Uh, I like that. A side effect would be that you'd use poles only for the circuit network, thus making it much easier to see where your signals are going.

Your factory extracts oil from the pipe, only what's left is displayed.

@mrvn

Splitting the networks wouldn't really work for me, i'm afraid. The setup with the combinators and different chests would be an option, I guess - albeit a rather complicated one.

Actually my prime use for the active providers is closely related to the crude oil barrels. The belt that carries empty barrels from my pumping station to the train station from which they are redistributed to the oil fields contains an "overflow valve" that empties into some active provid...

Hmm, I somehow failed to find these other posts when I searched for this prior to posting my request. Sorry for that, but at least it's in the list now.

I think it would be quite enough to use the same control system for the car as for the normal character sprite. My brain seems to be unable to switch from screen based to character based coordinate systems in any way that's close to reliable. I dodged the cars and tanks completely now and use power ...

This is not something you'd find too useful in the "regular" game, it comes into play only if you do certain late-game things. In my current game, I built up my base until the first satellite was up in the air. After that I could not really keep on going with that base as it wasn't scalabl...

It would be very useful to have chests that behave like a provider chest, but exclusively provide items to construction bots. When building outposts, one could place requesters for the required materials, feed their contents into those "construction chests" and then have construction bots ...