How Important Is Multiplayer Support?

I'm just trying to gauge how important the feature is. I have never seriously played multiplayer in Factorio. Is it a core feature that people need to consider a tasks mod?

I do want to have it eventually, and will probably make multiplayer the 1.0.0 release but since there are other task mods that have it, I plan to focus on a few more features first.

I think tasks in multiplayer are even more important than in single player. But that's the wrong question. We are not debating whether we want to play multiplayer depending on you supporting it or not. It's just the question if your mod is better than other todo mods and can we actually use it. We can't so debate is over.

I think the groups are a very useful feature and I'd very much try it out if it supported multiplayer. Of course then you should implement a player assignment feature for coordination.

Thanks for the feedback!

Maybe I worded my question weirdly, I meant more that "In terms of core features how high does multiplayer support land?" But now that I think about it, I have most of what I consider "core features". That's my bad.

Since it's my first mod I limited the scope to single player so I could release into a sort of beta. Unfortunately multiplayer support will require a lot of changes to the code. I am slowly working towards it though; the last release didn't have many features, but I did spend about 10 hours refactoring partly to fix a scroll bar bug and partly to prepare for refreshes to windows in multiplayer.

I'll try to do some testing and research into how long the multiplayer update will take, then I'll make an announcement post with a timeline.