Nope. Not going down another rabbit hole, thanks. Minecraft swallowed half a decade of my free time already and I've only just weaned myself off that.

Luckily I managed to dodge a bullet with Minecraft. Bought it, installed it, literally spent almost an entire weekend on it. Decided that was ridiculous and stopped, never to go back.

You wouldn't catch me playing one game forever with no end game in sight!

Luckily I managed to dodge a bullet with Minecraft. Bought it, installed it, literally spent almost an entire weekend on it. Decided that was ridiculous and stopped, never to go back.

You wouldn't catch me playing one game forever with no end game in sight!

This might just be the most addictive game I've ever played.

No need for steam! Direct download straight off the Factorio website. HTH.

Come join our talk of belts and insertion.

I bought Minecraft at the alpha stage on PC in 2010 when there wasn't really much to do in it and barely any documentation, so I never got hooked on it. Probably a good thing considering how addicted to stuff I can get - although usually to games with defined goals.

I still suck sooooo bad at this, but I've worked out that half my issues at least are not giving myself enough space to do things in.

I've tried to avoid spoilers regarding the best layouts ( apart from having to look up how splitters work ) and so I doubt my patented "Ingredients Carousel" set up,

It does seem as if you can "complete" it now, but I'm SO far from that it may as well not exist.

And still only half the cheevos!

There is no right way.

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

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

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?

Get him to install TeamViewer, man!

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?

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.