Play as Skynet
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2016 8:51 am
So, I'm a huge Terminator fan. And the other day I watched Salvation from the Blu Ray I had just purchased, after playing Factorio. Then it hit me, Factorio is one of the perfect games for a mod where you play as Skynet. Instead of Biters, you have Humans, instead of pollution aggravating them, you have human deaths.
Early game, you have to capture humans to get resources, and to construct your factories, all you start with is just automated soldiers, no construction units. And then you must choose, do you delay the human aggresiviness by feeding your prisoners, which will require using resources to grow them food, or just treat them as disposable, but you wear through them quickly, which would mean you have to prioritize automating ammunition production rather than research, thus delaying your progress and making for a harder game. And you'd end up with corpses you have to dispose of or you run risk of increasing diseases which increase death rate, quickly depleting your workforce. There are some more complex gameplay mechanics causing human aggravation(such as John Connor/former militaries), but whether or not those are easily implementable I am not familiar with.
Early game, you have to capture humans to get resources, and to construct your factories, all you start with is just automated soldiers, no construction units. And then you must choose, do you delay the human aggresiviness by feeding your prisoners, which will require using resources to grow them food, or just treat them as disposable, but you wear through them quickly, which would mean you have to prioritize automating ammunition production rather than research, thus delaying your progress and making for a harder game. And you'd end up with corpses you have to dispose of or you run risk of increasing diseases which increase death rate, quickly depleting your workforce. There are some more complex gameplay mechanics causing human aggravation(such as John Connor/former militaries), but whether or not those are easily implementable I am not familiar with.