DRM free is nice for single player games, but it's not so nice anymore when unknown people are connecting to your server with a different name each time. Having to set up a custom firewall isn't how this should be handled. Coming from other multiplayer games like this, I think the following should b...

I don't know how your lua integration works in detail, but can't you just forbid changing the game state in client scripts? Let client.lua only read from the game state and access local things that won't change the game state like guis, chat or files. To change things it needs to send an event to th...

You don't have to do the work of modders, if a mod causes a desync because it is badly programmed then that's the modders fault, not yours! ;) It doesn't work that way in the real world :P every mod that breaks gets blamed on the game engine and not the mod. But you're not breaking mods, they just ...

Right now the blueprint saving/loading mods that exist simply take the input through a GUI text field. The user pastes the blueprint text into the GUI and the mod reads the GUI. Yes but this isn't user friendly and annoying to use. You have to minimize factorio and open a text editor. (https://www....

As far as mods are aware they never know they're being run in a MP game. Why not? This may be important for some things. Mods do no syncing of data and they don't need to - they simply respond to the events generated by the game and do what ever logic they see fit based off those events. No extra d...

not gonna happen because it leads to desyncs when the files on each client aren't synced How would this lead to a desync? Other clients don't even need to know whether the file exists or that it has been read at all. For example you could load settings in a client sided gui. Other clients don't eve...

not gonna happen because it leads to desyncs when the files on each client aren't synced How would this lead to a desync? Other clients don't even need to know whether the file exists or that it has been read at all. For example you could load settings in a client sided gui. Other clients don't eve...

There's a makefile method to write a file and store data, but no matching readfile method to access the data later.

This would be really useful to persistently store mod settings and similar things, shared between multiple save games.

Your counter sucks! It went from 99998 to 100001...

kovarex wrote:It is design. Splitting by item is designed to work like that. You can have more things per lane, why couldn't you?

If it's like this by design, how do you get the output belts to not have only one side?

Normal and known behaviour, moved to Not a bug. Do you like this pattern on your belts? http://i.imgur.com/Fj9F9cJ.png If that's normal, then it's a design bug. Splitting per item is unnecessary as you shouldn't have more than one thing per lane anyways. Per lane split would have the same effect fo...

Woops, didn't see it was already posted.

RedstoneMandu wrote: 2)Long-range bitters that can attack things from far away. Probably acidic/poisonous spit or something.

Spitters already attack from a long enough range, do you really want biter artillery?!

Mods are not allowed to read anything in script-output. The only files they are allowed to read will break multiplayer if you edit them. I'm sorry... what the nonsense? A script can write a file but not read it later? That sounds like it is 1) a design fail or 2) an oversight. Does that mean there ...

Can you also add a "Load..." button that shows a list of saved blueprints and let's me chose one? Then it is perfect. Sorry, that is not possible with my .txt file design. You can try this mod instead: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14243 That doesn't work in multiplaye...

Why is there only a save all button? I can't save an individual blueprint (the one I have selected) and give it a custom file name? Good idea, I added a "Save As..." button in version 2.1.0. Can you also add a "Load..." button that shows a list of saved blueprints and let's me c...

Why is there only a save all button? I can't save an individual blueprint (the one I have selected) and give it a custom file name?

It doesn't even make sense to connect them like this, does it?

With the same stuff on both lanes: http://i.imgur.com/Fj9F9cJ.png With different stuff on the lanes: http://i.imgur.com/jlpaeuR.png Looks like both lanes are split together if they contain the same stuff, and seperately if they don't. It should be changed so the two lanes are always split seperately

This should say story_update so we don't get this error: