I didn't reply in the last FFF. In fact I was just waiting to see if I could think of something to provide my 2cents.

On the «Bots vs. Belts aftermath» of Twinsen:

I'm a bit surprised about some of the reactions of the last FFF because, at least for me, it was clear that the bots would stay. I ...

Same crash using Linux here:

0.000 2017-12-13 19:33:36; Factorio 0.16.0 (build 34159, linux64, steam)
0.141 Operating system: Linux (Devuan 1.0)
0.141 Program arguments: "/mnt/storage/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin/x64/factorio"
0.141 Read data path: /mnt/storage/SteamLibrary ...

IMO the old diagonal electric pole looks best if I compare it with the new looks. The new ones seem too perfect.

With factorio I feel that I'm building with lots of "ducktape" (since we're stranded in a new planet and we don't have available "precision" tools) so the theme matches quite right.
The ...

Woah. Thank you very much for the answers and for your time
That fixed my problems!

Here's the thing, I have an on_load method implemented where I retrieve the player (singleplayer mode) and it fails when I use the local variable of the following line:

local lplayer = game.player

What I don't understand is WHY this works for a new game but not for a saved one. What's happening ...