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[LoSboccacc]

There’s a mod for that https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=97&t=23543

[Antioch]

I am currently playing the seablock modpack and holy moly does it get complicated fast.

Its great though, it really forces you to think in new ways if you have already mastered the base game.

[n9103]

I would expect a stable .16 release soonish. There's been very few features added in the last several experiementals, and a looot of bug fixes, which is their typical route to stable release.
(For those of you coming here expecting something other than a spambot )

[silver0708]

I am currently playing this and found it amazing. Just saying

[Blood_Librarian]

It is pretty fun, I havent gotten much of a chance to play lately, but I've been sticking with some pretty ultra hard core mods that basically make each red science pack require 5 wood bricks as a rule.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Anyone here be up for messing around with the PvP scenario the game includes?  Trying to get some people together for it.

[choppy]

Anyone here be up for messing around with the PvP scenario the game includes?  Trying to get some people together for it.

I would be. ( have you checked out 3ra's pvp server? it is modded with pvp in mind)

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Anyone here be up for messing around with the PvP scenario the game includes?  Trying to get some people together for it.

I would be. ( have you checked out 3ra's pvp server? it is modded with pvp in mind)

Haven't heard of it.  What mods does it have, and what do they do?

[choppy]

it is the groups own pvp mod. it sets up 2 teams with a walled off square with the goal of either 1. killing the enemy rocket silo or 2. launch a rocket. ( the research has been change so things just cost time) there is more info about it that I will try and find that I do not remember at the moment.

[etgfrog]

0.17.0 released

Improved game startup performance when using a large amount of technologies with deep dependency trees (it's now 67,000 times faster).

While there is a significant amount of changes, this one alone is amazing in my opinion. I should also mention the graphics have been improved.

Edit. I should mention, this version needs to be opted into on steam or downloaded on the experimental page.

[Parsely]

They probably switched to a more efficient data structure.

What kind of graphics improvements?

[etgfrog]

All the UI got updated and almost every model* did as well.

Spoiler: As an example (click to show/hide)

This is from fff-268

https://factorio.com/blog/
Almost every blog in the last while showed off one of the new art model.
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-283
This one shows off more of it.


*I say model but they are 2d sprites that are generated using a 3d model.

[Retropunch]

I've been reading a lot of the blog posts and it seems to be a huge (and really worth coming back for) update. Somehow the change-log doesn't quite do justice to how much they've improved stuff.

The main big one for me is the GUI - it was always a bit wonky and got a bit frustrating even when you did know how it all worked. Looks to work far better now.

[Kagus]

I was just watching some videos of 2-400 player multiplayer games from back in the day, and it got me thinking about giving Factorio another go. I always was a bit too cautious both with resources and especially placement, but watching the utter clusterfuck of 159 simultaneous players made me realize that it's maybe not that important to get everything perfect on the first pass.

Cool to see that they're still pushing out big updates as well.

[lordcooper]

I was just watching some videos of 2-400 player multiplayer games from back in the day, and it got me thinking about giving Factorio another go. I always was a bit too cautious both with resources and especially placement, but watching the utter clusterfuck of 159 simultaneous players made me realize that it's maybe not that important to get everything perfect on the first pass.

Cool to see that they're still pushing out big updates as well.

Yeah, everything up until you start mass producing bots should be considered temporary IMO.  That's the point where I'll start making blueprints and setting up huge discrete factories for different items, all connected by rail.  Until this point, all I'm really doing is unlocking the research to get there and setting up automated production for the items I'll need to actually build the 'proper' factory.  Even then, individual areas still get bulldozed and remade when switching to beacons.