Factorio: Space Age Review (Sed)
Negative reviewers be like "Space Age forces you to do things the way devs want" but literally there's only one way to do things always. You can only make science packs in assemblers. You can only make iron plates with iron ore in a furnace. You can only fuel nuclear reactors with uranium fuel cells.
What is there to complain about? Space age poses as a logistic problem and asks you to give the solution. Maybe you're frustrated because you do not understand the problem yet, but sleep on it and come back the next day. It's like maths. I've seen people complain about the tiniest things and leaving a negative review because of it.
If you could build a factory on other planets like in the original one then what the hell even is the point of having different planets? Clearly these people missed out on the FFFs that have been released weekly.
New challenges, new foes, new goals. I like Space Age because it makes me use my brain to solve problems I've never had before. It makes me stop using the same designs and start expanding the factory in ways I never knew it could grow.
Quality is optional and nobody is forcing you to use it.
Gleba may suck at first but that is because you are trying to play the same way as you would in Nauvis. Why would you buy Space Age if you just wanted to play 1.1 on different planets? There's Alien Biomes mod for that if you want variety.
The research tree being rearranged is absolutely necessary to maintain game balance and to also make it feel earned. After all, getting extremely powerful equipment for doing basically nothing but running your extremely inefficient spaghetti factory for 10 hours doesn't sound very rewarding to me.
Space Platforms are weird and new and scary, I know, but you're smart enough to face and solve this logistical problem.
There's a million ways you can design your space platform and if you tell me that you're always forced to do one design to solve it then let me remind you that there's only one way to make stone bricks and that is to put the stone into a furnace.
Yes, this review is basically just me ranting about people complaining about the DLC.