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KOTOVOD Worker #42: Global Progression for Progressive Factory Building!

It is symbolic that this news is published in #42 of KOTOVOD Worker! '42' is the answer to Life, Universe and Everything... Dr. Katz and his team don't have an answer to this question yet, but their latest invention certainly adds more meaning to the life on Mars! Global Progression Scale demonstrates what needs to be done as we keep moving towards singularity! It is marked with milestones, which also come with bonuses for Learning Factory performance. It is a great help for KOTOVOD's engineers, as they can now stop bothering about puny human questions, such as the meaning of life: they have a scale to progress on! And the answer to all questions is, as usual: get back to work! Get back to work we shall! Glory to Science! Glory to KOTOVOD! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory/

Version 0.10.49 Released!

Global Progression Scale

New story chapters (a.k.a. comics) are now unlocked via achieving certain milestones on the scale (to be found in the Monument). Its main features:
Major milestones: unlocked mainly by successfully serving cats
Minor milestones: unlocked mainly by researching stuff on the Research Tree
Unlocking milestones grants minor cumulative multipliers for various Factory mechanics: at this time, it's research performance and researcher parameters, and Hype levels. More unlock bonuses will be added in the future
Some major milestones unlock additional gameplay mechanics (see below)
Certain milestone unlock will let cat researchers reach out to you with their CVs. If your Dormitory is already full, you can stop accepting applications in the Tavern
After certain milestone unlock, regularization will be applied to linear and polynomial models, which will slightly increase their performance
Every milestone unlocked will visually change the Monument looks (graphics in this version are not final though)
Deposit mechanics becomes available after reaching the first milestone

Gameplay

(community suggestion) pressing 'backspace' or 'delete' on the buildings from your toolbar lets you dismantle them and get up to 50% resources back
Researcher generating algorithm has been tuned to make researcher perks more diverse and frequent to appear
New perks for researchers
New look options for researchers
Tuned up Metal Vein generation on Archipelago maps in Freeplay Mode: more Veins spawn now

Visual

Holiday theme! Cats sporting Santa hats are sending you seasonal greetings. More Holiday-related content coming soon
Neural Network buildings occupy 6*6 tiles (previously - 4*4)
More metallic Metal looks!

Interface

Feedback button is now present in the main menu as well
(community suggestion by xwingxx) when a building is selected from the toolbar, respective icon is highlighted
UI improvements
Cat Stores and Data Storages now display whether a cat invited a friend or dissatisfied a friend as a result of a deal
Upon having started learning, ML models are marked with a special alert sign that signifies that said models are not yet trained to convergence, and they can't be automatically connected to Stores until they converge. This alert disappears after a certain amount of training epochs
Upon opening an ML building, player can see whether there are better trained ML models, connected to the same network
If an ML model is automatically switched to a higher tier model, the former model will be halted as chances of it to work more effective are close to 0

Other

Performance optimization
Bug fixes
Tutorials updated
Localizations updated
Chinese localization updated

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How to Get More Involved

Going to Early Access is but the first step to glory (and eternal cat happiness). Wanna be part of what happens next? Head to this blog post and learn how to help make the game even more awesome!

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[ 2021-11-25 20:27:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

Learning Factory

Luden.io Developer

Nival Publisher

2021-02-18 Release

Strategy Simulation Singleplayer Tags

Game News Posts: 283

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Very Positive (295 reviews)

https://luden.io/

Steam Store

Public Linux Depots:

linux [577.48 M]

Learning factory is an automation sim in which you will learn how machine learning works and design your own self-sustaining factory.

It's all part of perhaps the most important quest: trying to understand what your cat REALLY wants. Do you want that door opened? Or closed? Understanding such complicated creatures cannot be done without analyzing huge amounts of data and building a neural network. And there's just a place to go for all that.

Welcome to what once was the largest research site of cat behavior in the world: the now-defunct KOTOVOD Learning Factory. It was built to process the insane amount of data about cats and their habits. The project was shut down many years ago and now it's up to you to bring the mighty KOTOVOD back to its former glory

Construct cat-entertaining facilities to collect data about furry creatures
Analyze the data with Machine Learning to find features and create better quality stuff for your pets
Automate and optimize KOTOVOD: you can never make cats too happy, you know
Learn how machine learning works by studying whimsy cats
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What is machine learning?

Machine learning is a real-world technology that helps us to predict the future. This technology is covered with tons of mysteries theories but how exactly those predictions are made? In this game, you will use real machine learning from the simplest things to extremely complex ones. You will see that there is no dark magic here.

Digital Factory

Everyone can easily imagine a regular factory, but what is going on inside a “digital factory” like Amazon or Google?) How they understand what to offer, how to attract users, how reviews influence their business? We want this tycoon/sim game to help people learn more about digital factories, machine learning tech, and digital marketing.

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