Friday Facts #364 - 1.1 stable

[libik]

About saving time - could you just create image of what-you-want-to-save in memory first and then continue the game? Then compressing it and saving to disk in background without affecting gameplay?

[FasterJump]

-Smart belt building
OMG finally, thank you. Simple details like the old clumsy belt rotation is what put off new players.

-Multithreaded belts
I am curious about the desync problem. If I understand correctly, a specific setup (2 items arriving at the same time) could produce different results (which one arrives first) depending on hidden code mechanic. So, If I copy paste / flip(yey!) the blueprint across the map, in some places the copper plate will be first and in some places it will be the iron plate (all players getting the same set of results). It seems that it is impossible to circumvent because of loops...

Can't wait to try the new train GUI!

[T-A-R]

Congrats on reaching another stable version. And Thanks for sharing the save file.

[cydapb]

11-office-playing-m.zip is at 41h 18min
11-office-playing-af.zip is at 86h 17min

When loading those save files in 1.1.19 there may be some migration artifacts related to transport lines around underground belts, just do not use those saves for benchmarking purposes.

Enjoy

Thank you very much.

[KnightViper18]

Just have to say this... Factorio devs, you guys are legends! ❤

[FasterJump]

I tried the new smart belt building.

Is it possible to keep the feature active without having to press R repetitively? Basically I would like to be able to make turns without having to press R every time. I tried to keep R pressed while turning but the key has to be released and pressed again every time. Maybe a mod could emulate the repeated pressing of the key R while belts are selected? R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R. It would be seamless. What do you think?

This is an example of how effortless it could be:

[dahhakd]

Thank you guys, you're amazing. This release is truly outstanding!

[SYCLOPS]

11-office-playing-m.zip is at 41h 18min
11-office-playing-af.zip is at 86h 17min

When loading those save files in 1.1.19 there may be some migration artifacts related to transport lines around underground belts, just do not use those saves for benchmarking purposes.

Enjoy

I just wanted to point out this solar farm in the office playtest maps that were provided in this thread

playtestmaplogo.jpg (157.4 KiB) Viewed 8887 times

[StormWhisper]

Train GUI needs a function to rename all stations with the same name at once. Those icons are the best!
upd And train limit settings

[ickputzdirwech]

I just wanted to point out this solar farm in the office playtest maps that were provided in this thread

playtestmaplogo.jpg

I want one of those as well! It looks so cool

[Monara]

Wube's next project: reFactorio. It's actually just the source code of Factorio and the goal of the game is to keep tearing out stuff and rebuilding it because it became a bottleneck.

[Dixi]

About saving time - could you just create image of what-you-want-to-save in memory first and then continue the game? Then compressing it and saving to disk in background without affecting gameplay?

As I remember, saves that works this way: copy save data to memory now, save later, while game continue running, were implemented for some non windows version a few years ago. There was a comment, that same does not work well for Windows, due to some OS restriction. It was still possible to turn this feature on, by changing some LUA variable, and it was working very fast. But was disabled a few betas later.

Now, when all bugs are gone, I really do not understand why not to copy save data to memory, and launch save to file in another thread. I think, copying in memory about 100 MB should take less then several ticks, isn't it? I might be mistaken, and data copy takes more time...

Just checked. For me, typical save, have about 15-20Mb size, and hold inside about 3 times more raw save data.

[gGeorg]

Is it ppossible to make same trick for fluids ?



I mean, every pipe system now, has his "own" fluid defined. So it is somewhat closed, and every new bit is connecting is checked. So it looks to me,there is a chance to have many nuclear reactors, in their own compute thread. Which means a new meta for mega factoriies. Buy Epic/Threadripper processor and build nuclear plants instead of wast field of solars.

[Klonan]

Is it ppossible to make same trick for fluids ?

I mean, every pipe system now, has his "own" fluid defined.

Yes, we already did it for fludis, each pipe system is updated independently in as many threads and possible

[Mylon]

I tried the new smart belt building.

Is it possible to keep the feature active without having to press R repetitively? Basically I would like to be able to make turns without having to press R every time. I tried to keep R pressed while turning but the key has to be released and pressed again every time. Maybe a mod could emulate the repeated pressing of the key R while belts are selected? R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R. It would be seamless. What do you think?

This is an example of how effortless it could be:

I've tried that mod. It generally was a pain. Belts don't need to turn that often.

[casset]

thanks... ive been waiting for that BP Flip.. Good Job my dear developers, worth for every cent spent.

[NotRexButCaesar]

Looking forward to "more on that next week".

[donny]

I love you guys for the Stations Tab. I always have a hard time finding stuff in my megabases because my memory is so bad. Gotta try it right now!