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by woobilicious
Mon Sep 09, 2024 4:28 am
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #427 - Combat Balancing & Space Age LAN
Replies: 253
Views: 28596

Re: Friday Facts #427 - Combat Balancing & Space Age LAN

Initially the 66% nerf to PLDs seemed huge, but then the more I thought about it, I realised: Everyone comparing PLD pre-nerf to PLD's post-nerf, aren't getting the point, The entire point of a nerf is to push your play style *away* from using PLDs as your primary offensive weapon. You're meant to c...
by woobilicious
Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:55 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #408 - Statistics improvements, Linux adventures
Replies: 156
Views: 25414

Re: Friday Facts #408 - Statistics improvements, Linux adventures

Async saving is one of those oddball things that seems like it's a workaround to a bigger problem. If saves were barely noticeable then why even bother to put the effort in for a feature that 1% of 1% of the userbase uses? Why not work towards a solution that helps all users? <snip> Async *is* the ...
by woobilicious
Sun Oct 22, 2023 5:51 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Lua or something else?
Replies: 31
Views: 9725

Re: Lua or something else?

IMHO a scripting language for something like Factorio should have two things: Purity Simplicity Lua mostly meets the second requirement, but it's lack of purity is what makes it awful for safety, performance and flexibility. It is somewhat ironic that a project like fCPU, uses combinators internally...
by woobilicious
Fri Nov 25, 2022 10:17 pm
Forum: Releases
Topic: Version 1.1.71
Replies: 23
Views: 20647

Re: Version 1.1.71

I tested with Gnome on Wayland, and it's not really better there. Not sure, whats the problem, but it might be that, NVidia is not very well supported for Wayland. I guess, I just wait...I'm ok, how it works on Xorg currently Gnome is trash for performance, Ever since they moved to gnome-shell like...

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