Wouldn't it be great if you could play Factorio on two screens?

[Dude]

You could display various parameters of the factory on the second screen.

[Chindraba]

Multi-monitor like that would be stellar.

Main screen is the current project, either in-person or the full remote-view thing. Secondary monitor, if only two, could be a window of production stats, another of platform routes and progressions, repeat for train system overview, with a third window of tabs to monitor different 'pinned' locations.

Add a third monitor and you could move the stats, platform and train overviews there and expand the potential areas to monitor in PiP windows, like a security center camera setup, on the 2nd monitor.

Of course, there's probably a dozen, or more, variations. Yes... Multi-monitor would be super sweet.

[~ Diviad ~]

That sounds more like a multiple window approach, independent of monitors, but Cool Idea 😎

[Chindraba]

If you want the game on multiple monitors you can make it windowed mode and stretch it across them all. The bezels make that a less-than appealing choice, and still has the information only available as overlays to the game area. To "display various parameters of the factory on the second screen" would, in my understanding, require that those parameters also me in a different 'window' to be placed on a second monitor.

[Zaflis]

You could have 2 clients connected on a selfhosted multiplayer server. You can start the website downloaded game version twice if you use different nickname. Second monitor could have remote view active somewhere or things like that, maybe one should make a mod to provide more UI overlays if needed.