Oh wow! Player death needs to be addressed.

It's really expensive to die in this game, particularly in the later levels and with more numerous biters.

Losing all of your inventory with no item drop just really sucks! Plus losing all of your hotbar slots, too. Ugggh!

Well, that's only because of the early version. There's nothing which could hide this latency. The whole input laggs for this version, but that will be fixed in... well, I think 0.12. Yeah, that's true. But for now, I am going to enjoy seeing my friend stuck at the same input latency as me! Muhahaha!

Nobody has yet to have time to write a guide, it seems. It's fairly straightforward in that all you really need to do is open a port via port forwarding. You can use the port given above, or make up your own -- But you'll need to edit config.ini (in %appdata%/factorio/config under Windows) for it to...

(future whish) a marker system would be nice, to mark the map so we can coordinate and plan what should be built where more easily I agree! A marker system would be excellent. I also suggested an ability to add a layer to the main map (and maybe even the minimap) that acted like a "drawing boa...

Initial setup was a bit of a choir, but once past that point the game worked smoothly. Problems encountered: * I have a set of specific game-related ports that I open up through my router. So all of my games need to use one of these ports. Factorio was happy using a new port, but you had to modify c...

I notice in all of these "couldn't create atlas bitmap" errors, they have a non-power-of-two size of 512x459. I wonder if some drivers or video cards are choking on that? Theoretically, based on modern video card capabilities, creating non-POW sized textures hasn't been an issue since 2005...

Airat9000 wrote:with a dynamic IP address you will be able to play through what-if?

I play using a dynamic IP.

As far as I can tell, the game doesn't use DNS to resolve the connect input field, so you have to enter your outward-facing IP (and have appropriate NATing setup) for it to work.

Is there a way to use this command in multiplayer?

game.player returns an error of "Map doesn't contain 1 player, this function cannot be used."

kovarex wrote:Yea, we should do some user friendly interface for choosing colors.

If we're talking UI, I'd like to see the ability to change your game's port somewhere in the options too!

n9103 wrote:That missing inventory had occurred once near the start, but later it did not re-occur.

None of us have dropped from the game since our initial boot-up testing, so we will find out soon!

Thanks for the player color changing code!

I had the same reaction when my friend joined. "Awww, but I wanted to be blue..."

What I find amusing is that the person who loads the game is the one who starts out with the initial resources. So a good early tactic is to build some spare guns and pick axes for your friends when they join. Also my friends said they lost their inventory when they were dropped or quit, so keep tha...

And it works beautifully!

Latency setting in multiplayer forces that same latency on all players? Because it's a peer-to-peer serverless game? FINALLY. Thank you Factorio. You've finally put me and my Norwegian gaming buddy on equal footing in a game, for the first time! (I live in the US.) We're going to try this out. :)

One small thing that might be a gotcha.

If you edit the port that the game uses in your config.ini, it will crash if something is already bound to that port.

Might want to slip some error checking around the socket binding for now.

That was fast! Thanks!

Update: Except now it crashes upon load. Duh.

Update2: Nevermind, I think that was the auto-updater which crashed. Hmm. Can't reproduce.

There was a last-minute problem found with 0.11. It has debug code that breaks MP. (Or at least, makes it really unpleasant.)

They pulled it in order to fix this problem.

Yes, it becomes a nightmare rapidly. My first factory was a mess and never quite that functional when I hit that hump. My second fared a bit better, because I knew I needed Adv Oil Processing in advance this time. But it became a nightmare to manage. (See below!) I am not at all happy with it becaus...

My solution was to fast-track Advanced Oil Processing. A single storage tank of crude oil will make a lot of a batteries and plastic bars, more than enough to do the necessary research. You just have to plan ahead and make sure your science assemblers are ready to accept plastic bars and batteries a...

One thing that is somewhat annoying about Factorio is the autosave functionality and how it triggers like clockwork every X minutes. (Default is two, I believe.) There is a definite pause as the game writes to disk, particularly on larger factories/levels. I actually don't mind this for the most par...