I think the bots should have some kind of wear. Maximum charge cycle count before battery capacity decreases? Rotors renewal? Storage compartment replacement? Something so that effort for Player Logistics and the odd low volume transport is hardly noticeable, but getting really expensive for long Ro...

While you've said you only wanted to touch the Graphics, S-Curves pretty please? I get the Rail-Grid conformance forces your hand on many decisions regarding rails, but fixed 'go one cell to the left' sprites don't leave you hanging between grid cells and would be really nice - especially for people...

They'd be processed in the same order on all clients to preserve determinism And there is no work that needs to be done between receiving bytes and applying them to the world state? I think of sanity checks, filling structs / queues, handing data to the lua engine - thats what I meant with before i...

But that's exactly the usecase for Factorio. Is it? TCP includes much more than just resending packets, some of which can be disabled (e.g. Nagle), but some not. How does Factorio profit from the in order delivery? I don't know what exactly Factorio transmits, but let's assume a Client needs to inf...

To all the people suggesting using a well known library: I think you overlook one important requirement of Factorio networking (at least ingame, but doing the transfer using a different setup introduces its own problems, some of which were shown in the FFF): Factorio networking needs to be as realti...