If someone happens to run into something similiar in the future: Try restarting the steam client. Turns out if there is a new steam version it refuses to load your cloud player profile and for some reason refuses to connect with the factorio authentication server (?). Anyway, the problem is fixed an...

Since today I am unable to connect to the factorio auth server, also browsing public games is impossible. See attached screenshots. Additionaly the game language reverted back to Default. I disabled all mods and tried reverting back to a previous version (as suggested here ), without any success. Wh...

Why not make it an option while creating your game? That way you can please both factions. "Bot Lovers" turn them on at game start. "Belt lovers" turn them off at game start. Heck, in my opinion it's a great opportunity for you to get creative, you can do all sort of interesting ...