As noted, I don't think there is a definitive answer, since it depends on the exact wording and your jurisdiction. Although I guess Wube could force modders to allow certain uses as terms of using the API, though I'm not sure about that either...

Well sure, you can tell people not to modify your things. The question is, how enforceable is it? Heavily depends on your jurisdiction.

robot256 wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 11, 2022 3:26 am

"one operation per chest" is precisely the performance penalty that is severe enough to avoid.

Are you sure about that? Because I can't image it being that bad.

A bit late to the party, but what about a "filterable chest"? Shouldn't affect normal chests in the slightest. Or simpler, a flag that enables filtering for an individual chest. Would at least limit the filter check to one operation per chest at minimum.

Sounds like something more suited for a lawyer, we can really only speculate here. Although I'm pretty sure that that is not a thing. You can't ask people not to modify your things, you can only ask them to not redistribute said modifications. In your example: Well, the mod would not be modified, on...

I'm using Arch Linux, running the standalone factorio 1.1.57. I did a fresh download, default settings, no mods, and then installed this mod: genshin-impact skin As long as that mod is active, the game will crash during croppng images phase. Removing the mod removes the crash. pngcheck explains why ...

Not sure, what exactly are you looking for?

AFAIK there is no logical difference between ALT-F4 and the close button on windows, it's all a close message for the application. Although I agree that it should prompt to save in any case. Other programs behave like that as well, and it's useful to not lose progress. There is no real drawback to a...

But i remember further that the game should then allow you to build a space station which gets supply from the planets surface. That space station would then be expandable and you would build your spaceship on that space station which is then going to bring you back home. Perhaps with new materials...

I'd probably make it opt-in. What? The surfaces? The statistics? That needs a bit more flesh :) Sorry, I meant like ickputzdirwech's option 1. Have a flag for the surface that modders can add that will add said surface into the statistics view. For best results, I would probably allow the flag to b...

Multi-threading comes up every once in a while, and the answer we got is that it's not worth the effort. Multithreading is hard, determinism must be kept and performance is not guaranteed.

That would be fantastic, yes!

BlueTemplar wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 08, 2022 12:35 pm

I already had to remove Alien Biomes in my 2nd pY Alien Life game because the first one slowed down too much !

How does Alien Biomes slow things down?

I'd probably make it opt-in.

PaszaVonPomiot wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 01, 2022 9:54 pm

In general video game developers don't share their code because if leaked to public it could be used to create a clone of the game or cheats.

Well, that's where NDA comes in, no?

without mods it was completely loaded. Disable problematic mods. Or all. Vanilla - forever !! does not load the previous save, even without mods. An error is displayed According to OP even without mods it doesn't work. @OP Are you sure you have enough free RAM? It's a huge map using 10GB, and it so...

I missed the detail about the 50 radars before. Note that is a lot of information that now needs to be passed back and fort There is no information that needs to be passed back and forth. Each computer calculates the scan for themselves, fully deterministic. especially if these radars are scanning ...

I don't think you can burn any of those. Try petroleum gas.

Cool, thanks!
Say, is it normal that there is constant chat spam about "No station supplying *****" being found?

AFAIK this would require solving the complex graph problem of connecting any consumer to any producer. Every tick, since load changes.
Does anyone have / already proposed an idea to keep the computational complexity low?

It's very unlikely that they would give out access, and it has nothing to do with intellectual property (or at least shouldn't), but rather they probably don't want to reveal what is likely a lot of messy spaghetti and snarled code. really its about this. only recently have they even started unit t...