Regarding whether on script state serialization functions should be ignored or fail: Errors should never be ignored. As saving and save game migration is important to "just work", logging the error, then continuing as if there was no error would be the right thing to do. Bonus points for s...

What I really can not wrap my mind around yet, is the resolution of the G2A issue. G2A's business model is to profit from fraud. I know that an honest trader is basically an unthinkable thing for most people. But we're not talking about honest traders. We're talking about G2A. That is, what i meant...

What I really can not wrap my mind around yet, is the resolution of the G2A issue. G2A's business model is to profit from fraud. I know that an honest trader is basically an unthinkable thing for most people. But what if there actually could be such a beast. What if there actually could be a trader...

Loewchen wrote: ↑

Thu May 28, 2020 11:46 am

Half a stack but at least one per stack equals all when the stack size is one.

Please upgrade to feature request:
Transfer half of every item type contained in the chest regardless of stack size.

What if we add an opt-out checkbox "Delay automatic updates for 24h"? They already have a much better system: It is called "stable release" and it is what you get, if you don't explicitly go for "experimental release". There also already is a pretty visible warning on ...

I don't care about player collisions. They almost never happen anyway... Yeah I mean it's not like I have more deaths due to trains than all other sources combined. Exactly. Player death is a pretty rare thing to happen. And train deaths are only one variant of it. So why bother adding any eye cand...

theolderbeholder wrote: ↑

Wed May 13, 2020 5:34 pm

Oktokolo wrote: ↑

Wed May 13, 2020 7:54 am

And whenever a vehicle (including trains) runs over a biter,

- or the player -

Oktokolo wrote: ↑

Wed May 13, 2020 7:54 am

gore should splatter around.

FTFY, no need to thank me

I don't care about player collisions. They almost never happen anyway...

To be learned: never ever update the first few hours after a release - this holds for EVERY software everywhere. We are on experimental, because we are the testers wich report the bugs, wich stable users will never see. Not updating whenever an update is available would defeat the most important pu...

ThunderFD wrote: ↑

Tue May 12, 2020 1:21 pm

trains could kick up some bigger dust clouds as well. - each wagon kicking up some

And whenever a vehicle (including trains) runs over a biter, gore should splatter around.

Ok, copying RAM is expensive. Which is less expensive: full serialization and compressing like now, or copying the memory? If there’s no non-blocking save, can we have a shorter freeze? Copying RAM is orders of magnitudes faster than storing stuff to disk. So yes, just copying the gamne state, then...

As I have said, there is only one mod that really adds new biter models to the game increasing the number to three. Thats pretty few in my opinion. All other biter mods are just recolored or rescaled versions of existing biters. Which strongly implies that "more biter types" isn't of real...

yeah the problem i mentioned in my original post was that fork() reimplementations on windows can not be copy-on-write, the windows kernel does not have any mechanism for this. it *must* copy the entire process memory space into a new address space and memcpy is expensive - it gets worse the larger...

Multiple demands of tire and chain tracks are a sure sign for the GFX entering the uncanny valley. Stop right here or be prepared to improve GFX for the next ten years...

But yes, animated grass and bushes would be nice, as would be weather like rain or fog.

Optera wrote: ↑

Sun May 10, 2020 7:09 am

Almost all non-blocking windows backups use the built in shadow copy feature.

Shadow copy can create snapshots of files and volumes. To use that with a Factorio game state, it has first to become a file...

Sure, but now you've just transferred the storage problem from large quantities of DU items to large quantities of bullets and cannon round items. Just go killing some nests! Apart from that obvious solution, i am of the opinion, that Factorio indeed needs some "real" waste management and...

PyroFire wrote: ↑

Sat May 09, 2020 6:25 am

Reality doesn't translate to fun game mechanics.

Except when it does. Depleted uranium rounds are a good example for that. While still a simplification, it is definitely fun to kill biters with them - i tested that in countless hours.

kruzesfactorio wrote: ↑

Fri May 08, 2020 12:02 pm

You can make DU bullets and DU cannon rounds with 238U "DU" ingame can't you?

Yes, we can.

riking wrote: ↑

Fri May 08, 2020 3:32 am

Such a change would need some form of disposing of the unwanted depleted uranium....

In the real world, uranium projectiles are made of depleted uranium...

That text colour isn't bad, I would be content reading a web page with that theme, because the text is a mid-grey, not the almost white that the factorio main page has. The Factorio main page can be set to black-on-white with the following style in Stylus: body { background: none !important; color:...

ssilk wrote: ↑

Tue May 05, 2020 10:36 pm

Your interpretation. I just answered questions.

I accept that you don't want to reveal what shortcut Mac users are trained to use for "executing" list items where mere selection is also a useful thing to have. I will not ask further questions about that.