... if what you're expecting is the base game Factorio experience.
If you're running with multiple players I'm going to bet you'll average rocket launches ... I'm more going for running a serious hobby through a video editor than a speed run. And I think I could make that timing without pre-baking a layout.

Hello, was wondering if there was a problem with the service(s) that provide manual downloading of old versions? I can't seem to successfully download SA 2.0.70 (I want to watch someone's speed run playback.) The download keeps stalling.

Not trying to oversimplify the discussion but it seems speed run categories should just be decoupled from in game achievements.

Yes, it's really easy to get attached to '100%' as a speedrun category, but is that really what's important? Completing *every* honestly arbitrary achievement?

The 100 ...

... the whole way from the first second to the newly selected point (64x speed).

You could enter a time, then the game calculates and in that time you ... thing.
+ An otion to show the evolution in the debug menue.
(So booth can be shown permanent without a mod or a third party speed run tool).

Thx.

... blue science and stuff after.
Then, One day I decide I want 8 Hours speed run archeivement. So I start learning them again. I try build stuff in peaceful mode. And, after days of trying to design early-mid game BP for a bit. I decide to try it. Fail like 6 times in the first run(Try to reload ...

I never liked speed run anyway, TAS is fun, but seeing humans do the same thing again and again and again and again hopping this time it will be different is the very definition of insanity. Balancing a game looking at the "best" element is bad. You doesn't look like to listen to other argument you ...

I never liked speed run anyway, TAS is fun, but seeing humans do the same thing again and again and again and again hopping this time it will be different is the very definition of insanity. Balancing a game looking at the "best" element is bad. You doesn't look like to listen to other argument you ...

Done a 2.0 Vanilla play through (Without any of the add-on Mods). There it worked with one fish in the rocket. So if anyone is desperate to get it, its time for a speed run of the basic game.

... various predefined settings. From deathworld to a 9,5h private 100% (speed)run.
The other includes 2 finished seablock maps. 500h of pY. I know complex Factorio.

This is a total different beast. A beast not so much in complexity, but in change of playstyle. Because of new surfaces, new enemies ...

... it another go...

My thoughts on mods and why I use them:
I do still run Factorio in vanilla (or at least I try, then some utility, must have, mods sneak in and suddenly I have 20 bare essential mods in my "vanilla" run.
That being said I spent an awful lot of time following Nefrums speedrun guide ...

... in how slow they are, at least in 1.1.

Bear in mind that a world-record speedrun is under an hour. A fast casual run takes half a real-world day. A Spoonless run has a maximum time allowable of eight hours. That's a full real-world eight-to-five workday.

This game is as slow as a tree sloth on a hot ...

... buffers, I scale as best as possible, with ratio and logical. I don't "speed run", instead "slow run", with optimize. And i dislike game with spoilage exactly because i like adjust production.

Spoilage will require speedy and avoid optimizing :(
Certainly not the opposite.


But how does "white ...

... buffers, I scale as best as possible, with ratio and logical. I don't "speed run", instead "slow run", with optimize. And i dislike game with spoilage exactly because i like adjust production.

Spoilage will require speedy and avoid optimizing :(
Certainly not the opposite.


But how does "white ...

... thing, an ALIENS. Maybe there are not only harmful? I would like to do speed run to collide with gleba (is polish phrase, "zaliczyć glebę" - fall on something hard)

... play that way again because it is simply annoying. xD

For example the speed run achievements; or playing without a particular type of turrets or energy production or without logistic bots. Or the lazy bastard achievement. You probably only ever do all that stuff once to prove you can beat the game ...

... likely not look back either unless you want to do a 2.0 no-expansion speed run for once (which I definitely intent to do eventually after some Space Age runs).


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Btw... I almost forgot... I am also sure that after 2.0 there will be a mod that will patch the RCU back in for the nostalgia and ...

... worth coal feeding into ghost entities is time critical for a number of speed run categories, off hand I can provide the below examples.

First 3 minutes of the steelaxe run, pre feed ghost drills/placed drills mix before during scaling up and opening:

https://www.speedrun.com/factorio/run/y4gdln2y ...

... eff1 in DW, and even then only a little bit, as you can pretty much just speed run to artillery / using landmines is enough.

However, I can't emphasize enough that DW marathon is a totally different game. One, I suspect, very few people have seriously attempted. And there is a reason why, it's a ...

... eff1 in DW, and even then only a little bit, as you can pretty much just speed run to artillery / using landmines is enough.

However, I can't emphasize enough that DW marathon is a totally different game. One, I suspect, very few people have seriously attempted. And there is a reason why, it's a ...

Doing DW without eff modules is real craziness.

Some guy did a speed run, but he pre-selected the perfect map for it. Which is way cheating when it comes to DW, imho.

Krastorio has this cool machine which sucks up pollution. I also like what they do with trees, but the nuclear thing is irritating and ...