• Moneo@lemmy.world
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    I’m assuming you’ve played it, but for others reading this: It’s more than just bonus content, the base game has been reworked to integrate the planets into the progression.

    A Space Age playthrough is different than a base game playthrough basically from the get go.

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      It’s worth noting that the various QOL changes and changes to the base buildings like inserters are included in the 2.0 update and are free.

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        It’s different. They both have pros and cons.

        The creator of Space Exploration was hired before they started the Space Age DLC, so a lot of lessons learned from it are implemented in Space Age.

        There are tons of great overhaul mods to play though. I’d probably play something else before doing a Space Exploration run because they do share so many similarities it might be better to leave some space between playing them.

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          And also important is, that space exploration is insanely big. You can prepare to spend about 300h with it(of course depending on how much experience you have).

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            Yeah this is why I’ve never tried it. When I was still on reddit the way people talked about space age turned me off. It seemed like a massive time sink that was more about upping the logistics to the nth degree than about new mechanics.

            I really like space age so far because of how differently I’ve had to play on the first planet I landed on.