{"id":52135,"date":"2021-04-13T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=52135"},"modified":"2021-04-13T07:09:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T11:09:45","slug":"this-week-i-played-april-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=52135","title":{"rendered":"This Week I Played (April 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Factorio. I played Factorio. A reasonable person could say that perhaps I played too much<\/strong> Factorio. I don’t know. I’m not a reasonable person and I don’t have time to argue about it because I’m too busy trying to scale up my power plant and solve the traffic jams my trains keep creating.<\/p>\n

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Factorio<\/h3>\n

I've downloaded a mod that lets you hook numeric panels to the circuit network. You can see I've launched 178 rockets so far.<\/div>
I've downloaded a mod that lets you hook numeric panels to the circuit network. You can see I've launched 178 rockets so far.<\/div><\/p>\n

I’ve been messing around with various cheat mods, and I’ve found the game to be more engrossing than ever. It’s a lot like my recent obsession with Cities Skylines<\/a>. Sometimes cheats can make a game more interesting by allowing you to focus more time on the parts that most interest you. I wouldn’t want to have these cheats when I’m learning<\/strong> the game, but once you’ve mastered the systems it’s nice to skip the early game and small-scale stuff so you can focus on the large throughput and optimization challenges.<\/p>\n

I’ve also been using mods that add more conveyor belts to the game. In the base game, there are three tiers of conveyor belts:<\/p>\n