Portal to allow easy disconnect and connect between servers

[adamius]

Tldr
Portal object that allows easy disconnect and connect to a specific other server. Prompt for confirmation.

Why?
When you have 30 or so factorio headless servers it is annoying to have to manually quit then browse public games then connect to a different server.
I propose an object/vehicle that you place on the map and it allows easy transfer to a different server.

How?
Walk up to portal, press enter. The portal asks “about to transfer you to world ‘mining’, are you sure?’
If you click yes, it disconnects from current world server and connects to the other without having to manually quit out.
You could then have a world index you can send people to and from there they can wander around the servers without having to constantly browse for it each time.

Notes
This doesn’t imply simultaneous connection to multiple servers or even transfer of objects or player inventory items.

[Nexarius]

This would be cool.

Instead of having 5 different server by the same guy you only have 1 "portal server" in the list.

Maybe also a chat across multiple servers?

[unknowntrojan]

There is a mod that allows signals and items between servers - It is called Clusterio.
Maybe ask the mod dev for that feature, should be pretty easy.
Other than that, having this in vanilla Factorio should be pretty useful.

-unknowntrojan

[adamius]

Those 30 or more servers are already running the clusterio mod.

It would need to be able to disconnect from the current game in progress then reconnect to a different game on a different server. I'd say this is something that the dev team would need to implement. Its actually a special kind of "Quit then auto-connect".

Adding the hooks for doing so would be good enough for a modder to then create a GUI to edit the portal's destination world ip and port etc.