24/7 Public server.

[STCB]

There are many people like me are looking for someone to play with. Marking a server is hard for some people. I suggest the game can start multiplayer more convenience.
Under the "multiplayer" we can choose "public" or "invite friend" so player can create or join room to play multiplayer.

I know people will play the same map for weeks, so player can save the map when they leave and reload it anytime they want.
People who are trolling in the "room" can be vote kick by people.
Something like "SimCity Online" would be nice. Each player have their own part in the map, player can do whatever they want in their part and finish big project with other as a team.

[Fensterbank]

Under the "multiplayer" we can choose "public" or "invite friend" so player can create or join room to play multiplayer.

Hm... than you would need a hosted server infrastructure by factorio devs.
At the moment you could just make a public game, but in most cases no one can join because of firewall issues when you're behind a router.

If you want to have a room, where someone can search and join games, then you need a hosted infrastructure, where the currently running games are listed.
I don't think this should be a point where the developers put development time in.

Even Minecraft did never had such a system, but there have been thousands of public servers.
Just now hosting a 24/7 public headless factorio server is pretty easy. If the community grows, I'm sure the public server lists will come up and be filled and maybe there will come a "better" server, like Bukkit was for Minecraft.

[ssilk]

For v0.13 a basic lobby will come.
https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-111

[STCB]

Under the "multiplayer" we can choose "public" or "invite friend" so player can create or join room to play multiplayer.

Hm... than you would need a hosted server infrastructure by factorio devs.

I know but I am a super noob in computer (I don't even know how to get my IP address...lol) and I am too lazy to start my own.
Also I think we need to pay to get a server?