First and foremost, this will be a total game-changer for Robot Army, and I am now extremely excited for 0.17. Does "Units will now avoid pathing through all friendly entities, as opposed to the old behaviour of only avoiding same-force entities" mean that units will intelligently avoid pa...

I, too, would very much like to see this happen. Some really, really cool designs could come out of this. For one, it would be an interesting alternative for making sushi belts.

This would be really great for the Aircraft mod. Aircraft being affected by belts feels really silly, but it's unavoidable currently since they have to use the standard ground vehicle prototype.

+1

I'll just randomly chime in here and say I'd really like to see support re-added for a small barrelling entity. I'm an unapologetic logistics-bot-abuser, and my 0.14 saves had massive oil processing facilities that relied on inline barreling and unbarrelling in the 2x1 pumps with a bare minimum of ...

I'll just randomly chime in here and say I'd really like to see support re-added for a small barrelling entity. I'm an unapologetic logistics-bot-abuser, and my 0.14 saves had massive oil processing facilities that relied on inline barreling and unbarrelling in the 2x1 pumps with a bare minimum of p...

TruePikachu wrote:Duplicate of viewtopic.php?f=7&t=46513

haha, you're doing a great job of keeping up with this stuff, but I don't think this bug can be a duplicate of itself.

It's possible this may be a duplicate of viewtopic.php?f=7&t=46518 and others - some are suggesting it's an issue with mousing over your own vehicle while being in it?

I didn't think I would need it, so I didn't copy it. Where can i find the file? Do you know where the mods folder is located? or where the save games are? If you do, just go one directory up from either of those locations, and you should find a factorio-current.log file. Assuming you haven't restar...

I was flying in my airplane, over land. Surveying for a place to put my first ever nuclear power plant. Up north-east of my coal plant, in the area surrounded on 3 sides by lake. The game froze and then gave the fatal error message. 0.000 2017-05-05 13:06:23; Factorio 0.15.7 (build 29468, mac, alpha...

Sorry for the delay in reporting on this - I just kept forgetting to actually let the game update. Sure enough, updating did the trick!

Running your update for 0.15, I seem to get green icons only on running miners. Other entities (e.g. assemblers) only ever show up as red or yellow - yellow when output is blocked, and red at all other times.

It's a fresh game, with no previous version of Bottleneck installed.

I assume one of the big caveats for the performance increase on the belts is that, in order to render, you still have to calculate the absolute position of each item on the belt? you don't have to separately calculate each one. you calculate the first one, then just increment it in the appropriate ...

I assume one of the big caveats for the performance increase on the belts is that, in order to render, you still have to calculate the absolute position of each item on the belt?

This has been one of the best recent FFFs. Good show!

It would also be nice to unify/match (somewhat) the APIs for the two things that can be given commands, LuaEntity and LuaUnitGroup. LuaEntity has a "has_command" call that it would be nice to give to LuaUnitGroup as well. Ideally, both LuaEntity and LuaUnitGroup would get the "waiting...

We can issue commands to LuaUnitGroups, and the game's pather runs in the background over many ticks until a path can be found. In the meantime, the unit group remains basically motionless. Sometimes it can take a very long time to find a path, either because the target is very far away, or because ...

Did the host have "Verify usernames" checked by any chance? That I know for certain requires an Internet connection to work, if enabled. Interesting question. I don't know, and will have to check. Would be nice if the GUI didn't freeze, but that's a pretty garden variety UI responsiveness...

Gave it a couple of hours. Performance still feels smooth, which is great. Also, the new green color for the robots is awesome. Helps a ton with scanning the map. I currently have a large group that seems like it ought to be doing something, because there are biters being engaged by a different squa...

Will give this a try tonight. I'll let you know if I run across any issues!

Oh, and out of curiosity - is the map generation happening any time I get within max_expansion_distance of the edge of the world? Or is that distance a separate parameter? I.e., would the game be generating 7x7 chunks (instead of 30x30 chunks) out toward the edge of the map if I were standing at tha...