2 wk. ago • 98%

Factorio has peaked at over 90k concurrent players for 2 days in a row now

3x the previous all time high just shy of 35k in August 2020 when 1.0 released - on a Friday during the pandemic.

26 comments

The factory must grow.

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Why does it dip at night?
Do people actually stop playing factorio, just to sleep?

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- Oh, no, that's just the dip during working hours for the other timezones
  
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  I had to pause and drive to work, 20 minutes of downtime.
  
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  Aah
  
  Do people actually stop playing factorio, just to work (on something else than the factory)?
  
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Totally deserved, such a great game.

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🫡 I'm doing my part

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- Engineer, reporting for duty 07
  
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  'your corporate steel ax (tm) is on the left, and here is the owner's manual for your mk][ armor that ... you'll need to make for yourself.' 07
  
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Two days? Impossible. I installed space age within moments of it being available and that was only like two hours ago. Right? right?

On the plus side. Automated red and green science!

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- You're making a joke, but I don't get it.
  
  I bought and installed Space Age about 24 hours ago, and I'm certain I wasn't the first.
  
  So what's the joke? I'm sorry I'm missing it.
  
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  Just playing on the idea that once you start up a new factorio map the days and weeks blend together and time passes without you noticing. Or at least for me :)
  
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  The joke is when you play factorio time dissapears
  
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  It's like playing Civ, just one more turn.
  
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FCOL, I don't even know what Factorio is. Guess I'd better check it out...

Should I kiss my marriage and job goodbye now?

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- Nah, you can put it down at any time. Your life I mean, not Factorio.
  
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- Your new wife is the factory and your new job is to make her thicc
  
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I will update a running total here:

⁤ 91 801 - 21:00 Monday
90 572 - 21:00 Tuesday
89 402 - 21:00 Wednesday
89 261 - 21:00 Thursday
95 758 - 22:00 Friday
111 160 - 22:00 Saturday
118 166 - 21:00 Sunday
98 562 - 21:00 Monday
93 980 - 21:00 Tuesday
90 954 - 22:00 Wednesday
85 407 - 21:00 Thursday
94 835 - 22:00 Friday
106 844 - 22:00 Saturday
112 738 - 21:00 Sunday

Times are in central european time, mind the DST clock-shift on the first weekend.

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Such a great game. If you’ve never played - now’s a great time to start. They changed it just enough where all your old tricks either don’t work or are obsolete. Back to spaghetti factories and making blueprints!

Although I was SHOCKED last night to realize cliff explosives are all the way down the tech tree now. I need to redo my entire base now.

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- I was SHOCKED
  
  Elevated rail is the reason. I know you still can't build fabricators over it, but at least your rail system can run straight. Research that Refined Concrete quick.
  
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- cliff explosives are all the way down the tech tree now
  
  Kinda. You do need to get off-planet and land on a different one, but (imo) it's the most accessible of the new planets. You definitely don't need to go all the way down the tech tree.
  
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I'm still trying to complete Satisfactory before I go back to old habits. Belt management is so unique in Factorio that I'm going to need a refresher anyway.

So they reworked the tech tree and added new planets?

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- And a fuckton of qol stuff. And the new planets each hold a massive amount of new content. In terms of technologies, but they also all have a fundamentally different crafting chain based on different available resources.
  
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