Yesterday I made the questionable decision of downloading Factorio. I thought I could learn something useful from it, and I figured if I blind-speedrun the rocket I can probably get there pretty quick. After all the fastest time is 2.3 hours and I'm a pretty good engineer.
I've now sunk in 5+ hours and I'm only done with 4/5 of the tutorial...
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Welp, it's over. The rocket has been launched
I did end up finding more oil sources.
I never built rail - which I think is correct as I was never blocked on the thoroughput of resources. The reliability of pipelines was worse, but it was good enough.
I spent a lot of time squashing bugs until I finally automated lasers and mines. In retrospect I think I should've just done mines.
I struggled scaling potion production for a while because my base was too compact.
Building the rocket pad and loading it up did not take much time.
Now, do I regret? It was fun, but I also didn't learn that much and it took a lot of time. I don't like the negative effects that it had on my schedule and I own up to the negative effects that had on other people.
But if I went back in time with just my heuristics and not the memory, I would have decided the same thing. I still think it was a reasonable bet, so I do not regret getting the game.
RIP there's very little oil on my map. Only found 2 sources so far (the faint purple pixels). While I got the source on the bottom right, the top one is close to dangerous alien bugs (the red clusters). I am blocked on literal debugging 🐛
On the other hand, my APM for working on manifold stuff is a bit higher, especially when multitasking stuff with wait times (like pushing cloud functions)
On the third hand, I need more naps..