Is it just me or is this an unusually short FFF?
They can't all be winners unfortunately
As the time goes on, the nature of our weekly FFF post has changed. At the very beginning (FFF-1) it was to let people know that "we're still alive and working on the game", and over time we've grown into covering a range of different topics:
Unfortunately there is no mechanism to use the new feautres of 0.17 in older versions.
Can you provide a save game?
I have another typo heads up , although off topic for this FFF.
On the content page (https://factorio.com/content) there is an instance of the noun "challenges" being misspelled as "challanges".
I'll get to this one on Monday 👍
Just a heads up: The word "carrier" should be "career", right?
Right, fixed, cheers
I mean, it's pretty reasonable to assume the same distribution of people playing different branches. So just use something like steamcharts to see how many people are playing.
What is a reasonable assumption for the number of people playing stable vs experimental?
The last 2 weeks have been less productive than we would like on the bug fixing front. The Easter festivities along with a wave of illness have dampened our efforts. We have still managed to push out 2 more experimental releases, and fixed a few desyncs. We encountered one specific desync in the mass MP stress test last weekend, caused by a characters inventory size changing (such as researching the toolbelt technology) while the player is respawning.
The graph of crashes paints a similar story to how the office atmosphere feels. It is natural though, most of the major crashes affecting most players are resolved, so all that remains are the more difficult issues that only affect a handful of players. This means that each bug fix is less effective at reducing the overall crash count.
This last weekend, we had over 500 total crashes repo...
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