Brother this game has no drm, the whole schoolyard has been downloading for 10 years at this point.
It has sales from people wanting to buy it + people wanting mod portal comfort, not from forum sheriffs enforcing some arbitrary imaginary border to share.
If you read the ToS, everything is plain ...

We don't really consider playing with a friend or relative in your own home as piracy,
We're sure if the game is fun and engaging enough for them, they will eventually buy their own copy

It is apparently considered to be a form of advertising. This is the classic “Shareware” scheme - as used by ...

Maybe it is something in mental to decide that videogames are worse than for example play football (buy football shoes and other stuff, maybe trainer), or watching the movies (tickets, popcorn, cola, transfer).

You can look at this as not on videogames but as on amount of hour you will be ...

It's great to hear that more is coming, but I don't see a roadmap or any information about it anywhere until I came to these forums. Is it available to the more casual fans like me who don't want to trawl through forum posts?


"Casual fans" will simply get an update notice when starting the game ...

The mod portal explicitly says: "Downloaded by: 681K users", which I believe are distinct users. One could compare it with the numbers you get from the metrics tab ( Alien biomes' ) and see if the numbers add up. Although there might be some inaccuracies for mods older than Dec 2022. (Read the ...

> full modpacks (e.g., Krastorio, SE, B&A, Pyanodon)

Are not modpacks but overall mod,there is actually few modpack, being so easy to install mod on factorio most people hand pick mod themself, thus, I should really do modpack now... switch between space age or vanilla I don't use the same base ...

I asked Copilot to give an estimate.

My prompt was this:

Do you have any idea what percentage of Factorio players use mods? There is certainly no exact information, so in this case you may guess and answer imprecisely, unlike my usual preference for strictly accurate answers.


And lo and ...

I disagree with your assertion that having to quit the game to seek out help from some external source is not a bad sign.


If that is a bad sign World of Warcraft seems to be too difficult for players and has to be simplified.

If that is a bad sign Baldurs Gate 3 and practically all other RPGs ...

For me personally it was a missbuy.


I have to laugh every time I read somebody writing something like this. [...]


it sounds funny to me, too. like as if a video game was some kind of investment or something. basically every video game wastes time unless you go pro and earn money playing ...

There is a gigantic difference between things failing at 80% power satisfaction vs 50% .

>This is similar to the real world. With a blackout/brownout, all kinds of funny stuff will happen with more advanced manufacturing control.

In my expert option, that's 100% nonsense. In the real world ...

I think it is a great feature. The train stations have really memorable names. In the sense that you can actually recognize stations after very few times their name comes up.

I would say if your principal or sole interest was in megabasing then Space Age may not be a natural fit for you. Also if you have OCD and can't endure throwing away stuff you may have a hard time. If neither of this is true then Space Age is Base Game times two in everything

Small correction: 101 are 6% of minimum income wage since this month, it seems.

This is the regional pricing of steam, wube can't change that AFAIK. You need to contact steam, only they can adjust regional pricing, probably for ALL their games at once!

It is not necessary to spam your message ...

Small correction: 101 are 6% of minimum income wage since this month, it seems.

This is the regional pricing of steam, wube can't change that AFAIK. You need to contact steam, only they can adjust regional pricing, probably for ALL their games at once!

It is not necessary to spam your message into ...

Amarula wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 6:27 pm

meganothing wrote: Fri Jan 09, 2026 4:52 pm *made in Nauvis*

That looks to be common quality, you may want to consider upgrading to Epic or even Legendary

Would consider this if the speed boosts were similar to quality-upgrades in Factorio.

Does that count as a sign of appreciation?

More SPM? No, it's all dwarfed by all the quality-based million-SPM things. I cannot and don't want to compete with that.

Why compete?
If you don't like quality, don't use it.

I'm kind of at the same spot as you, and for the first time in like forever I wanna play on.

Production tec ~T8 ...

Everything about a game is optional so I'm not sure what point you're making.


Huh? Playing a game itself is optional. But to finish or advance in a game many things are not. For example paltforms are not optional in space age. Assemblers are (probably) not optional.

But many other things are ...

As I know, they do not plan any new content to 2.1.
Just some new features which was not added to 2.0.

Actually, it is pretty hard to add new content, as it requires much more work then even Space Age.
First of all, new major content should not be just "a new building" or "a new planet". It ...

Same here. I’ve been thinking about starting a new playthrough of Space Age, but the whole quality thing just puts me off. Even though I don’t have to use it, it feels like a broken mod I can’t uninstall. When part of the joy of Factorio is making your factory run perfectly and elegantly, having ...