I had to turn on peaceful mode from the console because it felt exhausting and not fun anymore. Didn’t finish just yet, I’m trying to build my first moveable spaceship
Edit: I for some reason had the impression it can be done in a week or two, but months seems reasonable to me haha (especially if you’ve got to work irl)
Never finished it. Gleba frustrated me so much I’ve not really touched a factory game in nearly 2 years.
Wow, you hated Gleba so much you went back in time a year to stop playing factory games?! (Space Age came out just under a year ago)
I loved Gleba because it makes you rethink how you build a factory to avoid stockpiling and storage and instead keep everything moving. If you’re struggling with it you can also just use bots a lot and it works pretty well. If you’re struggling with the enemies you just need to defend your pollution cloud and they basically don’t attack at all.
Oops, you’re right, 2024 was only last year. What even is time?
Gleba was a pain. Once I got defense figured out and wasn’t getting harassed any more, it was much easier to focus on my builds.
While I still don’t like Gleba, it taught me how to create extremely resilient builds and forced me to fully understand belt logic. (I had an oopsie last night where I forgot about a one-off process I was running and I came back to 4M spoilage in storage. However, everything was still running and it was fairly easy to purge the mess.)
Give it a try again if you can muster the strength. It really did change quite a bit about how I solve problems in Factorio.
Managing spoilage is a PITA. But once you get the hang of filtering it out, it’s pretty simple. And it’s easier to bring in basic materials via platform schedules than to craft iron and copper in situ. You won’t need that much once you’ve set up the production.