Roadmap/History

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Refer to the Roadmap/Coming Releases for the future. Please refer also to the Version History, which include also much more details about the changes.

Automatic Factorio updater
- no need for manual download anymore
Usability improvements
- better visualisation for building railroads
- electricity statistics
- fixes of ongoing bugs
- loads of small improvements (things like alt info for wagons, easier semaphore building, etc.)
Graphics Gui rework
- the design for the new gui is ready and now it will be implemented
Railroads improvements
- Train path finding uses signals for path recalculation
- Train can go backwards (when having locomotives on both ends)
- different Train stops can be merged into one station
God mode
- play without the character

Game determinism and replay
- This is a first step towards the multiplayer
- Involves the replay functionality improvements (pause, fast forward, etc.)
First version of the scenario pack
- There will be three scenarios to start with
Trains
- Originally a stretch goal however we got a lot of requests for this
- There is already some functionality for the trains in the game and we want to finish it
Electricity improvements
- Accumulator entity
- Large electric pole
- Electric substation

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