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TL;DR

Button to menu or checkbox for settings to send automatically or semi automatically desync reports.

Automatic / Semi automatic desync report sender

Feature what allows user to enable full automatic desync report sending to factorio devs or at least feature what allow do it semi automatic from menu with just one click.

Why ?

Currently finding desync report, uploading it etc needs effort and skills. Also fact that if you are in desync loop as player it is hard to know right moment to kill game and upload. So it would be much more useful if that process is automated so that player does not have to skill know how to collect all needed debug data.

I think it is not worth it because:

• You often still need the story around the desync
• Overall most desyncs are caused by mods, scripting or hardware defects, real problems would be buried
• Desync reports are huge, you need significant infrastructure where ever you handle all of it
• Problems that can not be fixed because of lack of reports is a non existing issue

Loewchen wrote:I think it is not worth it because:

• You often still need the story around the desync
• Overall most desyncs are caused by mods, scripting or hardware defects, real problems would be buried
• Desync reports are huge, you need significant infrastructure where ever you handle all of it
• Problems that can not be fixed because of lack of reports is a non existing issue

Well at least it should be properly documeted process. And if it semi automatic why not to include possibility to wrote message to it?

burner wrote:Well at least it should be properly documeted process.

If you could tell what information is lacking, I could update the bug report instructions, the idea is, that if one reads them completely and actually follows them the resulting report is exactly what we need.