Being able to cancel a connection at a any point (downloading - loading - catching up) and get back to the main menu would be welcome.
Many times i killed factorio to start it all over again just because of eternal (or almost) connection time and i simply wanted to connect to another server.

Astonishing new graphics..
Green ore really reminds me of C&C's tiberium

Lately I'm not playing factorio much, that allows me to play other games, but as soon as 0.15 will be released, I'll just throw any other games out ^^

When i first tried multiplayer scenarios, i naively created my vars directly within the control.lua. The scenario would cause desyncs whenever I changed the value of a variable. I resolved it by putting all my var in the global table so I assumed it also affect the network.

I've read the book, but I've missed that performance tips.. (haven't read it yet but will absolutely do) you have very well explained how the Lua scope works : local / global. I guess it's a bit misleading to have a table in factorio that is called global. "Persistent" could have been more...

So true.. you have no idea how many dust and others things they are inside (And I especially not took the picture at 90° so most of it is hidden ^^)

Calbrenar wrote:touche'

Do you want my keyboard? (actual keyboard picture)

I have absolutely no specific knowledge about the factorio engine, but from everything i've read fff or forum, this is my believes : The game engine has a few "flaws", i use quotes because in the end it's a matter of personal opinion and no one can blame the devs for creating this great ga...

Ok, seems clear enough now. Another question come to mind, i'll use an example as explanation : Imagine I use many var but only a few simultaneously at any particular point. What is the most efficient : - Access everyone without much care, but only the needed ones return whatever_func(global.data1, ...

/bashing on Sparkysam, sorry to say that but this post, and others, are plain bullshit. - While Rseding91 has spent most of his time on 0.15 doing (multicore) optimization, its pretty cool that other Wube developer are not twiddling their thumbs and actually do interesting things like HD graphics or...

Lua does hash tables. What you're describing is in fact the fastest way of doing what you want. Reading from global tables cost some nanoseconds. So the way I do it is efficient enough? I the boolean var isn't worth it's cost no matter the array size? You can save a fraction of time by localizing t...

Hello there, I have a question regarding script performance, more specifically i want to optimize as much as possible my on_tick event. Basically i need delays/timers so I use an array like this : key= game.tick i want the code to perform, value= whatever data i need for the process It's pretty hand...

I must say that after somewhat 1,500 hours on this game I've lost interest in current vanilla gameplay but with nuke and speaker (oh yeah :D) i guess another thousand hours it will be... I believe there is only one thing that needs to be addressed so that factorio becomes perfect modding-community-w...

The only available tutorial that I know of is this one . (I actually didn't watched it) This is for mods, a scenario has a few more restrictions : you can't edit the data.raw. Basicaly : you cannot "create/define" new entities, you can only use and modify the existing ones. If you know a b...

Consider the /evolution or /time commands, they are commands that are open to anyone. I assume that these custom commands will fire for anybody and it will be up to the modders to check player.admin if the command is for admins only, as this is a more flexible solution in several ways. I disagree. ...

For 0.15 you can register your own console commands in mods. That's great ! :d Read: no - why would you want to read from the console? It's going to be boring player conversation 99% of the time or localized string keys: "item-name.copper-ore". Will the custom commands be available to all...

2GB VRAM is not much nowadays... todays graphic cards are bundled with 4 or even 8 GBs If the HD graphics only require 2GB ram, Then how about it being the base graphic, and then the current graphic would be the "low-quality" setting? ^^ The signals look sexy, but i'm still missing moar ra...

this game is a niche magnet for aspergers

Near the beginning of the control.lua is the chest_loot_table definition, it should be like this : global.chest_loot_table = { ["steel-chest"] = { {item = {name="land-mine",count=1}, probability = 3}, {item = {name="grenade",count=2}, probability = 2}, {item = {name=&qu...

many many geniuses/gifted people are actually terrible at school. Being good at school (at least before graduating) doesn't mean you're a genius, it simply means you are well adapted in the educative system, that you "fit the mold". But many great minds, scientists or artists mostly just d...