nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 years 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-square62linkfedilinkarrow-up1434arrow-down110cross-posted to: pcgaming
arrow-up1424arrow-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 · 2 years agomessage-square62linkfedilinkcross-posted to: pcgaming
minus-squareDonjuanmelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down2·2 years agoSeems like it could just scale, why would it take hundreds of players? For the joint computing power?
minus-square4am@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 years agoYeah they’re going way beyond what a single game session can handle. ~500GB of RAM combined!
minus-squareRai@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 years agoMy server has about a quarter of that! but an ancient shitty cpu and also it’s DDR3
minus-squareKilgore Trout@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years 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.