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I was just wondering if multiplayer is actually doable in Factorio?
Every player has different levels of "skill" and knowledge in the game, everyone has their own visions on how things should be built and etc, so it all comes down to one person making everything while others do almost nothing other than maybe help set up train stations around the map, or fight off some biters.

How do people go about this? Should we have separate bases, at least at the start or something? Any recommendations are appreciated!

Finagle wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2024 4:19 am I was just wondering if multiplayer is actually doable in Factorio?
Every player has different levels of "skill" and knowledge in the game, everyone has their own visions on how things should be built and etc, so it all comes down to one person making everything while others do almost nothing other than maybe help set up train stations around the map, or fight off some biters.

How do people go about this? Should we have separate bases, at least at the start or something? Any recommendations are appreciated!

It's like an orchestra : every player can be tasked to do something by someone who coordinates the overall factory growth. Like : "can you build an outpost for this ?" "Can you setup a factory producing a blue belt of that ?" What's important is the input and the output, whatever is in between can be a black box.
And the director can be a single person, or change randomly from one player to the next one depending on the context. As in :
- "Can you build a factory producing a blue belt of blue circuits ? "
- "Yeah sure, but we'll lack copper, can you set up a couple outposts to feed it ?
- "Yeah sure"