If you're going to make the Flamethrower have a minimum distance then I would be highly in favour of enabling an automatic secondary weapon that is fired whenever you target an enemy that's too close for the flamethrower to fire on, otherwise when raiding bases you're going to get into a very frustr...

I like the Alien Artifacts in principle but they could have done with a few tweaks rather than throwing them out entirely - I always had a few ideas on how to expand their usefulness, these things could of course be a mod just as easily as in the base game. 1) Potentially tweak the accumulation rate...

Doing a quick test of 10M iterations, calling a function that's directly in a table took about 0.55s. This then increased to 0.66 when performed on an empty table with its __index metamethod set to another table. Making __index a function that performed the table load and returned it resulted in the...

My suggestion for avoiding DDoS facilitation via an amplification attack would be to incorporate a nonce and hash in the initial client payload with a requirement that X number of leading bits in the hash be zero (however many it takes for the average computer to compute in a few hundred ms) - this ...

That's not likely to ever happen. The potential for desyncs, crashes, save corruption, and just malicious mods in general is far too high for any benefits from exposing that portion of Lua in Factorio. "Malicious Mods" is a bit of a stretch - someone willing to do that can simply make a m...

That's not likely to ever happen. The potential for desyncs, crashes, save corruption, and just malicious mods in general is far too high for any benefits from exposing that portion of Lua in Factorio. "Malicious Mods" is a bit of a stretch - someone willing to do that can simply make a m...

Assuming any developers read this - Would you consider exporting (into the export table of the PE) the Lua C API functions so that they can be invoked either with a simple GetProcAddress() call or if you include a generated LIB for dynamic linkage, even better. Obviously with the included PDB it's t...