May 15th, 2020 Q&A
Q&A: Would Dedicated Servers break the game?
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This question was possibly duplicated with a more recent answer: October 26th, 2021 Update 5 Launch Stream and Patch Notes Video Q&A: Dedicated Servers? https://youtube.com/embed/Rumqu_lyapg?autoplay=1&start=1873&end=2084
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this was an interesting question III 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 with 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 can just let things run 24/7 you wake up the next morning and you've got that 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 a massive amassing large stockpiles of specific resources you know will get you somewhere but it's not really the point of the game and it's not really gonna push you forward that much like you're still gonna run into new things that you need to make and then you're gonna have to go make them anyway so it doesn't push you forward as much as it may seem that it would stop piling things that is yeah really good question I think are we planning to release a