June 29th, 2021 Livestream

Snutt & Jace Talk: Community Spreadsheets for Satisfactory

https://youtu.be/n_4mmcc9w-k

Topics

• Community

Transcript

no notepad gang checking in nice pen and paper like I've seen I've seen some really impressive excel sheets where people have like set it up so that they can just be like okay if I want this and then it shows it in like this the spreadsheet and like you need to do this this and it's like super impressive like some of these excel sheets are more impressive than the game we've made yeah some of the excel spreadsheets are crazy so so like I guess it's also fun that there's an aspect of I think game designers always have this thing where like if a game designer hears that someone like oh I actually pulled out a pen and paper like back in the old days they go like yes yeah it's no it is a good thing right it's like it's it's sometimes playing the game without playing the game you know like like the people who sit there and you know they want to get real deep and make a nice excel spreadsheet that works just for them you know like that's that's part of the fun right, I think adding like a calculator might make it too streamlined maybe I don't know yeah or or to force everyone to play the game the same way yeah you know what I mean yeah yeah that's true I feel like I feel like everyone's gonna have efficient setups then but and I don't think I don't think the the goal necessarily should be that we should make the game in a way that everyone is utilizing the map as best as possible because kind of the point is that everyone can do things their own way so I think also, there's been a couple of threads where people like try and figure out like the best setup for different things and there's like no real best way to do everything in the game and I think every time mark sees one of those threads he's like suckers you're fooled