Awesome work Klonan. We will definitely look into hosting a game at Comfy. I've been dreaming of such a game mode for a long time. Not only PVP but also allow admins to "role play" bit biters and wreck havock among humans..
If you need any help or want any features in the mod to make it possible, let me know. I would love to see it run on a big server
Idea: Add a system to limit the amount of players who are in the hive if it doesn't exist already. That way you can have 1 or 2 people as part of the hive vs a bunch of factory workers
There is support to limit the number of 'Hive players'. For now I have it just limited by the max number of forces the game can support
This may be a stupid question but how do you actually swap teams?
There is a button in the top left you can click to join the hive. (If it doesn't show up, let me know).
Oh god, I always asked for this. But is there some kind of AI from the side of humans?
No... I would be lost for many moons if I were to try such a thing.
Is the factory prebuilt, or do you first play as the builder and then switch over?
You can switch to and from a hive at any time. For this demo and for testing, I just loaded a save game and switched teams.
There is an intention that people will play PvP, where some players build a factory while others are controlling hives to try to destroy it.
Been working on this mod for a while, with thoughts of it for a long time.
With 0.17, I had all the ingredients to make it work, I hope you will enjoy: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Hive_Mind
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The problem with rail building is that it has too many states. It depends whether you start building the rail with shift, to use the ghost mode or not, and then it also matters whether you still hold shift, to ignore trees or not. Moving from manual building to ghost rail building means cancelling the whole rail building and starting it again with the correct modifier.
The problems were reaching the surface from time to time, and Twinsen even drew a nice little state diagram of the rail building system.
It kind of peaked with this bug report. After some time, it became clear that we should...
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