Ok, I was able to reproduce it. I was testing on 0.15 and it doesn't happen there. I can reproduce it in 0.14 easily. So, I guess it's fixed for 0.15 :) That's good to know, thank you! What exactly causes the issue? Is it anything we can avoid triggering? I'd like to keep desyncs to a minimum to ke...

Ok, I was able to reproduce it. I was testing on 0.15 and it doesn't happen there. I can reproduce it in 0.14 easily. So, I guess it's fixed for 0.15 :) That's good to know, thank you! What exactly causes the issue? Is it anything we can avoid triggering? I'd like to keep desyncs to a minimum to ke...

Having a little trouble setting up a fresh map. I installed CM and Bob's Inserters, but I couldn't get the GUI for the inserters to appear. I'll work more on that later. What I'm 100% sure of, however, is that the desyncs happens by powering on inserters placed by robots for the first time. It doesn...

I would like to hear some technical explanation why the game needs to pause anyway. Just save in the background, maybe make use of the multiplayer catchingup feature if you have to?

Well, it works... looks kinda nasty though. http://i.imgur.com/DhNGkzJ.jpg 5. It is believed that we have completed all the research that require only red flasks. And there are no other studies. Accordingly, we will use the most simple mechanisms and structures. Medium Poles are a green research ;)

Rseding91 wrote:One of the mods is broken. You'll need to figure out which one and have the mod author fix it or remove it to prevent it from desyncing.

Already PMed Bob before posting here, and he told me it's not his mods, it's the base game's fault, and to post here. I'll PM him the link to this thread.

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Typo there

We keep getting desyncs in multiplayer. When placing a blueprints containing inserters and powerpoles, we experience frequent desyncs. It seems to happen the moment when the inserters are powered on for the first time. The inserters were modified with Bob's GUI, both fast and express inserters. Powe...

Looked it up myself the other day, and apparently Tungstic acid is available both as a power (anhydrous) and as a liquid. I like having it in the game as a liquid.

huliosh wrote:more compact and balanced

But yellow assemblers are not early game. You'll need two plants for copper wire and two for gear wheels.

Deadly-Bagel wrote:Arguably it is a bug, if you click the alert you will see it gnawing on your wall.

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I'll show myself out.

Have you ever taken a closer look? They're shrimp, not bugs!

Why not leave it up to the player if they want to automate or work by hand? It's a sandbox game, after all. You already have construction robots, logistic system and assembly machines to automate building. A little boost to handcrafting to give the player another option surely wouldn't hurt. Current...

Do you remember when you first played, how complicated everything seemed? That's about the level it needs to be for new players, any more and it's too great a barrier for entry, any less and it becomes boring too quickly. If you want to know what I mean, try Bob's Mods. See how long it takes you, e...

You're meant to setup assembling machines to craft things. If you don't want to do that you suffer with the slow speed. Yeah, we all know, and we all do that, for stuff that needs to be produced continually. However, it's still much more convenient to handcraft things on the go as you set up a new ...

There is https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Klonan/Crafting_Speed_Research if you want to increase your crafting speed. The reason it takes a while to craft complex items by hand (especially higher-tier modules) is because you are supposed to automate the production of these items. Yes, you are able to...

I've thought about posting this suggestion as well. But instead of a handcrafting-speed-module, it would make more sense if it were, similar to a portable roboport, a portable assembly machine. Then you could use some interesting mechanic, like the following: Say you have 3 of the portable assembly ...

There is. It's called the campaign

It's just that majority of people play the "freeplay" thingy with randomly generated world.

Wait, there is a campaign beyond the tutorial?? o.o
Several hundred hours, and I didn't know...

Something is changing the port of your friends address every few seconds so the packets are not recognised as coming from her. How is that possible, and why doesn't it affect other services? She's connected over the university/dorm network, and we never had problems before. Is this something we cau...

It's charged by the power source equipped in your armour, so the Fusion Reactor or the Solar Panels. It charges other equipment, like the laser defence, if your reactor doesn't output enough power.

Ok, so this time (second attempt) the game behaved somewhat oddly, for the first time giving an error message (client side) on one of the connection attempts.