FactorioBox things
2020-05-17
FactorioBox has been getting some traction lately. I’ve been reluctant to share it because of a couple of missing features.
For one, the main goal is to collect and share benchmarks on various hardware configurations to let users find the best and/or most cost effective hardware they can buy for Factorio. I’ve gotten a lot of data at this point and the only thing lacking is a nice way to sort it to see which CPUs perform the best with the same memory and visa versa. The list of Factorio versions is also getting a bit unruly.
My current plan is to add a sidebar much like PCPartPicker’s with filter options including CPU model, memory clock, Factorio version, and possibly a list of curated maps if I ever get around to adding more. Range selection will be enabled for fields that make sense. On top of that, duplicate results will be removed and the highest will be shown (or top 90% if I find it necessary.) This will allow for much better analysis by users.
Eventually I would also like to add functionality to benchmark multiple maps against each other, but that would require designing better data analysis on maps, especially compared to other maps. I would also need to figure out how to more efficiently store the data as the database is already taking up a large amount of space for the relatively small amount of raw data there is.