of actual, real, value

DON’T TALK ABOUT MY LIFE LIKE THAT.

Three more hours disappeared in a blink last night as we made beautiful automation happen. This game is so simple but manages to pose challenges that are just so enjoyable to conquer. And gives you such leeway in how to approach them.

I think a large part of the magic is the tightness of the reward loop, and (as I've said over in the other thread) I think this is similar to Stardew Valley. At any point in time, there's always half-a-dozen things that very obviously need fixing, and dozens more if you pause to think about it. Small bits where things aren't running smoothly, or new expansion that's needed, or a new way to tackle an old problem, or some obsolete bit of base to clean up. And completing any one of those tasks usually only takes a few minutes. And feels good. And then you're only a few minutes more from feeling good again and wait why is it three in the morning now.

Raargh. I've been trying to purchase this for my father-in-law for his birthday.

He's not terribly technically minded, so I just about managed to get his Steam name from him, only for it to transpire that that's not the ID you need in order to find eachother on Steam. Not even sure either of us have profiles, just have Steam usernames. Back to square 1.

So I purchase a code via ebay, hoping to to email it to him for activation, only to be told it can only be distributed as a Steam gift. Get a refund, very nice ebayer all told, AAA+++ would recommend.

Now, is there anything obvious I'm missing?

It's his birthday today.
I can't talk him through the process of connecting our steam profiles, let alone creating one.

Any other options that spring to mind?

Have just checked the Factorio website and it seems I can buy from there. Sorry for wasting your time reading the above, though I hope you enjoyed observing the technically feeble-minded.

Get him to install TeamViewer, man!

Make sure you don't accidentally get him to install ManViewer, Team.

Eh, that might be his thing.

Ha, that would blow his mind

Maybe, but it makes tech support 10,000 times easier.

I've struggled with this in the past. A guy I work with gave me his Steam ID but I can't find him anywhere. I did read something about not being able to view someone's profile unless they'd spent over a minimum amount of money, but I've no idea if that's true or not.

I read that too. I think it's down to your steam username being different to a Steam Community profile - and you have to actively create that profile, which looking at my profile page, doesn't look like I've ever done. It is that profile that you send gifts to and from.

So my father in law are likely profile-less Steam users passing eachother like ships in the night.

Ultimately, it's been a right pain in the arse, but I've now purchased from the maker directly, set him up on his own Factorio account, activated the purchase, and sent him the login details.

The Goat Simulator Devs announced Satisfactory at E3. It looks like a blatant 3D version of Factorio, with more than a soupçon of No Man's Sky. It looks like it could be amazing.



http://www.satisfactorygame.com

All aboard the hype train manufacturing facility, toot toot!

I’ve preordered the £759 tat pack with working conveyor belt (3 inches, expandable, also title)

Peasant.

I’ve preordered the £7,826 pack that doesn’t come with the actual game but you get a model fork lift.

The version I bought was free, but comes with a north east factory that you have to cover the running costs for a full year, and top up the pension fund.

This game is weird. I'll not even think of it for 2 months, and then get a sudden urge and play until 3am. My crude oil => various chemicals production area now looks like some odd Escher drawing with looping pipes, strange chains of storage tanks and areas you can't reach.

Use underground pipes wherever you can. Helps for moving around and also weirdly pumped liquids lose less pressure in underneathies.

Oh, apparently that's been 'fixed'.

Potentially of interest here: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-03-12-the-wrenching-pleasure-of-despoiling-alien-planets-for-factories-in-satisfactory

Yeah, I have my eyes on that one