Dyson Sphere Program Review (Zorlond)
I have no idea what I'm doing and I'm happy about it.
I've played Factorio, I've played Satisfactory. And yet they both left me wondering 'why am I playing this?' I always end up with ugly, tangle bases that just barely function, get depressed over the thought of ripping everything up and starting over, and just quitting. Maybe come back later to try again, but just end up in the same place. My brain just doesn't really 'gel' with these kinds of games.
But that didn't happen here. Don't get me wrong, my initial base was ugly, and still is, I haven't ripped it up to re-do it yet. But I made a main bus with transport belts and wind turbines that wrapped around the entire equator of the planet, threw some stuff on the belts, and just wandered off to build somewhere else. And then I did it again. And again. And now I'm building factory layouts from blueprints, hooking them together with logistic drone hubs, and setting up a planetary network to feed a dozen factory sites that each have sped up the creation of the next factory site. I wandered off to another planet in the system for other resources, setting up mining and factories there, then carting the needed parts back by hand, keeping things growing.
And I still want to keep going. I want to get inter-planetary logistic drones going. I wanna get the whole solar system providing it's resources towards more growth. I want to break lightspeed and hit up another solar system. I want to just keep on rolling and see if I can get the end-goal at least started. I have a purpose other than 'just more'.
It also helps that the Big Bad, the Dark Fog, is something you can just have not spawn in your game, or spawn in weaker. Or stronger, if that's your poison. As relaxed or tense as ya like. :)
So, that's my endorsement. I'm not good at these kinds of games, I haven't been able to stick with one before. And yet, here I am, automating to automate. And I'm happy.