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oxbrain posted:After generations in space the colonists arrive to find their new home mined out and more polluted than their last one. Good thing they already have a colony ship. Nah zero pollution; I removed the atmosphere so it wouldn't ruin my shiny concrete finish.
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Looking forward to a ton of new content. I've been wanting to play some more but I'm un original and challenge or self restriction runs aren't really my thing.
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Have they said anything about when .12 will be out? I keep thinking every weekend that surely this will be the one and every week its some new feature they're adding before .12
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I've been  ing pretty hard too. Production games are my favorite, and Factorio is king among them.
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I get the impression they're going to take their time with .12? They reached their comfortable stable .11.x version and want to develop a load of new things for the new version. I think that's the one they want to go to Steam with, too, so there's quality stuff to build up with it too. I'm not expecting it any time soon, anyway.
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Friday Facts 82, April 17th posted:The [0.12 todo] list isn't so scary after all, so my optimistic estimate for 0.12 is 1.5 months from now, while slpwnd estimates 2.5 months from now. I know he is going to be right, but I still prefer to be optimistic and I also prefer to be pushed by deadlines. So somewhere around June or July. Maybe.
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I did another little mod tonight. Easy Belt Layer (autoplace belts, with turns). Could probably be improved. But I'm sleepy.
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I'm rather keen on some Multiplayer of this. I am bad at it as a warning though and never got that far. Anyone up for some Multiplayer this weekend? Tonight or any day up till Sunday is good for me. Edit: And how would you explain what this game is to a friend that doesn't make it sound like you've gone a bit crazy. "It's a game about making things to make things so you can make things" Fans fucked around with this message at 12:38 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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Fans posted:how would you explain what this game is to a friend that doesn't make it sound like you've gone a bit crazy. "It's a game about making things to make things so you can make things" Call it a  factory-building manufacturing logistics simulator Or just tell them to watch the demo
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Jun 4, 2015 13:45
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It's actually a software framework simulator.
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LordAdakos posted:Call it a 'Well, you remember when McCain kept saying "drill, baby, drill" well its like that but with stupidly fast trains too!'
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You want to sell this game to anyone? Link them this. E: vvvv 
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Jun 4, 2015 19:04
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Step 1: Watch the trailer. Step 2: Play the free demo. Step 3: Watch the trailer again.
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That is a great video!!! I don't think I'll ever get there though 
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Jun 4, 2015 19:39
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Ha, for some reason I hadn't seen that trailer until now. Congrats to the Factorio team, that trailer is going to go a long way towards making the game a commercial success.
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Jun 4, 2015 20:55
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Downloaded the demo a few days ago and bought the full game the same day. It is freaking amazing. The thing I like most about it is that 'full screen' is actually borderless windowed. FINALLY. First developer I've seen that got this right. Edit: Also, thanks for the tips on self sustaining coal mining at the start. Got this little quad going. 4 burners, 4 burner inserters and 4 chests. 
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Jun 4, 2015 22:21
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You guys might be interested in Big Pharma: http://bigpharmagame.com/ Scratches a lot of the same itches.
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Ambaire posted:Downloaded the demo a few days ago and bought the full game the same day. It is freaking amazing. You don't need the chests or inserters. The miners can insert directly into one another, and ctrl-click (or shift-click? I forget) to take all the coal out of each one.
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Foehammer posted:You guys might be interested in Big Pharma: http://bigpharmagame.com/ Just saw that this was finally available on RPS today. Picked it up. Going to be fun but jesus they need to tweak the belt auto-snapping a bit (and the right click auto selling something you've picked up for half price instead of just setting it back down. Too easy to lose money that way. But the game's 'not out yet' so if that's all that bothers me it's going to be a good one)
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Evilreaver posted:You don't need the chests or inserters. The miners can insert directly into one another, and ctrl-click (or shift-click? I forget) to take all the coal out of each one. Yes, I am aware of that. The miners only have a buffer of 50, though. The chests make it so I can go off and do something else for a few minutes and come back to more than 50 coal per. Edit: Foehammer posted:You guys might be interested in Big Pharma: http://bigpharmagame.com/ Does this game have a demo? I didn't see one on the site and I'm not spending $20 for something that looks similar to factorio without playing it first. Ambaire fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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Jun 4, 2015 23:19
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Foehammer posted:You guys might be interested in Big Pharma: http://bigpharmagame.com/ Nooooooooo
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Ambaire posted:Does this game have a demo? I didn't see one on the site and I'm not spending $20 for something that looks similar to factorio without playing it first. I've been waiting for this to enter beta since hearing about it ages ago, so I went ahead and bought it. I'll try to play it for a few hours and report back so people will know if it's complete garbage or not at least. Also, Sips just posted a video of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znSPAdmvpZE
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Put in a little more time with Big Pharma myself. If you like Factorio but need more goals to have fun, it's definitely in that direction. Instead of being a big sandbox with "survive, make rockets, kill aliens" it's broken up into stages of "Make 100k in 10 years" "Produce X of Y, Z, Q objects within 12 years" etc. Also a little more spacechem like in that effects/side effects occupy "positions" so order matters, and also that you'll be increasing something just to debond it later to get a desired effect, unlike Factorio where you cram it into a magic box and the only route is up. Similar but different. Unfortunate there's not a demo though.
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Gibbo posted:Put in a little more time with Big Pharma myself. Interesting, but I think I have enough games in beta. I'll wait until its released.
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I'm really interested in Big Pharma, it looks like the kind of game I can play with the wife on the laptop, not too complex and doesn't need a poo poo hot PC. Please do report back/make a thread about it.
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Jun 5, 2015 09:39
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I'd pick it up, but it's Windows only
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Quite enjoying Big Pharma though it does chug a bit when your factory gets big. I made a pill with a terrible side effect and it's my best seller.  Nightmare inducing Insomnia cures. Aw yeah.
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That looks pretty great. Too bad I'm broke and jobless Oh well, it'll keep!
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Fans posted:Quite enjoying Big Pharma though it does chug a bit when your factory gets big. Ahahahaha, you invented a pill that sends people into a nightmare-fueled horror-coma and marketed it as a cure for insomnia 
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Devs are targeting end of june for 0.12 release. Also, new gun turrets! http://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-89   
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Neruz posted:Ahahahaha, you invented a pill that sends people into a nightmare-fueled horror-coma and marketed it as a cure for insomnia Not as good as my Female Contraceptive that causes flatulence. Sexy~
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Fans posted:Quite enjoying Big Pharma though it does chug a bit when your factory gets big. Can you do more Theme Hospitalesque humor stuff like that? Factorio scratches my micro/macromanagement itch, but if i can make stupid bloated head syndrome jokes and the like, i'm in.
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Dongattack posted:Can you do more Theme Hospitalesque humor stuff like that? Factorio scratches my micro/macromanagement itch, but if i can make stupid bloated head syndrome jokes and the like, i'm in. The game isn't deliberately funny, but the Ingredients cures and side effects are randomized meaning you can end up with some pretty horrifying combinations that people will still buy if you're the only cure going. Boogalo posted:Devs are targeting end of june for 0.12 release. Also, new gun turrets! That is one pretty gun turret. Fans fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Jun 5, 2015 |
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Big Pharma looks fun but looks as though it doesn't offer as much depth as Factorio. With Factorio you constantly want to start new games because there's tons of ways to improve the efficiency in your builds. From those that have played both games, does that seem like an accurate assessment?
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As someone who has mostly watched people play BP (and has played, like, all of two of the tutorial levels so far myself), the appeal of BP is that it is more about figuring out arrangements. The building placement is more restrictive, and the characteristics of the components and effects are random each game, so each game you need to come up with new ways to make stuff work. Factorio is more macro-level logistics, Big Pharma is more micro.
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Yeah there's a random element to your starting minerals, with random side effects and treatments needed to turn it into a workable cure. So there's a lot of working out layouts to save space and also keep up with the market. The way it works is each ingredient has a cure and a few side effects and a 1-20 Concentration scale. Cures and Side effects are activated along that scale, so Cold Relief could be activated on 3-7 and Nauseau on 4-8. You have machines that can add and take away from the Concentration in a few different ways and the aim is to try get the best match for the pill with the least amount of machines. So starting off you want to try get 3, so you don't get the side effect. Later on you can research and may find out you'd get more going to 7 and turning it into a Cream to lessen the side effect. Right now I have a Headache pill that both cures and causes headaches. Fans fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Jun 5, 2015 |
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Fans posted:Yeah there's a random element to your starting minerals, with random side effects and treatments needed to turn it into a workable cure. So there's a lot of working out layouts to save space and also keep up with the market. I'm a big fan of creams for thing that don't make any sense for there to be creams for. I had a huge selling diabetes cream. What the hell do you do, rub it over your pancreas?
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Gibbo posted:I had a huge selling diabetes cream. What the hell do you do, rub it over your pancreas? You can actually mix Cures together to make really obscure medicines. Who wants Wart Removing Anti-Pregenancy Sachets?
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Shame it's Windows only, or I'd pick it up. (The fact that most indie games come out on Linux as well as Windows/OSX has spoiled me.)
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Fans posted:Not as good as my Female Contraceptive that causes flatulence. Sexy~ Nightmare pills are better; given that the side effect is stronger than the primary effect you didn't actually make a cure for insomnia; you made the Scarecrow's paranoia drug and upon discovering that one of the side effects was 'puts user to sleep' marketed said horror pill as a cure for insomnia. It's perfect and beautiful in every way.
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