Really, give us some non copyright infringing vicious alien beasts! Biters and spitters look lame.

Jap2.0 wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:25 am

6 years too late there.

Oh jeez. And then people say that I can't be calling this "rookie mistakes". Oh well, eventually they got all of it working anyway.

Well, we're already 8 years and 2,000,000 sales in, so its a bit late for us to change gears. Our base game/engine determinism is working alright for us, there was a server with 500 players, across different CPUs, OS (Windows 7, 10, Mac, Linux), continents, and there was no desynchronisation, which...

... Determinism is great, unfortunately it's not always there, and when it is it doesn't always stay that way*. Using determinism for synchronization is an easy way to provide yourself with an endless supply of headache. I don't lean on determinism and I advice others against shooting yourself in t...

The thing about locks-step is that the game join strategy is inseparable from the update strategy. If your game is lock-step, then you have to use the game join strategy we use (or a less optimal version where you just freeze the game once someone starts joining is also possible). Starting to updat...

So, I get that you're kind of an angry internet person, and anything said will be received badly, but if you do work on games, for fun or profit, then it's worth learning how to do multiplayer sync, and the different options available. What you're describing here is one option, but is definitely no...

And I'm shaming you for being a jerk. Learn some manners. Fair enough. I subscribe to Louis Rossmann school of criticism, not so much by choice as because I am who I am, and it coincides nicely. server is running and updating it's state, then client wants to connect, so server saves out it's state ...

It's his own fault that nobody wants to listen to his poorly worded explanations. I constructively criticise Factorio constantly but I am always careful to be respectful and balanced about it. Good thing I'm not trying to be constructive, I'm just shaming the devs for making mistakes far below thei...

you are just making broad assumptions My bad. When people have problems like this, you almost always discover a whole slew of deeper rooted problems once you start shoveling through all of it. Call it PTSD if you will. It seemed obvious to me that if you have sync problems, it's because your gamest...

The problem was that you used a faulty serialization library and the solution was that you zip tied the parts that didn't quite come together. I would've used a better serialization library. I mean, I just looked at its source code and immediately noped out. That thing is horrendous, and I can't ima...

I'm a wiki admin, I have nothing to do with the internal Lua workings, just to alleviate any concern about my lacking experience. Your file doesn't work with Factorio because it uses io. Could you provide examples of what a circular dump looks like? I'm seriously trying to learn here. You could sim...

Super-uber-giga-noob here, only 3 years of experience. Can you explain me how you write down circular references immediately? I could imagine how to do it while simply dumping, but not how to make that also loadable. Here's a file. I appreciate your sarcasm, it's not really funny but it's a much ne...

If the bug managed to survive undetected through 10s or 100s of millions of hours of game time it is not serious. Some of us played hundreds or thousands of hours without a single crash. I never personally encountered a crash until I started using mods. "Desync is not a serious bug." -And...

Wow. You guys just keep making rookie's mistakes when it comes to programming, it's embarrassing. It's far from the first time you do something this incredibly shortsighted and then it comes back to bite you in the rear, and that's only going by your own blogs without ever seeing a line of your code...

When you run around fighting biters, you don't really focus your attention on... ...virtually anything at all except actual fighting itself, but you went ahead and made better graphics over the course of development despite that being "not a priority" by that logic. Because you can come u...

Should add explosions when dead drones crash land, to mask the abrupt transition from live graphics to dead graphics.

0) ArrayLists have the best performance of the bunch by far, i.e. plain arrays work A LOT faster (just add handler functions on top of them to meet your API needs. In A* it's useful to check highest value nodes first, and inserting nodes w/ sorting will keep the list always sorted by default with mi...

The player will recognise this very soon, cause the pipes will be suddenly empty and nothing is produced. In conjunction with not beeing able to mix two pipe-systems under normal circumstances this would be an obvious sign for a player, that he did something wrong. Considering how quickly this drai...

Should've just literally mix the fluids in the pipe. Structures that consume fluids would be consuming all fluids in the pipe but only using what's useful at the input. If all fluids are consumed at the same rate then more involved mixing management than "just let it drain the useless ones"...

Removing gun turret upgrades but keeping laser turret upgrades have nerfed gun turrets by proxy. They were already all around inferior to laser turrets (unless you you max out all upgrades and use uranium ammo, but even then it lacks reach and is super wasteful for what it does), there were no need ...