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We play on a rail world map with my friend on a server we host. We finally reached Solar System Edge, but the End game achievement was not triggered. Did we miss something? I am attaching the save with our platform at the Solar System Edge.

something similar happened to me and I was confused. in my case. I (the player engineer/character) was not present in the platform. I had to re do the same thing again with me there.

-- spoilers/rant ahead --

as ridiculous as I will sound. I find it ridiculous in factorio we win by not being in the rocket sense there is more to do, but in space age we have to be there. visiting "empty space" with nothing new to find or do there, it is not required to unlock "shattered planet" or any new technologies.

if your platform is amazing, then you can fly back to where you came from to continue the game ...
and if your platform was terrible and got damaged a long the way, then the quickest way back to the game is embracing the space asteroids.

I personally just reloaded the game after getting the "win" and decided to work on other things instead, there is nothing but expenses to going there, I hope this get reworked.

personally just reloaded the game after getting the "win" and decided to work on other things instead

Yeah this is exactly what I did too. At least the achievements persist even if you save-scum lol.

I hope this gets changed as well.

gezero wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 9:47 pm Did we miss something?

I uploaded this save to the game.
As soon as I added the return route to Aquilo, a window with the inscription "Victory!" appeared.

is this still the case? now I'm not even sure. I did send my character there, but then the victory screen says that you won "by dispatching an interstellar space platform", which sounds like you don't need the player to be present? it's kind of a huge difference having to have the player there or not and the game is not clear at all whether you need to or not...

The player does not need to be present. At least, not back in December when I got the win, and I really doubt they would have changed it.

gezero wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 9:47 pm the End game achievement was not triggered.

If you're speaking specifically of the achievement, and since you were playing on a server: It's required that players be present in the game at least 50% of the game's runtime in order to get achievements. If the game ran idle, or with only some players at some points, then that could disqualify you.