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wren6991 wrote:

Brathahn wrote:Oh boy, i can see the rainbows in the chat from here!

Tell me you didn't write out those tags by hand

I don't think, that he did it by hand as there are easy to use tools for that.

Regarding text: a monospaced font option would be super sweet.

Also please add an option to trigger an control/mod command.

Something like:

Zomis wrote:Another nice feature would be to support *markdown*.

Something better would be an actually logical system. I don't understand why everyone thinks Markdown is so great when it's not terribly user-friendly. Bbcode, on the other hand, is logical and straightforward for people to understand. Most bbcodes largely correspond to actual html elements with a handful of characters changed. (Primarily <> to [].) And considering their current examples look far more like bbcode it'd be more consistent to style text markdown as bbcode instead.

bNarFProfCrazy wrote:Also please add an option to trigger an control/mod command.

Something like:

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Choose your proffession. [command=mymod-profession("miner")]Miner[/command], [command=mymod-profession("smith")]Smith[/command]...

+1

Is there a planned ETA for 0.17? Not asking for a date, more a "we think maybe June/July" or something vague, just to have an idea.

I just realised how awesome it will be to have icons in station names. No more mess of white and red text.

I think StrangeLoopsGames with their Eco game figured the item/recipe/technology interactive text thing. I for one, prefer simpler syntax like markdown plus converting to interactive text specific keywords. Of course, that suppose there's a scheme to the name of stuff.

pingger wrote:add the possibility to CTRL+Click (or similar) on an item or even place building and it automatically written to the chat bar, so we don't have to actually write [recipe=advanced-circuit] (I'm thinking of diablo 3 right there) ...
But nice feature

Quoting for visibility. This insanely handy in MMOs and ARPGs.

TheTom wrote:Is there a planned ETA for 0.17? Not asking for a date, more a "we think maybe June/July" or something vague, just to have an idea.

The developers generally know a about a month or so in advance that a (new) experimental release will be out.
Since they haven't discussed a feature list for 0.17 yet, I believe the developers aren't far enough along to have a roadmap to release yet.

kylone wrote:

TheTom wrote:Is there a planned ETA for 0.17? Not asking for a date, more a "we think maybe June/July" or something vague, just to have an idea.

The developers generally know a about a month or so in advance that a (new) experimental release will be out.
Since they haven't discussed a feature list for 0.17 yet, I believe the developers aren't far enough along to have a roadmap to release yet.

Apart from this one viewtopic.php?f=3&t=678

Gotta love that thread. April 2013, the first published roadmap. Time elapsed until someone asks for belts to be nerfed: 15 hours.

quyxkh wrote:One related thing I saw in Spore was, it'd embed creature blueprints in creature images. Could you examine images dropped in the blueprint-pasting box for text metas that look like blueprint strings?

That's part of the PNG format. you can actually store all kinds of information in a PNG file.

Adobe Fireworks (Part of CS6, discontinued after. Apparently nobody used it, I thought it was decent) used layers, like a Photoshop lite, and saved EVERYTHING in the PNG file.

dee- wrote:

I disagree, this idea will probably end well.

Very multiplayer oriented, I will never use all of those features personnally. But sounds amazing, good ideas

kylone wrote:The developers generally know a about a month or so in advance that a (new) experimental release will be out.

The developers actually know 3-6 months in advance that a new release will be out in a month.

Ohz wrote:Very multiplayer oriented, I will never use all of those features personnally. But sounds amazing, good ideas

I agree, that big part of it is multiplayer oriented, but using the icons for stations/blueprints/saves might still be useful in singleplayer.

kovarex wrote:

Ohz wrote:Very multiplayer oriented, I will never use all of those features personnally. But sounds amazing, good ideas

I agree, that big part of it is multiplayer oriented, but using the icons for stations/blueprints/saves might still be useful in singleplayer.

Especially if it would be possible to filter station names containing icons, then you would just see your production related stations.

This is probably the coolest feature now!

It brings back pleasant memories of something similar!

Years ago I played Anarchy Online - MMORPG in hard SF setting.

One of the absolutely coolest features it had was user-generated pages. It mainly got used on shop channel, raid interaction & org/clan management.

How it worked, is that user could post a link in text, that could contain clickable reference to item type, actual item or any game screen (like character sheet). It also allowed something much cooler - player could post a link to whole freaking PAGE that used game gui (game's help gui to be exact, not unlike interactive help pages in i.e. old Borland DOS IDE for Pascal/C, or 16-bit Widnows Help). That page could be formated using basic html-like tags, including text formating, tables, lists and item / type references. This way instead of spamming chat, players would post links to self-made custom 'shops'.

I don't remember how the textboxes were stored, if there was some per-player permanent clipboard and used message-id reference number, or if it was pasted as a whole, but it was freaking awesome.

I know Factorio role-play is far from being easy, but that would boost it considerably!

Very nice feature! ... i have many train stations and icons with color text help me with organize this chaos . Thank you