Friday Facts #434 - Galaxy of Fame

[FactorioBot]

Here it is! (beep boop)

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-434

[DarkShadow44]

The reaction to the Space Age launch has rocketed past our wildest expectations. We had almost 100,000 concurrent players, and as of writing this post, we have passed 400,000 copies sold!

Congrats, you deserve the success! I like how all planets actually feel like an alien world, although I currently I've only been to Gleba.

Also, I've seen the fixes you already made since release, thank you and glad to see you're still on top of your game like always!

[Skipo]

oh no ... Secretpro (yellow star east of Klonan) has a nice base, lets see what happens in week with other uploads

[Niizuki]

Congrats, you deserve the success.

[tolomea]

I presume most of the engines changes are going into the Switch port. Does that mean you might be able to give them the elevated rails and quality mods?

[Danjen]

I presume most of the engines changes are going into the Switch port. Does that mean you might be able to give them the elevated rails and quality mods?

This seems like a fair compromise, since the port is limited by hardware, then they'd get something new to play with. Not sure if there would be tech tree implications

Nintendo may update the switch to have upgraded hardware as well. Finally, could you not "just" downscale the graphic resolution for the switch?

[Splitframe]

Rumors have it that the Switch successor will be downward compatible with the Switch.

Assuming the game library is carried over under a single Nintendo account, does Wube consider releasing Space Age as "Switch 2 only DLC"?

[Twinsen]

Rumors have it that the Switch successor will be downward compatible with the Switch.

Assuming the game library is carried over under a single Nintendo account, does Wube consider releasing Space Age as "Switch 2 only DLC"?

If that is the case then yes, I will consider releasing the DLC on an upcoming platform. But nothing official is known and historically rumors around the subject have not been great. So we just have to wait and see.

[adam_bise]

Galaxy of Fame is nice. I suggest adding a search feature and a sortable stats index. Would make a competitive leaderboard. I'd set the default index to time < as speed running is very popular.

[maximillion]

How does Galaxy of Fame work in multiplayer? Does every player who's around when the game ends get to add an entry? What about anyone who's not online at the time?

[Mango]

Huge congratulations. You deserve it.

We had almost 100,000 concurrent players

I wouldn't be surprised if the actual amount reached or even surpased it if you add GOG sales.

[wizcreations]

This sounds like a nice way to see how other people solved various problems. Perhaps a bit spoily. Will people be able to create blueprints out of someone else's layouts? (I hope not)

[Sanqui]

Galaxy of Fame is nice. I suggest adding a search feature and a sortable stats index. Would make a competitive leaderboard. I'd set the default index to time < as speed running is very popular.

We will add filters and search but we don't plan to add explicitly competitive features like a leaderboard. It's a "for-fun" feature to share your factory with the world and we're not interested in spending our resources on the prevention of cheating, which is trivial.

[EustaceCS]

Rumors have it that the Switch successor will be downward compatible with the Switch.

I'll believe in this after Wii U (which I had a misfortune to buy two weeks before news about BotW being last adequate game for it) will receive any legacy benefits on Switch.
Last time Nintendo consoles had proper backward compatibility was back in the age of 3DS.
Which feels recent but in fact... sigh...

[SHADOW13]

some info what each colour is (on the galaxy maps) would be nice, in few cases I've been trying to figure out what exactly I am looking at

[icksa]

Congratulations on this huge accomplishment...Factorio is the greatest game that ever has been or will be made.

[ArrhythmicDissonance]

Do you have to beat Space Age in order to browse the Galaxy of Fame?

I'm not making particularly fast progress but I'd still like to see what others have done.

[Ohz]

All my deepest gratitude for the teamwork and creation of love. Thank you devs!

[EustaceCS]

Time to put that "pixel art to Factorio blueprint" gizmo to good use.

[Greybeard_LXI]

Do you have to beat Space Age in order to browse the Galaxy of Fame?

I'm not making particularly fast progress but I'd still like to see what others have done.

Here's a link to the galaxy.

https://www.factorio.com/galaxy/