February 4th, 2022
Jace Talk: No Factory Maintenance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4LlorYbVV0&t=264
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So the second thing that we're not adding to Satisfactory is going to be factory maintenance.
And you'll probably start to see a lot of parallels between the reasons for this compared with what I've already said with base defense.
So factory maintenance being that your buildings, maybe they shut down or you need to clean up your factory or repair certain buildings for various reasons.
And again, it's the same kind of thing where we want things to be chill.
We want people to play at their own speed.
And we don't really want the world to impose itself on you.
Rather, you seek out the things that you want to do yourself.
And we think that buildings sort of just periodically breaking down or needing maintenance is not really something that will sort of help in that regard.
People do bring up an interesting like solution for this because we've talked about this before.
But people do bring up an interesting solution where they're thinking, you know, well, wouldn't it be cool if you have little AI robots that run around and maintain your buildings for you, your factory for you to make sure, you know, things can keep up and running so you don't have to keep running back and forth.
And I mean, that's certainly a really cool idea.
I like the idea of like little robots in your factory, but it really does seem that we're just going to be
like justifying that we're going to be adding a really tedious aspect of the game, which is your factory buildings breaking down just so we can add cool robots.
So what we would sort of say is like, well, would it just be better if the cool thing is like robots?
What if we just like found a reason to add little robots in the game?
So I don't know, like
Do you think little robots running around your factory would be fun?
I think it would be fun.
I just don't know what they would do, though.
So if you have any ideas for what little labor robots could do, by all means, let us know in the comments below.