Wow, nice job Klonan. This looks really good. Glad to see you doing cool projects. Do you think this will make it to the main game? I assume you’ve spoken to Kovarex about it already.
Right now I don't think the concept it fleshed out enough, even remotely, to be good enough as a main game addition.
It would also slow down the 1.0 release, which nobody would want.
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
Nice
Nice
I wonder why Factorio PvP is not so big. (I also have never tried.)
Are there rules, like you cannot attack each other until a certain time limit or tech threshold?? I guess if the win is determined by a tech goal, that keeps things on track...?
There are many configuration options in the PvP scenario: screenshot
So you can create a match to suit the people who are going to play it.
You can also set it up so you don't even fight each other, just working cooperatively from separate factories with independent research.
This is fixed in the latest release.
The game doesn't have any built in API for building and moving, You will have to build it from constituent methods.
For instance building is just creating an entity and removing an item.
Moving is done by seting the walking state each tick: https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaControl.html#LuaControl.walking_state
Etc.
Is that splitter change already out or still to come (I don't remember reading it in relnotes)?
Its out already
The only real change for players is that Splitters need 20% more items for the belt to be fully backed up which is kind of insignificant.
I just want to make sure I understood that correctly. In order to have 30 items/s on a belt I'll need a production of 36 items/s?
No, just when backing up, the splitters will buffer a few extra items: https://gfycat.com/DizzyBossyGnatcatcher
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