My thoughts: - make robots collide, preventing a too high throughput on a single point. - implement a PORTAL BELT, that basically works like an underground belt, except it teleports items. To me: - robots should help simplify the logistics of non-high-throughput items - they should not replace belts...

Thank you so much guys for all the hard work of high quality you put into this game.

You love what you do and it show, and guess what, we love it too <3

Achievements should not be (in my mind) about gathering huge numbers, or numbers in a number of hours. They should be meant to guide player, to encourage them to try, to discover. Examples. - "splitter" : you built your 1st splitter. It encourages people to actually USE the new patterns th...

It's actually funny that people realize that pretty "late". I like Factorio BECAUSE of this very aspect. Humans are unique (self-consciousness and all the crap) yet deadly stupid to everything they touch, yet able to pure form of empathy, yet... Surviving is about eating or being eaten. Ev...

Oh Kovarex, I'm sure you already know this article, but in case you don't, or just for sharing purpose, here it is :
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3 ... twork_.php

I've only read 25% so far and it's already awesome !

See you soon for next Friday Facts <3

Well... nothing really prevents every client to store snapshots of the map + all the events that occurred since this snapshot. Like this, when a client reconnects, it restores it's snapshot, plays forward all events and requests the events that occurred after in order to catch up. problem: it other ...

This can always be added after. You can imagine whatever mechanism you like, for example computing a hash for all objects in game and comparing it to the server's. Keep in mind that the goal is not to cheat on your client, it's to lure the server that you're actually doing more that what your client...

Well... wrapping up multiplayer will make this game legendary. Factorio is a well wrapped-up small masterpiece. Multiplayer will unleash it's power ^10 ! There are times I wish I was free so I could help (being a developer). How are you guys envisioning multiplayering Factorio ? Which approach do yo...

Isn't there a way to adopt a modular approach ? The goal is to split the code into modules. Each module produces a library. When doing a complete compile, the compiler only compiles if there were changes in the code base, otherwise it just takes the latest generated module library. I haven't been de...