Ok, we've put that in the title above. Thanks!

What will be very interesting, as stated in the article, is to see what the factorio creatives in the community figure out what to hack together based on this...

I expect some sort of UE5 factorio-esque battle system...

Imagine a game where you run a factory, and you haveto maintain it - while a bunch of PvP FPS shooter are running through your factory battleing it out and keep dmaging your supply lines and you have to fix them - you can choose to join the factory maintenance team, or be a PvP player laying waste to your enemies and fucking up the factory supply lines for the other teams at the same time.

I mean, you can already do this right now in MP (if not in 3D) :

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=560735#p560735

Thats interesting, but I don't think the social dynamics of such a game would work. The situation is unstable, where either the builders can't keep up and quickly lose their factory (and probably quit) or the PvPers get surpressed and/or just ignore the factory.

This is kinda what happened in modded PvP Minecraft servers.

But there are already some team based "production line PvP" games like Mindustry and Foxhole.

Mindustry is like a PvP Factorio-lite

There's a better concept, it's called "Biter Battles" - just search Youtube for VOD's - there were whole bracketed tournaments with it.