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FYI: if you like Satisfactory and/or Factorio, you may want to check out Dyson Sphere Program - it's another factory-building/automation game, but you've got a whole star cluster and hundreds of planets to build an interstellar factory.
It might just be that were missing true endgame content, but currently it feels very unsatisfying at the end compared to the beginning of a game
The cool thing about Dyson Sphere Program is there is so much to do in it, you can create your own end game scenarios.
Also just because the blueprints are there, you don't have to use them. It does feel like cheating sometimes!
But, be brave. You’ll learn that, friends and family are ok, but maybe they are not up to a fully optimized supply chain neatly packaged in a beautiful building, from where your goods reach other factories by train to be transformed to finally reach their final destination.
As long as you haven’t been locked in Factorio and Minecraft in the past, you’ll be ok. Otherwise …
No, I do not let either game idle, as I consider it cheating.
Distribution -in life- often must wait for production.
Waiting is a part of life. Idle is a part of life.
I just thought you could use a bit of a different perspective here: It's not cheating to fill a queue.
On the other hand, I would argue that it is precisely how they are meant to be played. Of course there are always more things that you could do, but ultimately it's meant to be that you set up the system to run and then step back and let it work.
that's a bit weird to me, because both games are all about automation... do you insert materials into machines and remove smelted or manufactured items by hand? no? then you're idling as far as those machines are concerned, anyway. you're only ever working on a tiny fraction of a percent of the factory at any time, so all of the rest is? ... idling, that's right. running without you.
does it really matter if the percentage of machines working without you is 99.5% or a full 100%? I'd vote "no."
besides, if you fail to automate correctly, your factory performance will slow or even halt without you, exposing any flaws whether you're there or not.
automation and player idling are core gameplay mechanisms in these games.
automation is a core principle in these games. standing in front of 1 machine out of 10,000 or 0 out of 10,000 makes no difference; you're relying on your automation to act on your behalf on a large scale.
I'm happy how small development teams like those do such a great job and how the users mostly do the the same to them.