[Guía Factorio] Guía para iniciados y koalas

[Kieso]

Gracias por la información Nadia, de verdad que da gusto ver gente que se apasiona por su trabajo y hecha pa´lante!

[Ancalagon]

http://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-91

The unexpected optimisation

We were wondering why is Factorio eating so big amount of ram. We made investigation and we found out, that the graphics library we use is using 2 versions of memory bitmap backup, which isn't really needed (one is enough). We made a hacky change/fix in the library and running Factorio now requires 500Mb less, which is around 40% reduction. The effect will be even bigger with graphics intense mods installed.

"Nos preguntábamos por qué Factorio se estaba comiendo tanta RAM. Nos pusimos a investigar y nos encontramos que la librería gráfica que usamos utiliza dos versiones de memory bitmap backup, lo cual no es realmente necesario (con una basta). Hicimos un cambio rápido en la librería y ahora Factorio necesita 500 MB menos, una reducción alrededor de un 40%. El efecto es aún mayor con mods con muchos gráficos."

Sorpresón. Con esto podría yo poner los gráficos normales (que ya puedo, pero los dejo en low porque también quiero tener el Chrome abierto).

[nadia911]

Bien!! Si bien no he tenido problemas de rendimiento siempre es de agradecer que no me estresen el PC

[Maulet]

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-124

Friday Facts #124 - Steam Status I
Posted by Tomas on 2016-02-05, all posts

Hi there,

the Steam date is looming and we haven't been sitting with the hands in our lap just waiting. So here comes a report of what is going on and what will change with the Steam release on 25th of Feb 2016.
The Price

We have decided that the Steam release is a good opportunity to adjust the price of the game. The referential game price will be set to 20€ / 20$ (well 19.95$ because that is how Steam rolls). Steam has a feature of providing different pricing in different countries and we will probably follow their recommended pricing in this regard. Which means that in countries with generally lower purchasing power the game might be cheaper than that. The game price at the webpage will be set to 20€ as well to match the Steam referential price.

There are couple of reasons for increasing the price. But the most important ones are:

We feel the game is closing a stable and feature rich state that justifies such a price (judging by other games in the market).
Scenario pack will become part of the basegame which adds more content (see details below).
Naturally Steam will take their share from every copy sold for distributing the game (however this is expected to be more than offset by the amount of potential new players).
We need $$$ for world domination=) And besides houses in the Hawaii have become more expensive lately ...

So the bottom line is: if you have a friend who is still hesitant about buying the game now and the price difference would matter to him / her, let him / her know =)
The Keys

Every user who has bought some version of our membership will have a possibility to get a Steam key for the game. This will most probably be implemented via an interface at our website. What I have in mind is a simple form in the User profile page which will assign a Steam key upon request (clicking the request button=)). This functionality is not yet programmed but it will be done very soon and available together with the Steam launch. Steam doesn't have a web api to generate Steam keys, but we will prefetch a (hopefully) substantial amount of those and then assign them to users automatically from this batch.

Our current approach is that the player's account at the website will co-exist with the Steam account (if requested). That means that player can download the game from our webpage or via the Steam. His / her choice. This is provided as a convenience for the existing players and the generated Steam keys are not meant to be distributed / given / sold to other people. We will put a clause about this into Terms & Conditions. In case that a significant portion of Steam keys would be given away / sold to other people then we reserve the right to alter the approach. One option would be that the game would be available via Steam or via our webpage but not both. Hopefully that won't be necessary=).

We haven't made a decision yet, whether unpaid memberships will be able to get the steam key as well. This includes memberships given out for free in promotions (i.e. over the Youtube, Twitch) and testing in the early stages of development. If you are unsure what your membership is, you can check it out at your profile page when logged in.
The Scenario Pack

Starting with the game release on Steam, the Scenario Pack will be distributed together with the basic game itself. This is quite a big change=) Our motivations are following:

We believe that Scenario pack contains some really interesting content that gives prominence to different aspects of the game than the Campaign and the Freeplay. Exposing this to wider audience feels right.
Having the Scenario Pack in the base package (and not as a paid content) takes away some pressure for updating it. Though we still have ideas for additional scenarios / mini campaigns.
Adding the Scenario Pack gives more justification to increased price.

The Tiers & The Content

There will be no tiers on Steam. There will simply be one package with the game itself, which will also include the content of the scenario pack. The wallpapers will be made public for download. The 0.12 features a new soundtrack. We plan to make this available for purchase as a standalone DLC. This is meant for users who want to support us and our music composer beyond the scope of the game. This is probably all there will be available to begin with. We might add a possibility to get the name in the game as DLC in the future, but that is not decided yet.

On our webpage the tiers will be reduced to Transport Belt Repair Man (might lose the fancy name and become just "The Package"). This will be the game itself with the content of the scenario pack (same as on Steam). It is not clear yet if we sell the soundtrack as DLC on our webpage as well.

These changes come partly from the incentive to have the same content available on the Steam as on our webpage. Also there has been little attention from our side to update the content in the Furnace Attendant and Mining Drill Operator tiers. For instance the wallpapers or the graphical handbook are ridiculously outdated. We really appreciate players who have supported us by purchasing these tiers, however we feel that most of that additional content has become obsolete and it is time for a goodbye or reintegration to the basic game (as in case of scenario pack).
The Marketing

Scott has moved to Prague and has been working with us in our office since the beginning of this week. He has been spending most of his time reaching out to youtubers / streamers / bloggers and other potential marketing sources. Basically we are trying to prepare a sort of a "general public hit" alongside the Steam release. Even though we are directly "pushing the game out there" we would still appreciate the help from you guys, the community. We will be sending out a "call to arms" email when the game has launched officially notifying existing players that the game is now available on Steam. When the game has launched, it would be great to see existing players come over to leave a review, help out new players from Steam or invite their friends to join them for a game of Multiplayer. However if there is something you feel you could do to help promote the game even before it launches on Steam (i.e. recommending it to your favorite youtuber) that would be of a great help too.
The Trailers

As announced earlier, to celebrate the Steam launch we have decided to make another trailer. This new trailer (we call it Trailer 3 or Gameplay Trailer) is a collection of mostly real scenes from the game giving the taste of how the game is actually played. After heroic effort coming mostly from Albert, this has been finished by now. It will be made public on the launch. Something for you guys to look forward=)

The current trailer has been visually (and a bit in terms of content as well) improved and will also be made public with the game launch. We call this one Trailer 2 or the Teaser, because it gives a taste of what the game is about.

And to add a bit of nostalgy, do many of you still remember the very first trailer (Trailer 1) which we made for the Indiegogo campaign? It was made in less than a week and then re-made within a few hours before the launch of the crowdfunding campaign (which happend at 8 a.m. after a sleepless night). Some of the phrases (voiceovered by a polish narrator) became kind of memes at a time (i.e. "fix fings"). Oh boy, that feels like in another life=)
The Bonus Screen

So to compensate for the wall of text below is a screenshot of one of the upcoming features in the 0.13. We have added a little side gui that will provide clickable shortcuts for couple of existing windows (i.e. Main Menu, Production Statistics) and couple of new windows. One of them is the Bonus Screen. This shows what Bonuses has the player researched / obtained. This is quite useful information which was not avaiable until now. Next week will be more focused on new features we are working for in 0.13. And it is imho quite interesting stuff, so stay tuned.

[Caid]

El juego salió hace un par de días en Steam.

A mi la verdad es que se me había pasado este hilo. Cuando lo vi en "nuevos lanzamientos" me llamó inmediatamente la atención... y tras informarme tengo que decir que da miedo el vicio que puede provocar

[Ronin]

El 99% de los analisis, mas de 1000 positivos. Tiene que ser genial, pero yo el video lo veo como un caos y me da la sensacion que llegado cierto nivel será ingobernable. Tanto engranaje como loco,viendo videos parece monotono repetitivo. Pero la fama de este juego le precede y no le queda otra que ser un gran juego. O eso o hay un alucinamiento colectivo

[zuekamo]

este es un excelente juego para que los críos aprendan lógica.

[nadia911]

Un juegazo con todas las letras, gracias a las guías de Haplo es fácil hacerse con él y continuamente lo están mejorando, recién van por la versión 0.12 y ya es genial, horas y horas de vicio os esperan, corred insensatos!!!!!

[Haplo_Patryn]

De repetitivo no tiene nada, al contrario. Cada mapa es un mundo, al final se acaba convirtiendo en un juego de trenes o de gestión de recursos o de exploración, etc. Un mundo. Al final pasa lo contrario de lo que dice Ronin: todo funciona de forma automática y los robots se encargan de producirlo todo, nosotros sólo tenemos que "dibujar" y los drones lo hacen todo.

[Caid]

He estado trasteando con la demo. Me preocupa que no he podido poner el juego a pantalla completa, y que dos de las tres campañas no me cargan.

¿A vosotros os da problemas el juego con Windows 10?

[Caid]

Me auto-respondo. La demo trae dos campañas que no funcionan. De momento el juego completo parece que funciona bien.

[Turilly]

Desde aquí quiero transmitirle a Haplo el odio que le está cogiendo mi novia. Es ver alguno de sus videos o guías, que transmiten un entusiasmo desbordante, y de inmediato me bajo una copia Sparrow. Compruebo que es interesante, y Steam me saca el dinero. Y ya a partir de ahí es tirarme un domingo entero encerrado en casa enganchado al juego de marras.

Para los que esteis dudando por temas de micromanejo, o que penseis que a gran escala el juego os puede desbordar, desechad esa idea. El juego trata precisamente de eso, lograr crear cadenas de trabajo que te quiten esa carga, y poco a poco ir optimizando el circuito para lograr mejoras en la producción. Reconozco que por ahora he jugado con la opción "pacífica", donde no recibes ataques, pero ese punto de crear una fortaleza mecánica que esquilma el planeta es lo que creo que le va a dar una rejugabilidad de cientos de horas.

Recomendado cien por cien. Entre este y Dominions, creo que hasta verano no me hará falta nada más.

[netskaven]

Juego recomendadisimo. Y otro en la misma linea aunque por aqui desconocido: Fortresscraft Evolved. Una fusion muy interesante de dos juegos estrella como son Minecraft y este Factorio. Tiene un potencial brutal.

[Haplo_Patryn]

Este es de esos juegos que marcan un camino, crean nuevos estilos de juego, como Minecraft por ejemplo que fue una revolución o el Dwarf Fortress. No tendrá quizás tanto impacto pero casi.

Pensad que ahora el siguiente paso es ir a la órbita del planeta donde nos estrellamos y construir una base orbital. Luego habrá que crear una nave en esa base que nos lleve a nuestro planeta de origen o bien a otro planeta, etc. Es decir, que este juego va a ser la pera ya que va a tener diversas capas de construcción y en diversos ambientes.

[Turilly]

Ya me pareció raro cuando me puse a jugar y ví que ya no era como en tus consejos, donde se trataba de preparar el planeta para la Flota. Si es verdad que vamos a ir cambiando de modos de juego, posiblemente cada vez con mayor escala (estoy pensando en algún tipo de ascensor espacial hacia la base) puede ser el juego de gestión-construcción más ambicioso de la historia.

Recordemos que la versión actual es la 0.12. Estamos hablando de que un juego sólido, con una cantidad de contenido tremenda, es solo el 12 % de lo que tienen pensado hacer. Esto es muuuuuy loco. Y no pensemos en multijugador, que ya se nos puede ir la cabeza.

Además creo que está en el punto justo de complicación-accesibilidad, porque por ejemplo el Fortresscraft me parece demasiado lioso con el tema de funcionar en primera persona. Llega un punto en que o eres un auténtico fanático, o la creación de circuitos que vayan corriendo en las tres dimensiones puede hacerte explotar la cabeza.