Factory Time

Currently afk-ing to wait for loop to end and research Time Control. The game could really use some way to force the loop to end. 

Even though I understand you meant it as a complication for the player to work through, with entropy accumulating being a failure state - it is ultimately trivial to deal with and leads to afk and boredom.

That said, I had a lot of fun, especially since thanks to the time limit you cannot approach it as any other idle game. 

Prestige system does not exist in other configurations?

Suggestion. Can you make a calculator like how Satisfactory has one so that we can calculate how much materials we need for a certain number of items?

Between DSP, Factorio, Factory Time, Satisfactory, and Splendor modes which is the hardest? If you don't mind of course!

Nice game!!

Got a QuotaExceededError while playing Chrono mode. I put 1k robots to build each facility, while trying to keep all resources at 1k positive :V.

Also, the dark matter recipe is apparently not consuming Temporal Dust as it should. 200 entropy stabilizers on producing dark matter, and it consumes just less than 1 Temporal Dust.

And the lag is terrible. Instead of simulating each producer individually, simulate the ticks. Use an array as big as the amount of ticks of the recipe. Then you operate in a round robin fashion. It's O(1), input independent and scalable!

Very fun :) just finished the default game mode, will probably be looking at the others soon. Wishlisted and looking forward to updates :)

Do the various styles affect gameplay, or are they just skins? This was never made clear.

You should optimize the generators on items. It causes significant lag when getting up to higher numbers. I recommend just grouping up producers and multiplying output. 

Gameplay loop is fun nice work!

Listed features include prestige mechanic but it doesn't seem to be there yet?

my iron deposit ran out and im soft locked lol

Great factory game, but it needs some balance if you want to update the game further, for example the radar, it's not going to make water go positive income never as it stands now, water consumption is way to high in comparison to the metals, and being a flat decrease for all, it means nearly nothing for water.

How do I know how much something is going to produce and how much it's going to consume in resources per second? For some reason never saw this.

This is very cool and fun. Great Demo!

Are there any plans to implement pollution and the biter threat?  

Maybe it's not what you are going for, but I think it would be super cool to replicate the delicate balance between factory expansion and devoting time and resources to producing gun turrets, walls, and ammo whenever your pollution gets too high. 

You should probably indicate somewhere your prototype is using Factorio assets.

Satisfactory is 3d Factorio and this is 1d Factorio

Gameplay and Critique ;)

Wow very good!

Very good demo so far! I think the framework is great.

There are some balancing issue with the current recipes, like each radar uncovering significantly less water than is needed to power it, making steam engines pretty much useless after the initial water has been used up, but for a demo it works well enough and it seems you are planning to rework the recipes so it shouldn't matter.

Currently the game starts to significantly slow down once you get into the thousands of machines, I think at the start simulating each machine individually is great but after 100 or so machines in one production line it could just switch over to a simplified input output calculation in the background instead, without any difference to the user, which should allow basically infinite scaling and I think that's always one of the best parts of these sort of games.

Wait, the button to add a factory is INVISIBLE?!?!?! 

That explains why I got stuck...

Edit: NVM apparently even having 3 factories to try and produce metal plates, showing 1.2/s means 0 production. Same with copper actually.

can we have a small thing of right clicking a item/resource to auto make/mine it so i can just speed through crafting and mining multiple things without having to go into that item/resource tab, this was mainly before you had automation but it can still be useful for the rest of the game

I dont get how we move factories

Ok, so for actual feedback, your nodes in the crafting area definitely need some kind of tooltip for what a given building or machine actually does before somebody builds one. I definitely had multiple times where I would build a new building or machine, realize I had no idea what it was for, and then went to clicking every other box to figure out what thing used it.