Slitherine

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Sooner or later this game will start to die

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Wube was already a multi-person team

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ORIGINAL: MH-60Deuce

After one year we are still kept from doing mods for the game and only allowed to do visual modding and need to go along with the slow development without being allowed to add/customize content on our own.

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Sooner or later this game will start to die and by that time there will be nobody around anymore to do mods or to keep the games alive. That is what also happened to the previous titles.

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ORIGINAL: ernieschwitz

The previous titles were all very modable. There was an editor for each of them. So if they are "dead", not being modable was not one of the reasons. :)

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The big part of the work on the modding capabilities of Factorio was done during the days we were unsure about the its future. Working on something that could be used to extend the game that we were not sure anyone would play at all was looking useless. Hopefully we are still here, and new mods are arising. Some of the mods are simple but useful, like the TIme buttons, that is patching the lack of time speed configuration in-game, some are just tempting to be used because of the pictures, like Mocombat, for people that found the production chains not complex enough, there are the content-based mods like Dy tech, F-Mod and more. The growing variety of mods can only exist because modders pushed us to extend the moddability regulary and it proved more than once, that the extended interface was handy to have later even in the core Factorio, not mentioning that mods are also great incubators for new ideas that could grow into the vanilla game. So after all, we rate the time invested on modabbility to be well spent.
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ORIGINAL: MH-60Deuce

After one year we are still kept from doing mods for the game and only allowed to do visual modding and need to go along with the slow development without being allowed to add/customize content on our own.

Sooner or later this game will start to die and by that time there will be nobody around anymore to do mods or to keep the games alive. That is what also happened to the previous titles.

Don´t be so afraid that modders may take your ideas away. This would be a win win sutation for everybody but perhaps it is already late as much attention is gone and many talents left already because of this restrictions and they missed the opportunity again

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ORIGINAL: Mina

The idea that modding support is a necessity for long-term communities also flies in the face of games that still have significant modding communities in the total absence of any tools or documentation to do so. Mods get created when people want to create them, and official support is not a requirement for that to happen.

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ORIGINAL: OrnluWolfjarl

I understand that implementing mod support takes quite some effort. I don't mind waiting, and I don't think this game will die out. The game is already quite popular among grand strategy and 4X communities. The people who play these kinds of games usually stick around for a long long time, and even if they leave, they will hear about the game having mod support and return to experiment with mods.

I do wish that Vic would make visual modding easier, by lifting the restrictions on the number of images that can be contained in a folder. For example, it's crazy that we only get 34 flag emblems and if we want to add more, we need to replace them with the old ones.

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ORIGINAL: OrnluWolfjarl
they will hear about the game having mod support and return to experiment with mods.