Originally posted by ChristianNilaus

Dear Wube

Since the "mega packet" update MP has been frustrating to play due to rubber-banding and latency. This manifests most obviously when you take a small step and it moved 4-5 tiles instead of <1 tile as it should. This is not always happening, but certainly more than 50% of the time.

I have played on the same server for many months and it suddenly went from "usual MP latency" to "OMG I CANNOT CONTROL MY CHARACTER!1!" from one day to the next. I have asked around and it seems this is commonly experienced.

Is this one of your 28 remaining bugs? if so I would like to upvote that in your backlog if possible ;)

Originally posted by Roxas146

So G2A gets to choose the auditing company? I'm sure that the auditors will be completely objective and reasonable towards the company that's paying them for an audit!

Originally posted by loozerr

There's a third possibility for why people are buying gifts and selling them under market price - skins are a huge market and it's one of the ways to liquidate money sitting on a steam account. So people can obtain skins (legit ways like loot boxes, gray areas like hosting trade websites, and outright scams like skin casinos and phishing accounts), sell them on Steam market and turn it into actual cash.

Originally posted by Illiander

Sorry for my ignorance, but who are G2A and why are they shady?

eli5 for me?

Originally posted by RexKoeck

If build 46132 was released as version 0.17.56, then releasing 46133 should be done as 0.17.57. I wouldn't ever expect to see two releases with the same version but with different build numbers.

Originally posted by AdmHielor

Updated my local copy via steam, updated my server via the linux updater script, I get the following error:

Version mismatch detected!

You are running version 0.17.56 (build 46133, win64, steam)

Server is running version 0.17.56 (build 46132, win64, steam)

Originally posted by audigex

Raise your hand if you feel personally victimised by Factorio’s multiplayer desyncs

Originally posted by Rybec

I do not understand how which entity other players are hovering their cursor over is relevant to the global gamestate. Wouldn't including an entity ID when they actually interact with something negate the need for all these entity selection actions? I'm sure there's much more to it than this; you guys are not ones to have frivolous ineffeciencies. I'm just not seeing it.

Originally posted by NameLips

I think of these sorts of Friday Facts when people whine about Factorio's price. This isn't some quickly thrown together game that took a month for one guy to make, it has a team of paid employees who have spent years of their life (and career) developing it full-time. This dude spent 2 weeks hunting down a multiplayer bug that only becomes an issue in games with over 200 people in it. In so doing he tracked down a bunch of smaller issues that were probably a really good idea to fix. This is a bug that it's unlikely that any of us will ever personally experience, but it still was incredibly worthwhile to track down and squash. In the end multiplayer is more rock-solid for everybody.

And then people hop on Reddit to whine that $30 is way too much to spend on a video game. The ongoing sales of Factorio pay this guy's rent. It's why he could devote two weeks of his life to an issue most of us can barely understand. It's why we're getting such a solid product. But no...

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