Perhaps this will be better as a mod, cause I personally only see this as additional tedium.

nor a puzzle game
Factorio is one giant logistics puzzle. :roll:

I mean, if you really want to relate this game to a puzzle game, then by all means go ahead. However this game has more in common with starcraft than any puzzle game I've seen. Ontop of that, right on the front page declares that ...

eradicator wrote:
Reasoning:
Factorio is a (puzzle) game about automation.

It neither a survival nor a puzzle game. It a strategy game where the enemy is the environment, an for a strategy game to be successful, you require a way to constantly challenge the player.

Going to be honest with you, this sounds like an amazing thing if you want to make hyper specialized modular suits... Not so much as extra bodies.

Personally I would love to see a weather system that allows for different bonus an negetives to happen based on the biome you are in, like for example, in the desert. The chance of sandstorms could happen which greatly decrease visibility, but say certain bonus like you have a bonus to heating to ...

Honestly, I would go for more of an exploration method. We need more random in this game. Forcing players to set up outposts so that they find "research" basically items they can break down to research things, I know this game is about automation and all, but doing more things with the player would ...