An honest commentary:

I initially discover factorio via a twitch streamer and I got instantly hooked on the game play when I bought the game. But to be honest? I stopped playing after a month.

Several factors:
1. Once everything is built, like many other simulation games, there isn't much to do ...

Can I connect 5 pumps into one water network to support 50 boilers? On my first play through, I built 5 separate water pipe networks. Or, can I connect as many pumps as I want into one single water pipe network to all boilers. Does that work?

I was planning to build two rows of plastics chem factories. But for some reason, the petro doesn't travel past the first two chem factories. The the first two chem factories on the right side of the set up works but the rest on the left side just doesn't receive petro. I doubled checked and triple ...