I run a dedicated server. My friends all have a very low response time to the server and get very fast download speeds of the map (a second or two for a 4Mb map). I however live a long way from the server and have a very high ping, about 250ms, but easily enough bandwidth. My download speed *from ...

Having played around with the combinators, it seems they could be used do some pretty complex stuff. However, one of the key uses seems to be missing: They can't set what an Assembling Machine is producing and/or turn Assembling Machines on and off. This would add some much needed control of what is ...

Yep getting this too. Usually 10 to 20 kB/s download, can take 3 minutes to download a 3 or 4Mb map! Sometimes it gets halfway and suddenly jumps speed up to 3MB/sec and finishes in seconds. Really wacky!

Was about to grumble about the same thing. I tried messing with the Steam linux install but that just won't play nice on a headless linux server and requires desktop Steam to run. Gave up after an hour or so of screwing around with dummy X video drivers, VNC and a pile of other such things.

So yeah ...