It just came as the path of least resistance. We upgraded all our devloper pcs a few years ago, so we had the old desktops just laying around. When the need came for a new server, it was easiest just to use the old desktops we had on hand.
Also another reason, it is much easier and cheaper to maintain standard desktop parts.
Hardware availablility isn't amazing here in Czechia, so sticking to more mainstream CPUs and form factors makes it much easier to fix them when something goes awry.
Nice FFF ! I really like that you keep sharing "daily" news.
I work in IT infrastructure and I have few questions :
Why are you using specifically desktops PC for tests servers ?
If you need a lot of CPU power you could just use production server and do some virtualization. I'm sure you considered it, what are the reasons this solution wasn't selected ? Cost or complexity ?
And what about cloud instance dedicated to CPU usage ?
Cost also plays a role. Servers are generally a lot more expensive and we have no use for it's form factor or other enterprise features.
Single core performance is really important for factorio so expensive server CPUs with many cores would offer marginal or no improvement[citation needed]. (although the AMD Epyc seem nice).
Desktop gaming CPUs work well for running our... game..
Nice FFF ! I really like that you keep sharing "daily" news.
I work in IT infrastructure and I have few questions :
Why are you using specifically desktops PC for tests servers ?
If you need a lot of CPU power you could just use production server and do some virtualization. I'm sure you considered it, what are the reasons this solution wasn't selected ? Cost or complexity ?
And what about cloud instance dedicated to CPU usage ?
It just came as the path of least resistance. We upgraded all our devloper pcs a few years ago, so we had the old desktops just laying around. When the need came for a new server, it was easiest just to use the old desktops we had on hand.
We recently bought and assembled some high-end PCs, with the hope to gauge performance, speed up running tests, and potentially consolidate the number of servers we are maintaining internally. The two lucky CPUs were a i9-9980XE 18-core and a Ryzen 3900X 12-core.
We are using the time to complete our test suite in 'heavy mode' as a benchmark. Heavy mode basically saves and reloads the game each tick, and compares a CRC of the map from before and after. It is super slow to run, but the heavy test is critical to help find any possible determinism issues. There is some more info on 'heavy mode' in ...
Read moreDo the turrets focus on more heavily damaged objects or is it random?
A bit of both
So are new feature releases going to be on the stable branch or will they first come out on the experimental Branch?
We are planning that they will come out as experimental 0.17 releases. So it is very possible we could reach 0.17.100 within a few months.
Hello,
technically this post is the Pi Friday Facts, but unfortunately we can't think of anything special to do... maybe someone can make a Combinator cake... that can calculate Pi?
We released 0.17.69 as stable this Tuesday. It seems it all went very smoothly, no avalanche of crashes, and only a handful of technical support emails about updating video drivers.
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Apart from stable, essentially no development work has happened this week; nearly everyone is on vacation (I am even writing this as I sit in the airport waiting to fly to London for a wedding). We're hoping that at the start of next week, with all the relaxation over, and the pressure of stable off our shoulders, w...
Read moreI got to ask if I may, are you able to support your self developing loping just factorio? It's an amazing game and you have done a great job, but not sure if it still gets enough new sales for you to live on. Feel free not to answer if too personal.
we still have over 500 sales a day, enough to keep us going.
RTS unit control
What? Where?
I guess he means this: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Unit_Control
Hey can you make a mod based on just zooping all items in a logistic network to replace bots? It would make for some great throughput!
Oh no please don't tempt me
When can we get build system based on this, like alterniteve to robots?
Yea... I was thinking of doing some scope/feature creep to let them rebuild ghosts...
New trailer when?
1.0 👌
wait. is this a mod? or is this official? i havent player in a long time
Its a mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Repair_Turret
So now the repair turrets require repair packs to work. If they don't have any in their own inventory, they will look for one in the logistic network, and it will be 'zooped' over the network, draining some electric energy on each hop.
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It has been 6 months and nearly 70 releases since we first launched 0.17 to the world. Now is the time to let it be enjoyed by all the players of the game. We are going to be continuing our work on 0.17 over the next few months, with small experimental releases of new features, and finishing all the GUI reworks.
The new map editor can be accessed directly in-game with the /editor command. Packed with new features and improvements, such as cloning tools, multiple surface support, and time control. The new editor also allows collaborative map e...
Read moreHey there. I loving this mod, but I have one small criticism. I got my builder bot army up to about 420 now and I'm using them to build lots of things, including placing concrete. They aren't very efficient at it though, it's a lot of labor. So they will frequently stop at roboports to power up. The problem is that these towers will also recharge the robots, except they are very slow at it and only charge one robot at a time. So I tend to have hundreds of robots sitting around the towers waiting for their turn to charge up.
If you could address this somehow it would be great. The way it is now I'd rather they not charge robots at all.
Just noticed one more thing: the robots are sapping all the power from the tower while they recharge, and the tower doesn't have enough juice to perform repairs.
Could you send me the save game for testing?
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