Gizmos Car Keys (improved)

by Pi-C

Tired of running to your vehicle? Then let it come to you! This mod is based on "Gizmos Car Keys" by aodgizmo. It works with most modded car and spider-vehicle prototypes -- not just vanilla cars.

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3 months ago
0.17 - 1.1
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i Update to 2.0?

a month ago

I was wondering if you plan on porting this to 2.0? I guess it will not be straightforward, since teleporting vehicles with ~80 inventory would be way too powerful, so maybe one vehicle per surface instead? Or will you not bring this to 2.0 in general? Love this mod and would like to keep using it! Thanks :)

a month ago

I definitely intend on updating all my mods. However, Factorio 2.0 made a lot of changes, and some of my mods (including GCKI) are rather script-heavy, so it will take some time until I can update and sufficiently test them.

I guess it will not be straightforward, since teleporting vehicles with ~80 inventory would be way too powerful, so maybe one vehicle per surface instead?

Oh, my … I haven't even thought in this direction so far but I guess that may be an issue in Space Age. So far, I haven't bought the DLC – I'm not sure whether this would even make sense as I probably wouldn't get around to playing with it anyhow and there is so much in vanilla Factorio I haven't explored yet. (Believe it or not: last time I played for real was when Factorio 0.18 was still a thing, and I've never launched even one rocket there. Since that time, all I did was loading saved games provided by others or setting up testing environments, just so I could debug my mods …)

From what I've seen in the Lua API documentation, surfaces may be associated with planets or space platforms. Perhaps it would make sense to generally forbid teleporting vehicles that are on a platform, and to allow cross-surface teleports of vehicles only to surfaces belonging to the same planet? Don't know, as I can't test this … :-)

a month ago

Thanks for the reply!
Yeah, that sounds rough...
I think each planet is one surface (but don't cite me on that, i have not read the docs, just how i think Space exploration did it pre-2.0), so i would guess simply disallowing teleports between surfaces would be sufficient here maybe?

In any case, if you need help testing things with SA, i'd be happy to test a few things for you :)

a month ago

Oh I'm glad this will (eventually) get upgraded to 2.0 !
I miss this mod so much ... 😅

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