A new factory game just hit steam in Early Access, and looks to combine all the best elements of Factorio, Satisfactory, and of all things, Planetary Annihilation! We’re tasked with building factories on planets all over the galaxy to gather the resources necessary to build one of the greatest structures ever conceived by man: the Dyson sphere!
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Factorio meets Planetary Annihilation ? You have my attention my good sir.
give me more!!!!! I want more. I also want game.
Talking starts 7:06
Game setup starts 9:06
been a bit since bentham posted
I've missed your content more than you can imagine
Nice to see you back in your natural environment again bud 🙂
You really need to stack the labs for increased production and research
Other than that, loving watching you, even if you are the one who got me hooked on Factorio
Another time sink.
Bad MangledPork! Giving me delicious drug samples…
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i lowkey watched this, stopped half way through to play the game, then 7 hours later realized it's nearly 10 at night and i need to sleep
I hope the inter-planet logistics vessels are space trains
The man needs a complete studio so he can feed our need for his content.
If you didn't know, Bentham's started streaming with the Saturday crew again for a few weeks now. He doesn't upload most of the vods, but if you hit the bell icon next to the sub button you get a notif when he goes live, then when he's not live you can still click the notif and watch the vod anyway.
Video starts at 7:09.
Edit: I am pleasantly surprised, he is actually going through and learning the game. Even asking chat. Fantastic, credit to the sale goes to MangledPork. Bentham, sorry for doubting you.
Have you ever played Surviving Mars? It seems like you may like it, although the colonists demanding luxuries as soon as they land can be annoying.
12:00 Ever wanted to play Planetary Annihilation, or Supreme Commander, but felt there was to much violence and destruction, and not enough building?
Well here, we made a game like that!
XD
what i love is the fact late game you will esentialy have mining worlds and forge worlds
About the list of stars at the begining: That seems like it had at least the main types of stars, but it is certainly missing subtypes like pulsars and magnetars. I imagine others as well.
Cool game! I would enjoy more.
This reminds me of spore
But tbh when ps the next stream / vod
I'd say it feels more like Factorio + Stellaris. But then i heard the devs DO have plans for "hostiles" out there in the cosmos. THAT will be very interesting, given how many drones and units this game can support..
The fun fact about Dyson Spheres irl is that, not only would you get inconcievable amounts of energy, you would also essentially get infinite hard matter as well. Because of a thing called star lifting, one can use the "reflective pressure" of the light solar panels orbiting, to "squeeze" and "pump" the star, such that matter and wind it normally radiates uniformly, will be directed into the polar regions.
Essentially a slow "jet" of star matter, like a quasar but more calm. This material can be harvested. Even though the amount of Iron etc in a star like our star only makes up a tiny fraction of a percent, especially that which escapes the surface, it is still more sheer material than we can imagine. Most of the iron in the solar system is diluted in the sun, NOT on planets.
So you basically not only get "free" energy, you also get "free" matter to build with.
Free from our perspective, but of course it "costs" the creation of an entire star. But we didnt have to bear that cost so, yolo.
Note, you can also use the same principle to create a galaxy-spanning superweapon that surpasses anything Star Wars imagined.
And most plausible Dyson Spheres are not actually solid spheres, but Dyson Swarms, unconnected satellite panels.
If one covers the majority of the sun with such satellites, one can also "open a tap" by repositioning some of said satellites, to create an opening. What will then happen, if all the other satellites simply move their orbits closer, is that again, you'll electromagnetically "squeeze" the star such that it shoots out a thin extremely high energy jet through that narrow pinprick opening, with the theoretical capability to hit another solar system thousands of lightyears away (after thousands of years, naturally).
The effect of that would be total sterilization of any life around that star, and all the planets getting their atmospheres blown off. Basically imagine a whole stars coronal mass ejections, but concentrated into a "laser" tight focal point.
The stuff you can do with a dyson swarm is insane, and fully in the realm of plausibility according to physics.
I'm just spewing layman explanations here, but there are legit math that have been done on this.
This is why any potential ET civilizations we encounter, that have multiple colonies around multiple star systems, are by definition not hostile. Because if any civilization what so ever in our galaxy was hostile, we'd not be around past the stone age, nor would any life in our entire system. We'd never even know it happening until it hit us.
The fact we're alive, is proof of 1. we're alone, or 2. other civilizations are benign.
56:40 I assume the devs call them "sorters" so they are different to factorio.
Maybe they are worried about copyright. Or they just want to be different.
Who knows
1:26:06 You need to dedicate a lab to do research or science packs.
At 1:11:22 , when you first open the lab, you could select the mode. Research or science pack creation.
You clicked science pack creation.
I hope the first enemy you meet says : All your bases are belong to us.
In factorio 1.1 you can click on inserter and get what it's holding (also ctrl-click on inserters)
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Enjoy man, this game is so addictive!