There are 2m big spiders.

They had it coming.

I like the mental aspect it adds to the game. Some people play out the heartless capitalist, others build to avoid removing vegetation; some people automate meat farms, while others leave their animals on passive and leave them alone. It's a sandbox, it can be what you make it!

revs chainsaw with industrial intent

It is also just a small area of the planet

As a pioneer and property of Ficsit, clones have no feelings, now if you excuse me I must go, the factory must grow.

I do not “make the environment a mess”. Quite the opposite, I bring order to chaos.

Sure there are some counterinsurgent elements, but they’ve been terrorizing the population since before I got there. Most of the indigenous population welcomes me as a liberator, and is grateful that I am confronting the spider and stinger menace. Just the other day a local walked up to me lovingly, and we traded gifts.

I build them new roads to travel upon, rail transit. And while I do mine the planets natural resources, I do so sustainably, using techniques that can be maintained indefinitely. I’ve outlawed dirty coal in favour of clean nuclear power, and even recycle the nuclear waste.

In short, I am the best thing to ever happen to Massage-2(A-B)b, it feels fantastic.

I don't particularly care.

Ever play a game (GTA, Hitman, Prototype) and get the thought of "I'm going to be an absolute menace and just do the most evil stuff that I'd never do in real life" because at the end of the day it's just a game?

I will also raise the point: Can't have culture if there ain't any intelligent life there.

As long as it’s not my world, it’s fine

Also, I'm not sure they are "their culture's artifacts".. the alien artifacts kinda feel like they were left there by a third party visitor....

I feel this is a bad joke in Satisfactory. Creatures respawn and resource nodes are infinite. Machines and buildings are shiny and clean, not industrial and dirty. The only pollution we create is depleted fuel cells, which don't have any adverse effects on the world, they only have an adverse effect on the player.

In Factorio, we DESTROY the world. We expand ever-outwards as we strip-mine existing deposits dry. The forests that we don't clear-cut to make way for the factory, die from its pollution. Smog thickens the air and toxins tint the oceans. We create an entire military-industrial complex to exterminate the local fauna with extreme prejudice and cruel efficiency. Everything that is natural must be harvested, landfilled, paved, and covered in solar panels. Forget about wildlife, we turn entire seas into nuclear power plants; and we tear down cliffs, mountains and plateaus just so we can drive in a straight line once or twice.

Satisfactory feels like it's more about working with the world than working to tame it. We aspire to create not just big factories, but aesthetically pleasing ones. As such, I think it would be wise move for Coffee Stain to lean away from the destructive industrialism trope and instead lean into tropes with a more hopeful tone, like eco-urbanism.

couldn't hear you over the sound of my nobelisks blaizing a trail of progress making way for the unstoppable march of industrialization

My personal theory is the Project Assembly is an orbital De-Terraformer that will scrub the planet's biosphere, allowing the rapid, uninhibited exploitation of the planet's mineral resources at a planetary scale.

Strip it's natural resources? I've been mining these nodes for years and they show no sign of stopping!

I think that putting some of the best resources in some of the prettiest natural settings is completely intentional. I'm still hoping for a "screw the company over" option in 1.0.

Just satisfying

In the words of dungeon keeper, It's good to be bad

The mug is totally worth it though ☕️🤗

There did not appear to be any sentient life. Just animals and unexplained artifacts from a presumably long dead civilization.

I don't get paid to feel. In fact I don't get paid at all.

It’s a very nice mug.

I am creating beauty! The machines are perfection made manifest! Nature is messy, uncontrollable, and unpredictable but the machines... they are sublime. The machines are clean, efficient, consistent.

How does it feel to eradicate life and replace it with the factories? It feels. Beautiful.

The factory must grow. It will grow. Glory to the factory, glory to efficiency, GLORY TO FICSIT

Good. As someone that cares a lot about environmental stuff IRL. It's oddly satisfying role playing as the Once-ler with no consequences.

I can't be a villain if there isn't a hero to tell the story.

Show me the hero.

I totally disagree… I kill cute and helpful animals too

Basically you are completely right. We display the most vile and definitely a core trait of humanity in this game.

BUT it's just a game so i dont tend to think about such things in games. It's enough that I'm being confronted with this in my everyday life. I play games to have said fun. Nothing more, nothing less.

And that was only a neutral statement. I do not intend to criticise you in any way with that.

Pretty chill tbh

You want to google "Satisfactory Rap" for my answer.

You mean...being humans?

HARVEST

Are we... The baddies?

Welp i just doing my damn job!

I twirl my moustache and cackle knowingly.

As an aside, why the frick is my autocorrect turning moustache into moist ache. It didn’t like disingenuine either. What is this horseshoe.

Despite Jace's repeated advice to the contrary, I always try my best to preserve the environment where possible, and I don't kill the wildlife. I even paint my buildings, belts, extractors etc a variety of different shades to make them blend in to their environment as much as I can.
As for the culture and the artifacts, I see no evidence of the first, and no evidence that the second have any relation to the animal life now present on the world. Nothing on that world is ever gonna have a space program. Anything that might once have, doesn't appear to be a concern any more.

Given the remarkable number of very beautiful biomes in such a small area, I think the planet might make more money as a resort world (dangerous wildlife notwithstanding), but Ficsit have access to data I don't, so we'll stick with their plan.

Particle accelerator goes BRRRRRRRRR

It's our job as FICsit employee. Comply!

Irrelevant. Production must expand. Your morality will not feed the factory.

You are your own hero. Don't let xeno scum tell you otherwise.

Capitalist? Who here is getting paid? Comrade, we are not capitalists, we do this for the motherland.

Ficsit does not pay employees to care or share empathy for the local wildlife or fauna. I don't want a dock in pay, so I suppress the feelings.

*Something something moral relativism *

Ehhh, about the same as being one on this world

So what you sayin is we play as a human haha

In another factory game you create pollution that slowly kills all the trees. Also pisses off the locals and they start to attack you in waves.

Metal is perfection

Risk of rain has already prepped me for this

But hey we don't kill the wildlife that we do find cute, so it's OK.

We‘re not the villain, just expendable henchwomen

For the planet the day the pioneer graced it's surface may have been the worst day of it's existence. But for me it was tuesday.

I mean... There I am just affecting a small island on what is otherwise a huge planet. And I am running with renewable resources and try to limit waste.

Where as in real life, I am part of a settlement that arrived on Earth ~3 million years ago and is about to destroy the environment on a global scale and pose a direct threat to almost every single living creature.

So what?

Its a game, that was designed to do just that. Come in and suck resources out as fast as possible. Gain new tools, weapons, and skills. Do it some more.

Big deal. Play the game. If you want to be the good guy, well - base building, survival, and Zombie games are not your salvation. Toughen up, or die. The math is simple; You or them.

I chose me.

If not for profit then just because I can.

For precisely those reasons, I have this mega project where I intend to build underground, under the map, one big map-wide factory that extracts every resource with minimal factory footprint for the extraction sites i.e. the nodes that are above ground. So, for the map, you would only be able to see small concrete structures enveloping every single resource node and well and nothing else built on the land. I do intend to build a big tower in the major hole that is located somewhat in the middle of the map, close to the green fields. Any nuclear power plant and radioactivity will be dealt with at only one map border corner outside of the land of the map and even though just visually, it will be encesed in thick concrete walls to 'reduce' radioactivity effects. Yes, all resources will be extracted and artifacts recovered but the wildlife and the nature will remain untouched and in balance. Only predators at resource nodes will be exterminated. Pest control.

What’s morally evil about using natural resources, especially when said resources are infinite? Also, there’s no one there, so we’re not taking away from anyone’s culture.

Less bad than in Factorio. There you can measure the pollution. In Satisfactory, minus the plutonium waste, the environmental impact you're having is rather small comparatively speaking.

Ficsit personnel are trained to harvest materials on planets with minimal impact effect to the planet itself. FICSIT is not responsible for any I’ll advised violence towards FICSIT personnel

How bad can I possibly be?

i feel like adding a new nuclear reactor

I know and i love it

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I assumed it was a metaphor for capitalism. Do you have a choice? Based on the whole "you're part of 3 of 74 who have survived re entry..."

That does not sound like you're really there because you WANT to.

Most of us work for the very same corporations that are destroying our world because it's that our starve to death.

It made me learn that ecoterrorism isn’t chopping down a bunch of trees and polluting the atmosphere

I mean it's not that much of a difference to what we humans do and always did...

We're the villains on our own planet. Just seems par for the course.

A true villain will never see themselves as a villain. They always perceive themselves as doing what is right.

Ok.. what's yur point? There are the Conquered and the Conquerors. Which one do you want to be?

Feels like efficiency.

I am not the villain.. I am the god.

Getting rid of toxic waste can involve flinging the cute animals into the void with a can in their inventory...

(Note, the cute animals are quite a bit larger than you might expect, at least on April 1)

There's a game on Steam which is the opposite of this environmental crime simulator, but I don't know if I can mention it here.

It's just the way the gameplay is set up.

Yea but that lil cart pretty sick tho

Ficsit has not told me to feel. I only do what I'm told.

COMPLY

Feels good to exploit a planet

There's a reason I named my first save Ecological Devastation

YOU're the alien.

I think the things that generate gas and possibly the spiders are also invaders.

There used to be a lot more water on the planet too. Someone exploited it before you.

You may end up being the hero of the world.

I wish I could have pets to the point of a zoo 😅

FicSit are the bad guys. We are just a worker.

I like to think of it like our ancestors did. Taming the Savages.

Pesky wildlife, they didn't pay for the permit to harvest this planets recourses. And they are technically also this planets recourses. So really, I don't see a problem here.

It feels productive!

The planet shouldn't have so many usable resources if it didn't want to exploited. Progress stops for no alien or man.

Imagine 1 wip sphere spwawns 20 small stingers and 5 alpha stingers, and you have dozens of spheres in your chest xD

I hear ya

Factory must grow

Satisfying.

I definitely know I am, I was playing with my friend and without thinking said to him, "when do you think they will add pollution to the game?"

I can't hear you over the smog from my coal plant.

You had me at Boombox!

and I enjoy it.

Are you kidding me? The alien fauna that attack me are the ones that die. I wouldn't give a shit about them if they let me be. The mega-Corp that sent me is the villain. I just work for them.

But they gave me a mug

this is fine

dick

Hey man I don't think thinking was a part of my FICSITcontractual obligations.

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I thought all that the light touches (and the caves below) are mine to do with as FICSIT demands.

You worded the whole killing anything not cute part as if the little goddamn birds don't get in the way of construction and that I don't nuke them on sight.

If you don't like the game you don't have to play it. I like satisfactory so I play it!

What if the fart rocks ARE the dominant species, and the clouds are just them talking to one another? Shit's weird on other planets I reckon.