Start in various fields Multiplayer

[maisel16]

Hello guys,

i play this game in the most time Multiplayer.
What i want ist more Start Options. And friend is in game a Enemy not friendly in Coop Mode set up self a own factory. The Laser tower shoot him and enemy tower shoots to me.

Sorry for my bad english.
With best regards

Maisel16

[ratchetfreak]

Hello guys,

i play this game in the most time Multiplayer.
What i want ist more Start Options. And friend is in game a Enemy not friendly in Coop Mode set up self a own factory. The Laser tower shoot him and enemy tower shoots to me.

Sorry for my bad english.
With best regards

Maisel16

a per force spawn point you mean?

seems like this should be modable

turns out it is: https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... n_position

the following will set your force's spawn position to your current location

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/c game.local_player.force.set_spawn_position(game.local_player.position, game.local_player.surface);

[ssilk]

Moved from Suggestions to Gameplay Help, cause I don't see this as suggestion (there is nothing specific suggested).

[MrDoomah]

For an arbitrary number of players, this code will create spawnpoint on a 1000 diameter (500 range) circle evenly spread apart for every player in its own force. We used this for our 3 player "space race" type of game.

First you run this: (you can just open the lua console and write /c and then paste this code as it stands here (you can ignore all the spaces)

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game.peaceful_mode = true
r = 500
n_forces = 1

for index,player in pairs(game.players) do
  if index > 1 then 
    local force = game.create_force(player.name)
    player.force = force 
    n_forces = n_forces +1
  end
end


n = 0

for name,force in pairs(game.forces) do
  if name ~= "neutral" and name ~= "enemy" then
    local x = r * math.cos(n*2*math.pi/n_forces)
    local y = r * math.sin(n*2*math.pi/n_forces)
    force.set_spawn_position({x,y}, force.players[1].surface)
    for _,player in pairs(force.players) do
      player.teleport({x,y})
    end
	force.clear_chart()
    n = n +1
  end
end

You can paste this code into a text editor (notepad, word whatever) and edit the value for r to alter the distance between spawns.
Then after everyone is spawned and the map has generated (takes about 20 seconds) use this command:

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r = 100
for _,player in pairs(game.players) do
    local enemies = player.surface.find_entities_filtered{area={{player.position.x-r,player.position.y-r},{player.position.x+r,player.position.y+r}}, force = "enemy"}
    for _,enemy in pairs(enemies) do
      enemy.destroy()
    end
end
game.peaceful_mode = false

again, console /c and paste this code, and alter the value for r for the size of the starting area.

You might find one or more players spawning on water, but in our case it only took 2 restarts before we found a useful map.

[l4m3r]

maybe this code wont work with 0.16?