kovarex

Congratulations, explanation of this kind of attempt is actually quite useful to read. I have a confession to make, I never actually tried the achievement, when we were designing them, we kind of looked at the world records at that time and multiplied it by something (2 I think), and hoped it to be reasonably achievable. With the science packs update, we didn't change the time and I was afraid that it might be too short, but it is probably ok.I should try it one day :)

My 4 year old started playing and he loves it, I didn't expect him liking it so much so soon. He now wants to play every day. I started a peaceful mode game for him and joined in multiplayer. He was just running around to learn the controls and explore, mining trees in the start, but eventually, he started to copy basic smelting setups and now he plays with construction robots and copy pastes solar arays.

I'm actually quite suprised how well the game scales as the technology goes on. Small/unexperienced kids can do super simple things like running around/mining random stuff and exploring, and then, they can step by step do more and more sophisticated things and explore the game as they age and/or get more experienced and the the technologies unlock.

Next game, we will play without peaceful mode.

There are a lot of things that mods can't do (these would be mainly the candidates). Or things that mods can do, but not in as optimised way as we can do.

Also, we would always make things little bit differently even if something similar is done by mod already.

As an example, I give you the blueprints.

There was actually a blueprint mod before blueprints became a thing in the base game:

You had a special item that you could build to specify 2 corners of the blueprint to be stored. Then, through some gui, you selected the blueprint to be built and then you had to build different entity that specified the position of the blueprint to be built. It spammed that blueprint on the map instantly for you. It was interesting, but very clunky. Compare it with what we have now, blueprints as items with tooltips that contain preview of the blueprint. Instead of just appearing, it is built by robots, you get warnings when you have not enough items to build i...

There is a lot that can be added. More than we could do in a lifetime :)

Adding things late game is fine by me. It increases the progression scale. Lot of people don't start the rocket, because it is almost "just the end of the game" (apart space science).

But if there was a whole chapter of gameplay behind it, you bet that more ppl would go for it, and even if they wouldn't, i don't care, i would and you would :)

There are SO MANY THINGS that could go into a dlc (lets call it expansion back). I have a whole trello board for things, and a working branch with one of the first additions I want to put there. We even spent one whole weekend testing the branch in a MP lan party, and it was a lot of fun. I'm just not allowed to put it into the base game, because we want to stick to no feature policy so the game gets actually finished. Obviously I can't tell you what it is. Sorry for teasing, I just couldn't stop it :)

So ... DLC makes a lot of sense to me, Factorio 2 ... not that much.

There are other possible things that could be done apart that. I would love to play some kind of Factorio online game. Turn based competetive - market driven game, where everyone build their own factory on their own little piece of land. People would have to try outsmart others, specialise depending on the market and try to predict the changes of the supply/demand ratios as the overall research p...

You are right.

I would love to do some of the content ideas we have in mind someday :)

The list of things we could do is long :) Now we need to finish 1.0 and lets see what we do then.