Friday Facts #141 - Mod Portal

[Panasonic1]

Factorio development explained in gifs:

When they say that 1st June was mainly a psychological trick:

[Zeblote]

That train is screaming for high resolution textures!

[Gandalf]

We will be requiring every mod to specify a license

Thank you!

[Tilendor]

Seeing a red train, did anyone else think that selectable train colors would be very cool? Could color code your iron train = silver, copper train = red/copper, circuit train = green, coal train = black...

Not required by any means, but could be a useful signal to the player

[Zeblote]

Seeing a red train, did anyone else think that selectable train colors would be very cool?

Yes!

[kulib]

Red goes FASTA!

[DaemosDaen]

Can we get a full loop GIF so that viewing it does not hurt my eyes?

[Nova]

... selectable train colors... Hey devs, that's a good idea for 0.13.x or 0.14!

[quinor]

new locomotive

Eyegasm!

[KatherineOfSky]

+1 on selectable train colors. Oh how amazing that would be. Iron ore train could be blue, copper: red, coal: black/gray, have green, yellow, purple, white for other items, so you could identify passing trains with ease.

[MrDoomah]

CHOO CHOO! All aboard the old train!

[CloneWarrior85]

The new train looks good, really well detailed, but i like the original one way better.

Would be nice if you guys would allow us to choose between the old graphics and the new ones at the options.

[Zeblote]

Would be nice if you guys would allow us to choose between the old graphics and the new ones at the options.

What? Why?

[Qon]

The mod portal can be viewed by anyone, but you will have to log in with your factorio account to download mods, same goes for the in-game version.

So, just to confirm: you want to lock people with pirated copies (who may become customers at some point or recommend/PR the game to their friends) out of using mod portal? What if some mod authors are willing to serve their mods via their direct links (e.g., .zip's from github) to them?

I also want to know this. Seems pointless and annoying for the user. Do we have to pirate the game to avoid this? Or is there a way for paying customers continue to download mods without this hassle if they want to?

[PursuedMeatl325]

The new train looks so cool I can't wait until it comes out

[CloneWarrior85]

Would be nice if you guys would allow us to choose between the old graphics and the new ones at the options.

What? Why?

Because everyone has different tastes?

The old graphics remind me a lot of Abesworld for some reason, and some of the new graphics just don't.


And since the graphics are there, it would be a waste to scrap them. A simple toggle would make both worlds perfect, i like the old ones, you like the new ones.

[Zeblote]

The mod portal can be viewed by anyone, but you will have to log in with your factorio account to download mods, same goes for the in-game version.

So, just to confirm: you want to lock people with pirated copies (who may become customers at some point or recommend/PR the game to their friends) out of using mod portal? What if some mod authors are willing to serve their mods via their direct links (e.g., .zip's from github) to them?

I also want to know this. Seems pointless and annoying for the user. Do we have to pirate the game to avoid this? Or is there a way for paying customers continue to download mods without this hassle if they want to?

There is zero hassle logging in once using the factorio account you already have, and then clicking "remember me".

[Qon]

There is zero hassle logging in once using the factorio account you already have, and then clicking "remember me".

In your opinion.

[catdog2]

For the rating system, I also would suggest to use a handful of well thought out categories, each with [-] [neutral] [+]. A 5 star rating on the other hand is not that great because it does not carry any information about why the number of stars were given. Also the scale is completely undefined, e.g. someone may decide to give 5 stars, the next one gives only 4 albeit sharing roughly the same opinion because "it's great but better is always possible".

[Ojelle]

@MrDoomah
Could you please use another icon in your name? Its confusing when searching for dev posts. Thanks!