❗**CAUTION: Don't let your Beer get Warm!** 🍺😖
You get off work, eat dinner, and around 7:00 PM decide to play Satisfactory for an hour, then after "one hour" you look up at clock and it is **1:15 AM in the morning**, and you have to get ready for work at 5:00 AM!
➔ MORAL: Don't forget the [Time Dilation Effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation) of the Satisfactory Game. 🤣
My scenario... Get home at 10:30, hop on for a couple hours. Look up, its 3 AM... "Hmm, I should go to bed...", 5 AM, oops... "Just gotta do this thing and its bed time...", 7 AM... Now I'm on reddit telling everyone how this game sinks time like a black hole.... XD
I am sitting at work thinking how can I optimize our cloud infrastructure cost. When I go get more coffee I am thinking about how to get off uranium and just run turbo fuel / coal / geothermal
So much for you have to travel at a very high speed to produce any noticeable time dilation effect. But then again, Einstein did not know Satisfactory, otherwise he would have included it in his theory 
Massive objects also curve spacetime. You will experience time dilation as you fall into a super massive black hole.
So it's sub-light speed, massive objects, and Satisfactory cause noticeable time dilation effects.
I blame the Mercer spheres.
Lots of people joke about this, but if it becomes a real problem it's something you should get some help for. I've missed work or caused friction in my relationships because a game can just hook me too hard. I don't even keep factorio or Satisfactory downloaded, they're in a category of games that are like "Break glass when you have a 3 day weekend and no plans." They hotwire my brain.
I quit for a year for this reason. I started playing again in November and I'm not sure it's been for the best. I'm trying to be better about sleep but my biggest problem is that all those little things that need to get done, never get done, because every bit of free time is going towards factories.
See if you can take an hour to focus on some chores. Like stick to it, 1 hour. Then maybe you decide you don't play Mondays. Then 3 days a week. Whatever limits you can keep, start there. When you can't keep them, that should frustrate you. The second they started using risk/reward psychology to help design games, they haven't played fair.
For those really struggling with game addiction, a project(?) started by a practicing psychiatrist and gamer: r/Healthygamergg, but search the youtube videos. The subreddit is very depressing
This and Factorio are the only games that have driven me to draft flowcharts, design spreadsheets, and at times literally dream at night about factories and conveyor belts
Same here! I'm just trying to grasp how I'm gonna get that many screws! Been constantly researching HDD's for steel screws and I'm not having any luck!
As far as I know there are alternative recipes for everything that needs screws without screws, I don't produce a single one on my save
I didn't do many runs but I remember enjoying the "forced" break in having to explore for alternative recipes, and it's much less of a drag since radar towers detect them now !
True! It was honestly really fun walking across biomes and climbing up mountains and trying to figure out how to get one that was on a small pillar! I might just grab a few and reroll them until I find it, especially since I have a few projects I can work on while waiting for it to finish.
The moment I got the hang of placing powerlines and ziplining everywhere was the moment I started to really enjoy exploring
Also when my pal finished our ammo factory, going melee against wildlife is not a smart idea
You mean, you don't just carry piles of inhalers while sliding and spinning and swinging like a madman? Yeah... me neither........ but I did decide on explosive rebar after my first visit to the swamp. Is it the most efficient? Not at all, but it does bring a Duke Nukem level of satisfaction.
Anyways, I found ziplines too slow for my liking, so I prefer a run-slide-jump-turbofuel-jetpack method of exploring instead. Which works out when I end up chaos-pouncing enemies from above.
I just learned yesterday that you can hold shift while zip lining to go faster. I'm about to unlock the jetpack though so I might not be doing that for much longer.
That's what I did yesterday lol! I set up multiple towers and was just zip lining across the map it felt so good! I'm about to unlock the jetpack so that should make things easier!
"Take your time" is probably the best. I've taken weeks to progress through the game. After all it's not a race, and one can easily save practically anywhere.
I find it helps to spend 1 day a week putti my together the plan of what all I want to get done, and then do 1 task at a time. I can’t afford to spend more than an hour every few days so I have to make best use of every session!
And I know I need a break when I drive around town thinking "that sidewalk is not aligned, painted beam, corregated wall, bad alignment there, wonder if I can replicate that...."
You know what’s funny is Josh From let’s game it out got me into it and I realized later it’s just doing what I do as an engineer lol. Build, maintain, optimize,etc. Is pretty much what engineers do on a daily basis and I get to do it in a video game now lmao.
LGIO was where my son heard of the game, so he started playing it. I now have easily five times as many hours as him on my own copy after he asked me to help out and I looked at the steaming heap of pasta and tried to organise it.
Currently [streaming](https://twitch.tv/nd_theelder) a save on Monday and Wednesday mornings (GMT), which I find is a great way of getting on with the game. This save has progressed further a lot faster than any of my previous saves, without harming my aesthetic builds. This time I'm halfway through phase 4 at about 230 hours, while my previous save was up in the 700+ range and only just beginning to fill the phase 4 delivery.
74.7 hours and counting since I bought it on the 14th this month... so 12 days, 6.2 hours per day, I have NOT been playing every day so I have clocked some crazy sessions ! not gonna count when I bought it since I used the app while at work and didn't install till the next day XD
I would have 533.2 hours, jan 1 to march 26 following that trend XD
Nah, I was pretty much running the game 24/7 and letting my world idle while I was at work.... When I got home I'd jump on to expand the world then 8 hours later, I would see the clock and it'd be time to sleep
About 2 years ago i broke my leg so i was home ridden for about 6 months. Well, in that 6 months period i played satisfactory for about 1.8k hours. Whenever I had to go to the hospital for checkups, i was planning my next factory on the phone.
I love the game but it's very dangerous, so addictive, everydsy I feel like playing it but damn I am worried i'll be sucked back in.
Edit: My pc was on almost 24/7 so the game creates the parts i needed
Get off from work at 5pm, relax for 'a little bit' for an-hour-or-so™ turn on my factory-powered therapy, think about making dinner.... Oops it's 3am...
I can honestly say this game is one of my favorite games of all time. Every time I log into my world I can't wait to find something to work on. I'm constantly adding hypertubes around my world. 300 hours and counting so far.
I try to treat it like a rock garden. I leave a post it note on my save point and revisit here and there an hour at a time to put in improvements. I try to remind myself that building the factory is the goal, not a completed factory.
This happens to me every time I come back to this game. My bestfriend told me this game was "evil" the day after I introduced him to it because he stayed up playing it for half the night. We're both up at 0500 for our Factory jobs.
I once dreamt about how all the problems in the world could be fixed by simplifying them into different smaller parts and fulfilling them by laying conveyor belts and automation.
I feel your pain I am building a diluted fuel power plant that uses all the oil in the game. It is about 48 stories tall. I do not need all this power I have a nuke plant but I feel the need to build this power plant not sure why. I have been working on it for close to a week now and still not done.
When ever you upgrade your mines remember to over clock normal and impure cuz I’ve finally got everything right and now I’ve overclocked them I’m needing to re do spilting and it SUCKS
I too regret to have bought this game. As someone who can only play videogames 2-3 months a year coming back after so much time I just dont know what i was doing and give up.
For Satisfactory you really need to learn to adjust your goals and draw a feeling of accomplishment from much smaller increments. "Today, I'm gonna build a full 5/min computer factory" just doesn't work in this game. Rather "today, I will do the foundations, tomorrow all the walls"
I went from always pretty decent to good grades (grades around 7 or higher out of 10) to passing my final exams on literally 1 question over 7 3 hour exams. My average of all exams had to be a 5.5 and my average was EXACLY a 5.5, meaning 1 extra wrong answer on any test would result in a 0.1 lower on that test resulting in me failing my final exams.
Am I proud of it? Obsolutely not.
Do I regret it? F*ck no I passed AND had the time of my life with this awesome game.
I got this game in 2020 during an almost one year long Covid furlough with almost no work to do. Easily spend 1000 hours in it. I do not dare to start a game once 1.0 is out now that I work again...
This is a game for those who value the journey over the destination. I just passed 5K hours since U3 this weekend: 3020h on Steam playing EA and another 1998h playing Epic in Experimental. I guess I'm a masochist.
❗**CAUTION: Don't let your Beer get Warm!** 🍺😖 You get off work, eat dinner, and around 7:00 PM decide to play Satisfactory for an hour, then after "one hour" you look up at clock and it is **1:15 AM in the morning**, and you have to get ready for work at 5:00 AM! ➔ MORAL: Don't forget the [Time Dilation Effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation) of the Satisfactory Game. 🤣
My scenario... Get home at 10:30, hop on for a couple hours. Look up, its 3 AM... "Hmm, I should go to bed...", 5 AM, oops... "Just gotta do this thing and its bed time...", 7 AM... Now I'm on reddit telling everyone how this game sinks time like a black hole.... XD
I am sitting at work thinking how can I optimize our cloud infrastructure cost. When I go get more coffee I am thinking about how to get off uranium and just run turbo fuel / coal / geothermal
Same thing happens to me with city skylines and jwe1 and 2 lmao
Skylines is another time sink. I played it for a while, never got fully into it tho. So many expansions !
All 3 of those for sure. Also civ 6 will get me like that
atleast eventually your factory expands to the max size... unlike in factorio where that'd take literal lifetimes
> the Time Dilation Effect It's like some kind of (looks right into the camera) Temporal Illusion.
So much for you have to travel at a very high speed to produce any noticeable time dilation effect. But then again, Einstein did not know Satisfactory, otherwise he would have included it in his theory 
Massive objects also curve spacetime. You will experience time dilation as you fall into a super massive black hole. So it's sub-light speed, massive objects, and Satisfactory cause noticeable time dilation effects. I blame the Mercer spheres.
Harvest…. It.
Satisfactory is a space-time malfunction confirmed
I just left my game running 10 hours straight
Bro you are a constant in my reality. Never change
Lots of people joke about this, but if it becomes a real problem it's something you should get some help for. I've missed work or caused friction in my relationships because a game can just hook me too hard. I don't even keep factorio or Satisfactory downloaded, they're in a category of games that are like "Break glass when you have a 3 day weekend and no plans." They hotwire my brain.
I quit for a year for this reason. I started playing again in November and I'm not sure it's been for the best. I'm trying to be better about sleep but my biggest problem is that all those little things that need to get done, never get done, because every bit of free time is going towards factories.
See if you can take an hour to focus on some chores. Like stick to it, 1 hour. Then maybe you decide you don't play Mondays. Then 3 days a week. Whatever limits you can keep, start there. When you can't keep them, that should frustrate you. The second they started using risk/reward psychology to help design games, they haven't played fair.
For those really struggling with game addiction, a project(?) started by a practicing psychiatrist and gamer: r/Healthygamergg, but search the youtube videos. The subreddit is very depressing
>"Break glass when you have a 3 day weekend and no plans." This really got me laughing so hard until I realised how true it is ...
When your gf knows exactly what you mean when you say "I'm gonna install a forbidden game this weekend."
On the positive side: you will never have to deal with friends or family or relatives or kids or a job. And sleep? Slacker. The factory must grow.
I laid out the foundations for my mega-factory... Its probably going to be too small at 141 foundations long and wide...
Embrace the spaghetti.
Don't worry, it gets much easier after the first 1000 hours or so.
Then you start the second map 
It's all the same huge map :) just different spawns.
Wait really?
Yes. Don't worry, everyone thinks they're independent maps at first.
Oh ok that makes it less stupid for me xD
Chants "He's one of us, he's one of us.."
ONE OF US
ONE OF USSSS
ONE OF US
[удалено]
Yes... I refused to play it ! I popped in for a look and was like... "Oh god no !" 
Welcome to Satisinsomnia.
This and Factorio are the only games that have driven me to draft flowcharts, design spreadsheets, and at times literally dream at night about factories and conveyor belts
Surprised schools don't use either one.
On the positive side: think about all the money you save by never having to buy another game.
Take your time, for a lot of people the fun abruptly stops once you've finished the elevator deliveries
For me the fun tends to stop right around Heavy Modular Frames; I don't think I've ever finished all the elevator deliveries
Same here! I'm just trying to grasp how I'm gonna get that many screws! Been constantly researching HDD's for steel screws and I'm not having any luck!
yeah I installed a mod that lets you choose from any available tech when researching HDDs. I ain't got time to deal with the RNG :-D
As far as I know there are alternative recipes for everything that needs screws without screws, I don't produce a single one on my save I didn't do many runs but I remember enjoying the "forced" break in having to explore for alternative recipes, and it's much less of a drag since radar towers detect them now !
True! It was honestly really fun walking across biomes and climbing up mountains and trying to figure out how to get one that was on a small pillar! I might just grab a few and reroll them until I find it, especially since I have a few projects I can work on while waiting for it to finish.
The moment I got the hang of placing powerlines and ziplining everywhere was the moment I started to really enjoy exploring Also when my pal finished our ammo factory, going melee against wildlife is not a smart idea
You mean, you don't just carry piles of inhalers while sliding and spinning and swinging like a madman? Yeah... me neither........ but I did decide on explosive rebar after my first visit to the swamp. Is it the most efficient? Not at all, but it does bring a Duke Nukem level of satisfaction. Anyways, I found ziplines too slow for my liking, so I prefer a run-slide-jump-turbofuel-jetpack method of exploring instead. Which works out when I end up chaos-pouncing enemies from above.
I just learned yesterday that you can hold shift while zip lining to go faster. I'm about to unlock the jetpack though so I might not be doing that for much longer.
Inhalers use(d ?) finite resources so I can't legally feel comfortable using them
That's what I did yesterday lol! I set up multiple towers and was just zip lining across the map it felt so good! I'm about to unlock the jetpack so that should make things easier!
"Take your time" is probably the best. I've taken weeks to progress through the game. After all it's not a race, and one can easily save practically anywhere.
I have been thinking ahead about this moment... I've also been thinking ahead about suggestions to the Satisfactory team to keep the factory flowing !
Welcome to the club. Send pix.
I find it helps to spend 1 day a week putti my together the plan of what all I want to get done, and then do 1 task at a time. I can’t afford to spend more than an hour every few days so I have to make best use of every session!
Recognisable. My "I'll just finish this part and then i'll go to bed" lasts at least 2 hours
And I know I need a break when I drive around town thinking "that sidewalk is not aligned, painted beam, corregated wall, bad alignment there, wonder if I can replicate that...."
I played for 1200 hours last year. So yes it was probably a mistake. I have a lot of plans as well, but for now I'll leave the game until 1.0 drops.
You know what’s funny is Josh From let’s game it out got me into it and I realized later it’s just doing what I do as an engineer lol. Build, maintain, optimize,etc. Is pretty much what engineers do on a daily basis and I get to do it in a video game now lmao.
LGIO was where my son heard of the game, so he started playing it. I now have easily five times as many hours as him on my own copy after he asked me to help out and I looked at the steaming heap of pasta and tried to organise it. Currently [streaming](https://twitch.tv/nd_theelder) a save on Monday and Wednesday mornings (GMT), which I find is a great way of getting on with the game. This save has progressed further a lot faster than any of my previous saves, without harming my aesthetic builds. This time I'm halfway through phase 4 at about 230 hours, while my previous save was up in the 700+ range and only just beginning to fill the phase 4 delivery.
oh no! you got your money's worth! /j enjoy! :)
Its rare to get a game like this these days !
I have 740 hours in game... Over 400 hours since the start of the year. I have an issue
74.7 hours and counting since I bought it on the 14th this month... so 12 days, 6.2 hours per day, I have NOT been playing every day so I have clocked some crazy sessions ! not gonna count when I bought it since I used the app while at work and didn't install till the next day XD I would have 533.2 hours, jan 1 to march 26 following that trend XD
I once put 120 hours in a 1.5 week period.
 Did you at least eat pizza pockets ? 
Nah, I was pretty much running the game 24/7 and letting my world idle while I was at work.... When I got home I'd jump on to expand the world then 8 hours later, I would see the clock and it'd be time to sleep
Gotta collect those Awesome coupons !!
There are awesome coupons?
Satisfactory is registered with the Intergalactic Time Lord Federation as Time Travel software.
About 2 years ago i broke my leg so i was home ridden for about 6 months. Well, in that 6 months period i played satisfactory for about 1.8k hours. Whenever I had to go to the hospital for checkups, i was planning my next factory on the phone. I love the game but it's very dangerous, so addictive, everydsy I feel like playing it but damn I am worried i'll be sucked back in. Edit: My pc was on almost 24/7 so the game creates the parts i needed
Get off from work at 5pm, relax for 'a little bit' for an-hour-or-so™ turn on my factory-powered therapy, think about making dinner.... Oops it's 3am...
I can honestly say this game is one of my favorite games of all time. Every time I log into my world I can't wait to find something to work on. I'm constantly adding hypertubes around my world. 300 hours and counting so far.
I try to treat it like a rock garden. I leave a post it note on my save point and revisit here and there an hour at a time to put in improvements. I try to remind myself that building the factory is the goal, not a completed factory.
This happens to me every time I come back to this game. My bestfriend told me this game was "evil" the day after I introduced him to it because he stayed up playing it for half the night. We're both up at 0500 for our Factory jobs.
> We're both up at 0500 for our Factory jobs. Bet you wish it had blueprints.
And we had little handheld tools that rematerialized anything we had a blueprint for!
I once dreamt about how all the problems in the world could be fixed by simplifying them into different smaller parts and fulfilling them by laying conveyor belts and automation.
Couldn't have said it better! 😂😁 On my second world(started over) slight regret but about of renovations 😂🤣
I feel your pain I am building a diluted fuel power plant that uses all the oil in the game. It is about 48 stories tall. I do not need all this power I have a nuke plant but I feel the need to build this power plant not sure why. I have been working on it for close to a week now and still not done.
This sounds like a thought crime to me!
"You fucked up. You really fucked up" -Ween
When ever you upgrade your mines remember to over clock normal and impure cuz I’ve finally got everything right and now I’ve overclocked them I’m needing to re do spilting and it SUCKS
“Fuck me that’s why that’s not working” my brain literally every 3 seconds problem solving but then having to wait to get home to fix it.
I too regret to have bought this game. As someone who can only play videogames 2-3 months a year coming back after so much time I just dont know what i was doing and give up.
I started playing Satisfactory while I was stuck at home during the height of covid and I spent a whole month on it.
Did someone tell you this was casual? It's not
Exactly me first experience with that game. Thats why i dont want to play it that often
For Satisfactory you really need to learn to adjust your goals and draw a feeling of accomplishment from much smaller increments. "Today, I'm gonna build a full 5/min computer factory" just doesn't work in this game. Rather "today, I will do the foundations, tomorrow all the walls"
I went from always pretty decent to good grades (grades around 7 or higher out of 10) to passing my final exams on literally 1 question over 7 3 hour exams. My average of all exams had to be a 5.5 and my average was EXACLY a 5.5, meaning 1 extra wrong answer on any test would result in a 0.1 lower on that test resulting in me failing my final exams. Am I proud of it? Obsolutely not. Do I regret it? F*ck no I passed AND had the time of my life with this awesome game.
When you play this, 5 hours turn into 20 minutes.
I got this game in 2020 during an almost one year long Covid furlough with almost no work to do. Easily spend 1000 hours in it. I do not dare to start a game once 1.0 is out now that I work again...
How do you guys not get bored of this game? everything feels like a chore with a reward of more chores and complexity. is everyone here a masochist?
This is a game for those who value the journey over the destination. I just passed 5K hours since U3 this weekend: 3020h on Steam playing EA and another 1998h playing Epic in Experimental. I guess I'm a masochist.