For machine hosting I cannot advice you in few words, as it's quite complicated, but you could find some simple to use ready factorio servers (I don't know if it exist, but maybe it does) and if that doens't exist you can buy(or find free?) some remote virtual machine and use SSH client to access co...

I think what I will do is I will leave first player in 'player' force and start creating forces only from second player. It should have no downsides, and I should've anyway preserve "forces" as there are only 64 available, but still I think it might be considered bug / unwanted behavior.

Here is whole script : https://pastebin.com/22Uj4xYz * I wrote set_gloal / not set_global, but thakns to copy-pasting everything I can, this doesn't affect anything, function reference is same everywhere.. Output during game start is 1 player 2 rafiz force 3 rafiz force 4 rafiz force , when I added ...

In short - upon creating new multiplayer game (non-headless) this script : function on_player_created(event) local player = game.players[event.player_index] local newForce = createPlayerForce(player) game.print('1' .. player.force.name) game.print('2' .. newForce.name) player.force = newForce game.p...

Ok - I did my own lua to fix it.

https://pastebin.com/kuN0M9rF

I might even turn it into mod that will scale down enemies on far palces..

I have problem : my idea for scenario allows players to choose their spawn location, whole map is rather big and if you choose spawn far from center of map it is extremally hard to stay alive. What would be best solution to "flatify" map spawning ratios - so that instead of "than furt...

I have problem with 2 mods (both aren't mine) : one is "xander-mod" and other is "Transport_Drones_Fuel" (TDF, later, coz it's too many words) Problem lays in that TDF simplifies requirements to create transport drones (from "Transport Drones" mod) and xander-mod is cha...