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It would be good to watch managers, CEOs, CTOs or other higher management playing Factorio. I would pay for a Twitch/Youtube stream with Elon, Bezos, Mark, Nadella, Gates and other "famous" people to see how they play such games. On a second thought, that would make a good documentary/interview, seeing how high profile managers and engineers handle similar games, what they enjoy in their spare time :-)

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Since Musk and Bezos are actually building rockets I'd think they'd find a simulation to be less fun in comparison. But maybe they'd enjoy it the way a chess grandmaster enjoys playing blitz as relaxation during a break in a tournament game.

Musk has joked in the past in some Reddit AMAs that he models all his rockets in Kerbal Space Program first so who knows.

This is more likely to be marketing than reality. If he really works 100 hours a week.

Maybe modeling rockets in Kerbal is part of that 100hrs of work.

Musk is already playing a game; it's called "the simulation", and we're all in it. I'm not joking; according to him, we are most likely in a simulation. [0]

[0]: https://www.space.com/41749-elon-musk-living-in-simulation-r...

At least Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke plays Factorio, Starcraft etc.

Shopify employees can even expense Factorio :-)

That's super cool.

I've seriously thought of using Factorio for programmer job interviews, as a way to really get inside of somebody's head and see how they solve problems.

Wow that would be cool. Playing a similar game or an RTS to see how the candidate would perform.

I'm not spending 20-30 hours on your interview ;)

Musk would load a factory built by someone else, then sue his way into owning it (re: https://meaww.com/elon-musk-tesla-cofounder-lawsuit-settleme... )

FYI - Web of Trust marks that site as potentially harmful...

Search for `web of trust leak`.

It would be a game changer for anyone involved with manufacturing layout for solid objects at any level of business. I've personally used my own perspective from playing Factorio to influence real world factory design. It's a great way to strengthen intuition that complements knowledge and theory.

Phil Salvador wrote an article about the long lost SimRefinery by Maxis Business Simulations, and somebody who read it was able to dig up a floppy disk with the original game!

When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery

https://obscuritory.com/sim/when-simcity-got-serious/

SimRefinery recovered

https://obscuritory.com/sim/simrefinery-recovered/

A close look at SimRefinery

https://obscuritory.com/sim/simrefinery-analysis/

The sprawling, must-read history of Maxis’ former “serious games” division

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/05/the-sprawling-must-re...

A lost Maxis “Sim” game has been discovered by an Ars reader [Updated]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/06/a-lost-maxis-sim-game...

SimRefinery EXISTS! Let's play it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ6Cqn5rTfs

Their skill is attracting and utilizing the best Factorio players, not being any good at Factorio itself.

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