<story><title>Factorio Future Plans</title><url>https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-365</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hirundo</author><text>I love this team and their game and have ~1k hours in it. But I hope they soon choose to do a whole new game. Incremental improvements to their masterpiece is a suboptimal use of their talents. Just a few more bulbs in an already brilliant room. A fresh start would be a bigger risk but for a possibly bigger payoff for us.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d love to see their take on something like Universal Paperclips or Dyson Sphere. So many homages have been built to Factorio; they could return the favor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>Given the sheer amount of work that went into Factorio, it feels like a waste to just park it and move onto something else; it has a solid base to work off of. Its performance and the amount of Stuff it simulates is amazing.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m thinking they may get inspired by some of the mods out there; there&amp;#x27;s a mod to go into space (build a factory inside of a spaceship) and land on other planets, for example. They could reach out to those and buy it, iirc that&amp;#x27;s what happened with some of the KSP features and addons as well.&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t mind if they&amp;#x27;d do something big with the enemies &amp;#x2F; monsters. Maybe introduce a new antagonist entirely.&lt;p&gt;Or a whole new class of sea and&amp;#x2F;or undersea base buildings, with unique resources that have to be launched up to the surface for your main base to process.&lt;p&gt;Or satellite bases too far away for even trains and the like, where you need long-term transports (container ships, ICBM&amp;#x27;s) to get stuff.</text></comment>
<story><title>Factorio Future Plans</title><url>https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-365</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hirundo</author><text>I love this team and their game and have ~1k hours in it. But I hope they soon choose to do a whole new game. Incremental improvements to their masterpiece is a suboptimal use of their talents. Just a few more bulbs in an already brilliant room. A fresh start would be a bigger risk but for a possibly bigger payoff for us.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d love to see their take on something like Universal Paperclips or Dyson Sphere. So many homages have been built to Factorio; they could return the favor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>Yes, but one-hit wonders are more common than repeat hits.  I&amp;#x27;m reminded of Notch&amp;#x27;s post-minecraft dreams, that space game that never got off the ground.  Or KSP.  Monkey Squad boiled out into nothing (KSP2 is a different team).  I think they should milk the cow they have by launching massive content expansions (Take my money!).&lt;p&gt;Imho Factorio&amp;#x27;s next step should be into 3d.  I don&amp;#x27;t mean a 3d game render, I mean factories biuld on different planes, or even a spherical planet.  There is a game out there (I shall not name) that is claiming to be a multi-planet 3d version of factorio.  People do want more.</text></comment>