The spike of the sales in the last week definitely changed the mood here. (The sales for the last week were almost as good as the sales per average month) We really needed this, as we were not far from the need to get a loan.
Life
One of my personal decisions was, that I can afford to get a life. Well ... more accurately, I can get ~25% of a life
I will still work on Factorio 75% of my time, but I feel like I could spend the rest 25% by non working stuff. There is good chance that it will help the productivity anyway. Today I was in sauna, yesterday running and playing billiard, the day before that theatre etc. One small thing every day gives me a lot of refreshment and energy to work on Factorio.Construction robots
Few minutes ago, I got first working version of the repair functionality of the construction robots. (First info about these is the friday facts: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-7)
The next step will be to teach them to not only repair damaged structures, but to reconstruct completely damaged parts of the factory as well. Say goodbye to manual checking of your defensive posts all the time. On the other hand, this will allow us to add more deadly enemies without denying the possibility of autonomous defenses.
We plan to use the construction robots to be used for automated building as well (blueprints), but I doubt it will squeeze into the 0.8
Editor
Tomas is working on the map editor improvements. Once we were forced to work with the editor (Tomas by working on Trailer, I was making the campaign levels), we could feel that it is really painful to use, so Tomas is adding couple of useful improvements, so there will be no more excuses to not make Custom scenarios
