(With Spaced Out, an excellent expansion)
With these kinds of games (by which I mean Factorios, etc) I always follow the same pattern of deep engrossment for several days, where it's one of the primary things I'm thinking about even when I'm not playing it... and then complete burnout somewhere solidly in what turns out to be the mid-game. It's not even that I come across game-ending problems with my base, it's just that my brain has had its fill of thinking about this kind of stuff and demands to move on. Then I may come back later (especially if there have been updates) and follow the same procedure from the beginning, usually burning out just a little further along progression than last time.
I'm having fun, though, and that's what counts!
With these kinds of games (by which I mean Factorios, etc) I always follow the same pattern of deep engrossment for several days, where it's one of the primary things I'm thinking about even when I'm not playing it... and then complete burnout somewhere solidly in what turns out to be the mid-game. It's not even that I come across game-ending problems with my base, it's just that my brain has had its fill of thinking about this kind of stuff and demands to move on. Then I may come back later (especially if there have been updates) and follow the same procedure from the beginning, usually burning out just a little further along progression than last time.
I'm having fun, though, and that's what counts!