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Do base your believe that Factorio is under-optimised on anything specific? The Factorio devs regularly put out blog posts on the optimisations they have done,
by jasamer 4y ago
Do base your believe that Factorio is under-optimised on anything specific?
The Factorio devs regularly put out blog posts on the optimisations they have done, like [1][2][3] (and many others), and they have done so for a long time. This gives me the opposite impression.
[1] https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-322 https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-322
[2] https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-281 https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-281
[3] https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-209 https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-209
- ftlio 4y agoI think specifically for multiplayer, you could handle non-visible chunks on the server and figure out a better way to update the client with what it needs, rather than requiring the client to handle the full simulation. I know it’s a well optimized piece of software, but when you get into something like the space mod with multiple worlds, where chunks you might not deal with for a long time still tax you, you can see how there’s conceivably a lot that could be done. So, yeah, wrong to say “under optimized”. I’m also aware that they haven’t been optimizing for a massive multi-world server with tons of clients. I definitely don’t mean it as a dig or that they aren’t top class.