[0.17.41] Cannot ever join large multiplayer server (catching up)

[TwentyEighty]

If a multiplayer server becomes a big complex factory, it will dip below 60 UPS and slower players are unable to join, they will never catch up.

In my case, one of the regular players is experiencing 50 UPS and the server is still at 60fps. If no one is already on the server to pause this person simply cannot play anymore. There are workarounds but only if the server admin (me) is available to run commands over ssh.

If a server is set to auto pause it shouldn't start running until the player in has caught up, not start running as soon as a connection is made. That would avoid this bug entirely

[dog80]

what would also fix this bug is if your mate would buy a better computer tbh

[TwentyEighty]

The map is getting large enough that fewer and fewer PC's will be able to hit 60ups on it. Everyone knows factorio will hit UPS limits if the factory is large enough. Shouldn't prevent people with average pcs from joining at all.

[super_aardvark]

what would also fix this bug is if your mate would buy a better computer tbh

"what would also fix this bug is if your mate would buy a computer that's better than your server," you mean. So now public servers need to publish their specs so people will know if they'll be able to keep up when the factory gets large.

Maybe the server should be able to slow itself down dynamically to allow users to keep up, with some lower limit configured in the server settings.

[Loewchen]

See: 43204

[TwentyEighty]

Yes, good topics in that thread. There's probably a lot of enhancements that could be made. But not being about to join the game at all (one of the topics in that thread) should be considered a bug. I don't think all the many hard problems there need to be lumped together with this one concrete problem with a concrete solution.