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I've started a new Space Age game, too!

With the understanding that you can regularly leave Factorio running overnight or even all week to build up resources, how many hours have other hard core Factorio players logged?

My Factorio play time is up to 6,573.2 hours at this point.

I love Factorio for the same reasons I love SimCity. 6,573.2 hours seems like a lot of time, but I've probably logged even more hours playing SimCity since 1989. (But much of that was actual productive time porting it to various platforms, testing, debugging, and optimizing the actual source code and user interface, etc.)

https://github.com/SimHacker/MicropolisCore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fVl4dGwUrA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8snnqQSI0GE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsxoZXaYJSk




> My Factorio play time is up to 6,573.2 hours at this point.

I habitually translate "X thousands of hours" into "full time employment years".

You've been playing Factorio as the equivalent of a full time job, for 3 years and 3 months.

[Edit: Many of those hours were probably background farming, so not a direct comparison.]


I read about a half hour every day. That means I probably clocked some 6 thousand hours in my lifetime. Imagine all the time I could’ve invested in playing the rat race more, in those wasted 3 years of books :(


I am absolutely not suggesting that "full-time employment years" are better allocated to work/job/employment.

Just modeling what we (US, 40hrs/wk and 50wks/yr) consider a "full-time" commitment to any task/activity.




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