I really support this proposal. How often do I cringe when thinking about whether to use manual (high risk of collision) or automatic (have to find/set a destination).
Great Idea!

To tag on an aside suggestion. I would really like a hotkey to toggle a train between manual/auto. A mod had it as J ...

An additional use case:

- turning off the portable roboport before an alien base raid to prevent robots from getting out and being killed (they get out if your tank is damaged)

Or even more typical to bots being damaged, a wall that is damaged and you use flamethrower to defend it while its ...

The more I think about it the more I think it really has some potential - especially the resource patches also providing the aliens with new defensive/offensive abilities but dependent on where that base is located (making aliens more interested because they are more dynamic. It would make it more ...

Nicely structured proposal Syrchalis
I like the ideas. I'm not a sure that all points would be a perfect fit for the game but there certainly are some concepts worth integrating - and the rest are on the right track.
The core of what we are discussing here I think is, "What is the point of Aliens ...

If you really want faster, more expensive inserters then I'd suggest another kind of inserter technology altogether. It doesn't make sense for these awkward, mechanical non-lubricated arms to be moving perfectly at lightning speed. There should be a more streamlined device that moves more product ...

Although I am sure there are many more items we would all like prioritized ahead of this as well as items that the devs find way more important at the moment, yet this 'bot-task priority by proximity' would still be a really great feature to add at some point in the future.

Forgive my ignorance on ...

Wonderful explanation, thanks very much for taking the time to write it. Impressive the effort required to finesse these sprites into position.

Over the years I frequently find myself gravitating towards writing scripts to solve repetitive tasks for efficiently sake and to insure consistency ...

I agree, it could really use a boarder indicator of some sort when pollution is really low but still active. And this is all thats needed to trigger alien attacks.

++1!

I feel like everyone doesn't actually understand how to select things in the book correctly... everyone knows you can hold it in the world and scroll through it right? Seeing the live selected blueprint as the preview in the world without having the GUI open?
Sorry but that sentence seems a ...

I don't understand why every tree and rock type is available. Just make 1 rock and 1 tree refer to all within the deconstruction planner. Then situations like this would be solved very simply.

TLDR; Simplify deconstruction planner's filters for rocks and trees

Because it's presenting a list of ...

What if the items are not matching in the chest? You will lose the track totally.

My counter suggestion: Add logistic personal robots. They can put the stuff in the trash slots into the next free storage chests...

Thanks for responding ssilk.

I don't quite understand what you are saying on the ...

I'm all for these.

Currently the closest option is using the pipette tool on a ghost - which pops the object into your hand. The downside is that currently if that building had any presets from a blueprint (eg. assemblers), they are wiped. This is really very annoying and should have been ...

You seem to be missing a very important point. Creation of initial power generation system is a difficult job for any new player.

I disagree. Current power system is very simple and straightforward and beginner, even schoolkid, can easily make working system by trial and error. My 11 year old ...

Better still, allow a drop down of saved filter presets for a single deconstruction planner. This would save hunting for a specific filter. If deconstruction planners were made to be exported the string would have to include the saved preset list within them.

Given that placing ghosts is a thing, it'd be nice if we could use the same feature to add stuff to blueprints directly.
We can already have any imaginable blueprint anyway by simply creating it in another game and saving it locally, so it'd just make 'creating the right blueprint' or 'fixing this ...

TL;DR: Create/Edit/Test Blueprints in new Creative Layer

Followed over from Suggestion [Versioning for blueprints] https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=48926

Given that placing ghosts is a thing, it'd be nice if we could use the same feature to add stuff to blueprints directly.
We can ...

If the compromise is that the player is slow - like game start speed slow, the only advantages to the player is a huge ease of life increase so the player can manage equipment without being moved about. I think it could be as simple as a research upgrade to the exo,. perhaps (instead of require ...

Some interesting / effective solutions proposed.

At this point, I have a feeling that its going to be hard to convince the devs to be lenient on these matters with a few features and a million bugs yet to resolve..

Personally, I am for anything that makes Factorio more Realistic! ... Because ...

Yes, this would be really useful. Please add
+1

I don't understand why every tree and rock type is available. Just make 1 rock and 1 tree refer to all within the deconstruction planner. Then situations like this would be solved very simply.

TLDR; Simplify deconstruction planner's filters for rocks and trees