'The factory must grow': Hundreds of Factorio players built a record-breaking 'God Factory' to produce an inconceivable 1 million science per minute

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'The factory must grow': Hundreds of Factorio players built a record-breaking 'God Factory' to produce an inconceivable 1 million science per minute
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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

It's explained in the article. There's a hard-coded limit on the rate of science you can produce.

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