nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 10 months ago'The factory must grow': Hundreds of Factorio players built a record-breaking 'God Factory' to produce an inconceivable 1 million science per minutewww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square67fedilinkarrow-up1433arrow-down110cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1423arrow-down1external-link'The factory must grow': Hundreds of Factorio players built a record-breaking 'God Factory' to produce an inconceivable 1 million science per minutewww.pcgamer.comnanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square67fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-squareDonjuanme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down2·10 months agoSeems like it could just scale, why would it take hundreds of players? For the joint computing power?
minus-square4am@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·10 months agoYeah they’re going way beyond what a single game session can handle. ~500GB of RAM combined!
minus-squareRai@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·10 months agoMy server has about a quarter of that! but an ancient shitty cpu and also it’s DDR3
minus-squareKilgore Trout@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoIt’s explained in the article. There’s a hard-coded limit on the rate of science you can produce.
Seems like it could just scale, why would it take hundreds of players? For the joint computing power?
Yeah they’re going way beyond what a single game session can handle. ~500GB of RAM combined!
My server has about a quarter of that!
but an ancient shitty cpu and also it’s DDR3
RTFA (yes)
It’s explained in the article. There’s a hard-coded limit on the rate of science you can produce.