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So I've managed to build the Rocket defense and 'won' the game. Very cool, BUT it doesn't give an option to continue playing, it also has a nasty 10 minute countdown which means the autosaves are all affected and it doesn't cancel upon deconstructing the Rocket Defense structure.

How do I salvage my save game and continue?

It is not possible currently, but we might add a possibility to continue in the future.

Isn't there a console command for stopping the countdown? Or even change the countdown time to something enormous?

It's hard to believe there wouldn't be a simple fix for this like edit out a line in the save file, or a console command. Given how this end goal actually kinda ruins your game at the moment I'd at least add a temporary 'quick fix':

• it might come with a warning upon being built, or in the tech tree text.
• Better: save the game automatically upon finishing the Rocket Defense so you always have a save file before a player makes the mistake of plopping it down.
• Even better: Add a 'continue game' option to the victory screen
• Best: The latter And have the rocket defense a super-weapon flattening alien bases at a large cost & timer expense per shot it appears to be

Well, the console (as far as I know) has access to all scripting commands, so you can manually "script" and test. I can imagine it's possible to change the variables for the countdown.

Gammro wrote:Well, the console (as far as I know) has access to all scripting commands, so you can manually "script" and test. I can imagine it's possible to change the variables for the countdown.

I have no experience with the console or scripting. Can someone tell me how to accomplish this feat?

Teurlinx wrote:[I have no experience with the console or scripting. Can someone tell me how to accomplish this feat?

You can access the console using '~' or '/' while ingame
however, I do not think the console will help here. To 'fix' this I think you would need to edit the control.lua file that is placed with the save (specifically delete/comment out line 69 "game.setgamestate")...

FreeER wrote:

Teurlinx wrote:[I have no experience with the console or scripting. Can someone tell me how to accomplish this feat?

You can access the console using '~' or '/' while ingame
however, I do not think the console will help here. To 'fix' this I think you would need to edit the control.lua file that is placed with the save (specifically delete/comment out line 69 "game.setgamestate")...

Thank you! I managed to get out of my predicament by simply changing the 'if time == 0' trigger to '>9999'

Teurlinx wrote:

FreeER wrote:

Teurlinx wrote:[I have no experience with the console or scripting. Can someone tell me how to accomplish this feat?

You can access the console using '~' or '/' while ingame
however, I do not think the console will help here. To 'fix' this I think you would need to edit the control.lua file that
is placed with the save (specifically delete/comment out line 69 "game.setgamestate")...

Thank you! I managed to get out of my predicament by simply changing the 'if time == 0' trigger to '>9999'

How do you get to the control.lua file????

Leosmellsgood wrote:How do you get to the control.lua file????

You would have to unzip the save, edit the lua file with notepad or whatever, then rezip it.

FishSandwich wrote:You would have to unzip the save, edit the lua file with notepad or whatever, then rezip it.

Sorry for being slow but i need to be guided very specifically, where do i find the save to unzip?

FishSandwich wrote:You would have to unzip the save, edit the lua file with notepad or whatever, then rezip it.

Sorry but i need specifics, how do i find the save file to unzip, ive looked through package contents and such

See this page: https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... _Directory

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