What?
We wish for a command-line option to start a replay, e.g. `--load-replay FILE`.Why?
In speedrun.com administration, we often check replays submitted with a runs. This involves inserting a script into the control.lua of the save, which logs certain events, then running the replay. We review the logged messages afterwards.Being dedicated factorio players, we want to automate this (with a script). The only major hurdle right now is the ability to automatically launch a replay, and set it to max speed.
What would be most useful is a command-line option to run a replay. Even better would be the ability to run a replay without graphics, at max speed; kind of like a benchmark.
This is admittedly a bit of a niche use case, but it would be immensely helpful.
This could also be useful to run more complex benchmarks involving player input.