I'm just gonna go ahead and do ssilk's job.
A mod for what you want: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=390

How is that what I suggested? From what I could quickly gather, all this does is make a ton of unbalanced changes to the game. Perhaps I didn't find the right info ...

Hey guys, I don't know if this has been suggested before, but I got this idea the first time I played Factorio: I think it would be awesome to have continuous games, kinda like in Anno. Here's the way I see it.

Around end game, you would unlock the ability to create trans-planetary rockets, and ...