it's ubuntu 16.04 LTS
i figured it out and it's so dumb

when i edited the server settings where it says "name", "description", "tags", i edited those instead of the text to the right of them

i'm new.

well thanks for looking and replying anyway

yes i tried 14.3 first and thought it might be an error with experimental builds

it's probably something i misconfigured on the google instance, i just set it up to try and run a server for factorio, so i'm still learning

0.428 Error Util.cpp:57: No such node (description)[/code]


Looks like you are unable to start factorio? what happens if you run the invocation command manually?
i.e whatever "./factorio invocation" outputs

i'm not sure this is what you're asking for but maybe

$ /opt/factorio/bin/x64 ...

i'm having trouble getting this to run on my google cloud server

trying to run stable 0.13.20, i've copied everything over and everything is extracted to /opt. i didn't modify the service example at all, only the server settings and config file

when i try to verify the server has started properly ...