Friday Facts #96 - The fixing phase

[vampiricdust]

The research window is almost as annoying in it's interruption of gameplay.

In case you don't know; In the options you can disable the research window so it acts the same as in multiplayer.

Wow, I didn't even think about that. The option says, "Singleplayer game stops when the research is completed". I just took it to mean the game wouldn't end after placing rocket defense. I usually turned it off anyways, but since I have a number of installs, some of them still have it on and I never really connected the dots on that one. It should read "Pause the game when current research finishes". Stop isn't the same as pausing.

[Marconos]

I really like the autosave feature, but truly believe it's need to be high on the agenda to make it occur in the background. It does really disrupt the gameplay flow.

With that said, awesome update. Things are working much better.

[ps666]

I do not like the pause during the autosave at all. No, i hate it!

[dusho]

yes, please change the auto-saving to not disturb the player if possible
in previous versions 0.9, 0.10 it had much better flow than it has now

[Veylon]

Minecraft saved when you hit escape to bring up the menu. That was a good time because you were already interrupting game play.

Maybe autosave could wait to fire until the player is bringing up the research or recipes screen. The game could freeze to a halt behind the screen and you wouldn't notice because you're busy looking at it and maybe clicking on stuff. The screen itself could still be responsive, but not integrate whatever was done until after the autosaving was complete. The illusion of seamlessness would only be blatantly broken if the screen was closed right away before autosaving was complete.

There'd also have to be a second autosaving timer in case the player doesn't bring up menus for a really long time. Like if the normal autosave was ten minutes, the forced autosave - like it is now - could happen after thirty minutes.

[Ojelle]

Instead of every thirty minutes, make it also a setting (or keep the setting and just add min/max time between autosaves)

[FishSandwich]

Instead of every thirty minutes, make it also a setting (or keep the setting and just add min/max time between autosaves)

There's already a setting, including turning autosave off completely.

[Boefjim]

Really good update in my opinion, I always wanted floors to be in the game, because a base filled grass would like very weird.

I also like the way that you automatically pickup items that are on a belt when you break/change it. Otherwise I had to pick the items up every single time.

I hope to see more updates coming!

[Peter34]

The only thing that really bugs me about the auto save is how it interrupts anything you're doing. I've had it break mod GUIs so I had to close them and open them again to get them to respond. The research window is almost as annoying in it's interruption of gameplay.

Research finish-interruption is hugely annoying, and needs to stop!

[Peter34]

The research window is almost as annoying in it's interruption of gameplay.

In case you don't know; In the options you can disable the research window so it acts the same as in multiplayer.

Yes. That worked for a while, but at some point before 11.22, it stopped working as we'd want it to. Now, every time a research is finished, if I have a window open, it gets forced closed. Even with the research window popup disabled. It's freakin' annoying!

[Oxyd]

The research window is almost as annoying in it's interruption of gameplay.

In case you don't know; In the options you can disable the research window so it acts the same as in multiplayer.

Yes. That worked for a while, but at some point before 11.22, it stopped working as we'd want it to. Now, every time a research is finished, if I have a window open, it gets forced closed. Even with the research window popup disabled. It's freakin' annoying!

That was fixed in 0.12.0.

[zangent]

I like that the belts now put the items in your inventory when you break them, but is there any possibility of having a key, like maybe holding shift while breaking the belt, that would make it leave the items?
Sometimes I just want to tweak my factory's belts, but I don't want to fill my inventory with circuits.

Either way, this game is 10/10