I've wondered this too. We've hit the wall with our maps every time now. I would be great to know if some entities should be preferred over others. I assume we need to go more trains vs belts if at all possible, and it does seem that using more logistics over belts too.

Is there a way to count the belts in your factory?

We ran into some serious lag in our first MP 15.x map and we're getting again on this current map. This current map is bigger, but since we're running Bob's we've had to rely on way more logistics bot and before (super spaghetti since we never did ...

Looks like Bob's has a broken dependency. I'm doing a full Bob's run and power and warfare are both needed as prerequisites for the silo. Send this to the Bob's thread.

Well, I managed to get my server back up. I was trying to ad some admins to the server, but I guess you can't just do that from the config files. Or, I'm doing it wrong. Either way, when I took those changes out it started working again.

Well, it's not as simple as the data is immediately ready to write out to a file. I assume it's having to do some kind of translation or compression as it writes it out. I remember reading in a FF that they were able to get save files down to almost half size. So, there's something going on in what ...

I was doing some tweaks to our config file,and restarted the server, and now I'm getting the same problem. I wonder if they auth server is down.

27.645 Info PlayerData.cpp:56: Local player-data.json available, timestamp 1496229225
27.645 Info PlayerData.cpp:63: Cloud player-data.json unavailable ...

A 400 MB game file? Are you sure about that? Our large factories in our MP server only come in around 25mb.

Or, would you care to share a save? I'm curious what's taking up that much space.

Not sure what kind of stats would be useful. Made note of some of the bigger numbers. This is from our previous 15.10 game.
Bots:
Logistics: 13k
Construction: 4.7k

Sprites: 5152
Total entities: ~841k
Active: ~88k
Connectors: 1.5m
Chunks: 9193
Pather calls: 23k


I'll post the 15.11 current game ...

We started another MP game on a different server. The save file has gotten to around 20mb in size (not sure how else to measure map size). We're starting to get lag again. So, now we have two games where the lag has gotten pretty bad on a large factory. We're going to try to test disabling the ...

A few days ago, before .15.10 came out, our dedicated server started lagging pretty bad. We updated to .15.10 and things were better for a few minutes, but now we're lagging pretty bad. Our map save is still under 20mb, though we did just explore a ton of the map on a semi-large factory. We're not ...

How about some tiers on the lights to provide distance of illumination? Or, has that been tried?

I like the idea on the third take. It was also what got me to think about research that would let you extend the throw of the lights.