I tried connecting to the team challenge server. First it timed out during catching up. When I retried, it did successfully connect. However, a message box appeared that I was dropped from the game and whether I would want to save the game, quit, or reconnect. I could see chat messages, so I think I ...

cube wrote:This was caused by a race condition in the file transfer code.

So this was indeed caused by my fast low-latency connection?

Thanks for fixing!

Is this the case for any server?
Yes, it is.

Do you know if the other player get the message as well when you get it?
It doesn't seem so. Someone mentioned the server crashing when some laggy clients tried to join, but surely my Factorio shouldn't hang then. ;) (See my edit in the first post ...

On my machine, it seems that everytime someone (other than me of course) leaves the server, I get a message "Server stopped responding" (if I recalled the wording correctly), and after a while, it timeouts.

I run Factorio through Steam on 64-bit Arch Linux. Port forwarded, 100/100 Mbit connection ...

Factorio sometimes crashes during downloading the map for a multiplayer game. It sometimes works, and sometimes not, more often than not it does though, although I can't figure out when.

I run Factorio through Steam on a 64-bit Arch Linux. I have the correct port redirected. Maybe it is also worth ...