multiplayer question

[Richy]

Is this possible? we are playing factorio on coop and its very enjoyable and was wondering if you could describe if we might like game based on that and if multiplayer is possible / easy to setup ?

[whatamidoing]

The game is officially singleplayer only. There's a mod that allows multiplayer, but it's VERY finicky at best and has stopped working for me on saves in the past, only throwing errors whenever someone tries to connect.

[Kortak]

Originally posted by Richy:

Is this possible? we are playing factorio on coop and its very enjoyable and was wondering if you could describe if we might like game based on that and if multiplayer is possible / easy to setup ?

Im playing rimworld COOP with the multiplayer mod and it works perfectly (on LAN hosted, not throught steam, with arbiter joining. You do need to check if the mod is compatible with the multiplayer mod

Im currently running 40 mods with it without problems.

However its possible you can install mods that are not compatible . But the list of mods compatible is large

[whatamidoing]

Originally posted by Kortak:

Originally posted by Richy:

Is this possible? we are playing factorio on coop and its very enjoyable and was wondering if you could describe if we might like game based on that and if multiplayer is possible / easy to setup ?

Im playing rimworld COOP with the multiplayer mod and it works perfectly (on LAN hosted, not throught steam, with arbiter joining. You do need to check if the mod is compatible with the multiplayer mod

Im currently running 40 mods with it without problems.

However its possible you can install mods that are not compatible . But the list of mods compatible is large

Mine's broken and stopped letting people join with nothing but the game (with and without the dlc) and multiplayer itself (and its requirement) installed. Rely on it at your own risk.

[Kortak]

Originally posted by whatamidoing:

Originally posted by Kortak:

Im playing rimworld COOP with the multiplayer mod and it works perfectly (on LAN hosted, not throught steam, with arbiter joining. You do need to check if the mod is compatible with the multiplayer mod

Im currently running 40 mods with it without problems.

However its possible you can install mods that are not compatible . But the list of mods compatible is large

Mine's broken and stopped letting people join with nothing but the game (with and without the dlc) and multiplayer itself (and its requirement) installed. Rely on it at your own risk.

Thats usually mod conflicts creeping in your game. Or mods not compatible what i explained. Easy to fix and to prevent. I dont have those issues

[whatamidoing]

Originally posted by Kortak:

Originally posted by whatamidoing:

Mine's broken and stopped letting people join with nothing but the game (with and without the dlc) and multiplayer itself (and its requirement) installed. Rely on it at your own risk.

Thats usually mod conflicts creeping in your game. Or mods not compatible what i explained. Easy to fix and to prevent. I dont have those issues

Mod conflicts with no mods besides what's strictly necessary for multiplayer and a clean config folder?

[Kortak]

Originally posted by Richy:

Is this possible? we are playing factorio on coop and its very enjoyable and was wondering if you could describe if we might like game based on that and if multiplayer is possible / easy to setup ?

if you like coop building. Try out
- Satisfactory
- Scrap mechanic
- Portal Knights
- Stationeers (hardcore game in beta still)

all very fun COOP games to build together. Rimworld is not really like factorio

[Kortak]

Originally posted by whatamidoing:

Originally posted by Kortak:

Thats usually mod conflicts creeping in your game. Or mods not compatible what i explained. Easy to fix and to prevent. I dont have those issues

Mod conflicts with no mods besides what's strictly necessary for multiplayer and a clean config folder?

Not really getting what you trying to accomplish. I have no issues with 40 mods running multiplayer for about 150 hours now. So its probably fixable...Cant look into your skills of coarse.

[whatamidoing]

Originally posted by Kortak:

Originally posted by whatamidoing:

Mod conflicts with no mods besides what's strictly necessary for multiplayer and a clean config folder?

Not really getting what you trying to accomplish. I have no issues with 40 mods running multiplayer for about 150 hours now. So its probably fixable...Cant look into your skills of coarse.

"What I was trying to accomplish" was working multiplayer. Maybe it works perfectly on your machine, but it doesn't on mine (and others, when I've seen multiplayer brought up here in the past, or in the comments of the mod), and that's something OP should know. I'm not more skilled than the mod developer, of course, so if it's broken I'm not even going to bother.

[Kortak]

Originally posted by whatamidoing:

Originally posted by Kortak:

Not really getting what you trying to accomplish. I have no issues with 40 mods running multiplayer for about 150 hours now. So its probably fixable...Cant look into your skills of coarse.

"What I was trying to accomplish" was working multiplayer. Maybe it works perfectly on your machine, but it doesn't on mine (and others, when I've seen multiplayer brought up here in the past, or in the comments of the mod), and that's something OP should know. I'm not more skilled than the mod developer, of course, so if it's broken I'm not even going to bother.

Everything that has a 4 has no problems with multiplayer mod. All my mods are on that list.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jaDxV8F7bcz4E9zeIRmZGKuaX7d0kvWWq28aKckISaY/htmlview

I have 4 with a yellow 3. One gave me a desync on the birth of a baby which was just a rejoin. Thats it.never had troubles except not using mods that are not compatible.

Im on 1.2 All mods are 1.2 compatible and display a green 4 in the mod list. Theorder does matter in that list. need to see where you place the mods because mods can conflict (overwrite each other in a wrong way).

When i have troubles I clear the config map . I never use old saves. Always start fresh when i add a new mod.

thats it... hope it can work for you too (or not if you have given up).. happy gaming.

Also when i host i disable steam because i host on LAN. (3 computers same room, 3 people playing rimworld together, same household.) your problem could be steam and connectivity. But cant oversee that from here

[Kittenpox]

Originally posted by Richy:

Is this possible? we are playing factorio on coop and its very enjoyable and was wondering if you could describe if we might like game based on that and if multiplayer is possible / easy to setup ?

Definitely give Satisfactory a look, if you enjoy the building aspect of Factorio. :-)
Some friends and I used to play it on Epic, but it's on Steam now as I understand it.

Rimworld is quite a different beast, and very much designed for single-player.

[whatamidoing]

Originally posted by Kortak:

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Yes, I've done all that. The load order was this:

Harmony
Core
Royalty
Multiplayer

and after a while it refused to let someone, also on physical, cable-connecting-pc-to-pc lan, connect, throwing some map error or something I can't remember.

[Kortak]

Originally posted by whatamidoing:

Originally posted by Kortak:

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Yes, I've done all that. The load order was this:

Harmony
Core
Royalty
Multiplayer

and after a while it refused to let someone, also on physical, cable-connecting-pc-to-pc lan, connect, throwing some map error or something I can't remember.

ouch, royalty..thats DLC right. The new one. That could potentially break a lot. I would imagine it will... Dont have it

I have these mods

https://steamcommunity.com/id/kortak/myworkshopfiles/?appid=294100&browsefilter=mysubscriptions