But at this stage, the answer is no, essentially.

So this was an interesting question.

I don't think I've ever had this question before, but it has kind of come up in other ways.

They've asked, just out of curiosity, but would dedicated servers break the game?

Not as in the game crashing or anything like that, but what they're asking essentially is the point of the game is to optimize the speed of your factory.

But if you have a dedicated server, you could just let things run

24-7, you wake up the next morning and you've got the resources that you need, regardless of efficiency.

This kind of thing has been discussed before because the game, even if you don't have dedicated servers, you can just do that anyway.

And we've kind of just been okay with people doing that.

One of the reasons is because, yes, the point is efficiency, but if the way you want to play the game is to just let it run, that's fine.

The other thing is amassing large stockpiles of specific resources

You know, we'll get you somewhere, but it's not really the point of the game, and it's not really going to push you forward that much.

Like, you're still going to run into new things that you need to make, and then you're going to have to go make them anyway.

So it doesn't push you forward as much as it may seem that it would, stockpiling things, that is.

Yeah, really good question, I think.