Idea: a mod which adds a "fatigue/sleep" meter to govern your cracktorio habit.
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 7:55 pm
I think it goes without saying that many of us have binged on factorio to an unhealthy degree. My partner is really not happy that I played factorio for 12 hours a day over thanksgiving. Apparently my husbandly duties are more important that securing more copper ore but I digress...
So here is my idea: A mod, which adds a "sleep" mechanic on a customizable schedule.
So let's just presume you need to "sleep" for 1/3 of gameplay, because that's the normal sleep amount for humans. That means for 2 hours of active gameplay, you must enter "sleep" mode for an hour. That is, you must let the game run in the background for 1 hour while you character does nothing at all.
As you actively play, your fatigue meter increases. As it this increases, many game play mechanics degrade. You field of vision becomes limited and darkened. Your movement becomes slower, as does your crafting speed. Basically, everything gets harder and harder until you are forced to throw in the towel and go to "sleep". While you are sleeping, you can do nothing but your fatigue meter recharges. Pressing ANY key will awaken you and you fatigue meter starts to deplete again.
This mod could serve 2 purposes.
1) Make sure you aren't devoting your IRL life to factorio.
2) Force the players to build automated systems which can maintain themselves while you sleep.
Other ideas:
an alarm clock that goes off after your meter refills and which is also tied to the signal network to wake you in an emergency.
So here is my idea: A mod, which adds a "sleep" mechanic on a customizable schedule.
So let's just presume you need to "sleep" for 1/3 of gameplay, because that's the normal sleep amount for humans. That means for 2 hours of active gameplay, you must enter "sleep" mode for an hour. That is, you must let the game run in the background for 1 hour while you character does nothing at all.
As you actively play, your fatigue meter increases. As it this increases, many game play mechanics degrade. You field of vision becomes limited and darkened. Your movement becomes slower, as does your crafting speed. Basically, everything gets harder and harder until you are forced to throw in the towel and go to "sleep". While you are sleeping, you can do nothing but your fatigue meter recharges. Pressing ANY key will awaken you and you fatigue meter starts to deplete again.
This mod could serve 2 purposes.
1) Make sure you aren't devoting your IRL life to factorio.
2) Force the players to build automated systems which can maintain themselves while you sleep.
Other ideas:
an alarm clock that goes off after your meter refills and which is also tied to the signal network to wake you in an emergency.