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kovarex wrote:We are pushed by our internal need to finish things, so don't worry, at least we know someone is looking forward to have it.

There will be almost no new gameplay content in the new release. It is mostly performance optimisations, new gui look (this was supposed to take 2-3 days but in fact it took more than 10 days overall and still is not completely finished, but at least the gui is stylable and the style can be modified by mods), bug fixes and graphics for existing pieces (locomotive, splitter, miners), electricity statistics (graphs ...), playability improvements and other small things.

But you know, hundreds of small things take a lot of time, we are going to approach the 5 000 commit mark have already more than 90 000 lines of code in Factorio

The order of things is really not random (the reason why we are not adding much gameplay now)
a) We need to redo and restyle the gui now, to save rewriting work as we expand the game
b) We need to do electric statistics now, so the player will have way to inspect what is going on when we extend the electricity (add more powerful and demanding machines etc)
c) We need to finish graphics of existing machines before making new machines, and new machines should always be already with good graphics.
d) We need to touch the performance along the way, as players will always make bigger factory when the performance is better, and when it gets to edge, we get better (bigger) saves to test the performance on.
e) We need to make the usability and gameplay for the existing stuff better, as it is always better to have less things usable than lot of stuff.

P.S. We have been discussing enemies today, and the next update 0.6 should have some first touch of the enemies.

P.P.S. Here is the preview of the network graph gui (and some miners in the background).

rk84 wrote: Electric statistics have energy consumption on left side and energy production on right side?

kovarex wrote:

rk84 wrote: Electric statistics have energy consumption on left side and energy production on right side?

Thanks, you just helped me to find good names for the titles (input/output was quite misleading)

Candunc wrote: Will you be releasing it on Thursday again? It would be nice to have a new developmental build the first Thursday of every month.