The restrictions on rail placement keep train layouts sane. There has to be a demarcation point between your rail and belt network. Now I can just fly in a train over top of my factory and drop materials everywhere. Now I can overlay two distinct rail networks in the same space.
I already have 1800 hours in Factorio. What more do the devs want from me?! My body can't take any more abuse!
I don't think I've ever been as excited about a game update as this new Factorio. I can't wait to make unholy train abominations floating atop my normal belt abominations
I managed to play the demo for something like 30 minutes, and then uninstall it. Precisely because I want to have a life. I know I would love this game too much.
It is the fastest I've ever gone with a game from "I love it so much, I can't stop playing it" to "I dream about it all night, and I have to stop, I feel like my brain is not getting rest at night".
This happens to me with every game eventually but with Factorio it happened so fast, I had to stop.
I'm still bummed out about that, and I want to give it another chance, but I can't be dreaming about it. I'll die.
I think the short slope is for QOL. Satisfactory has much gentle slope, and player end up build giant spiral structure to go up to where the game say it is way too high.
It's a game, it's fun, I really don't care deeply beyond the craic of taking a position.
Changing the graphics to show a rack and pinion on the ramps (and short sections before and after the ramps) would be a knowing nod in the right direction that I'd endorse, sure.
IRL, however, we're not going to see a rack and pinion lift a 250 wagon x 100 tonne load 2.5 kilometre long iron ore train up a short one story high incline (throw in the engine and the wagon weight that's ~ 30,000 metric tonne).
> IRL, however, we're not going to see a rack and pinion lift a 250 wagon x 100 tonne load 2.5 kilometre long iron ore train up a short one story high incline (throw in the engine and the wagon weight that's ~ 30,000 metric tonne).
A 2.5km iron ore train? What are you talking about? A 2-8 train in Factorio is 10 wagon-lengths, and each wagon is 7 tiles = 7 meters, so a large iron train is only 70m long.
IRL - In Real Life (outside of Factorio) those are the mean statistics on the trains I've worked with.
You can see video if you look for Pilbara ore trains.
In game - short ramps lifting 30 feet are cute and look like fun in a tile based game. In real physics the inclines are much more gradual, especially for loded ore cars.
I'm aware that Australia and the US have extremely lengthy, heavy trains (the EU mostly deals in short trains, though). But I was pointing out that the visual scale of Factorio is already pretty out of whack, especially for what ought to be the largest entities (the rocket silo is also comically small if you math it out), so objecting to the absurdity of the vertical incline feels like it's closing the trainshed after the locomotive has left.
If we're seriously comparing game V. reality it's more than just the incline, light transit rail runs in the air (with a considerable amount of strengthened understory) heavy resource ore trains (long or short) just don't (aside from cannot be avoided rivers and chasms).
Although I do recognise the awesomeness of early victorian wide valley crossing bridges (which didn't come cheap, then or now) and the jaw dropping bridging a valley with a canal (water ain't light .. but at least it doesn't vibrate).
Steam keeps counting "time played" while your PC is in Sleep mode with a game still open. Factorio is quite small, resource-wise, so keeping it open in the background is convenient.
Not saying this is the only possible explanation for 7000 hours. It's just something I noticed when my "time played" was way higher than what is plausible.
I'm a little scared to play Satisfactory. The only thing keeping my Factorio addiction in check is that I get bored after a few days. A new game just as bad might ruin me
Oh. Oh no.
No, I'm not ready for this.
The restrictions on rail placement keep train layouts sane. There has to be a demarcation point between your rail and belt network. Now I can just fly in a train over top of my factory and drop materials everywhere. Now I can overlay two distinct rail networks in the same space.
I already have 1800 hours in Factorio. What more do the devs want from me?! My body can't take any more abuse!
I don't think I've ever been as excited about a game update as this new Factorio. I can't wait to make unholy train abominations floating atop my normal belt abominations