It would simplify my rail crossing blueprint. Right now I have to have normal and chain signal one after another because I have to both stop the train and make sure that it won't enter on the crossing if it have not enough space to leave the stop. I don't think this always works, though. Setting cha...

Just don't mix red and green signals before working with it. State of the art is to use red for requests and green for provider in the main power lines. Necessary signals can be split of or transmitted on the cables with combinators. Honestly i don't see a reason to implement this. You know, not ev...

Or it could make it faster because paths get blocked and don't need to be searched. I think that it would be faster if many trains would have set conditions that block some paths and slower if most of trains can go everywhere. Anyway, checking that conditions doesn't seem to be computable heavy so ...

bobingabout wrote:

Supercheese wrote:+1, I believe other mods like Bob's have this. I'd like to see it in vanilla as well.

I add a second tier of wall that uses it.

Is there something that you didn't add?

I agree.

... you wonder why they use inserters to buld cars while it would be much easier with assembly machines (and what research unlocks such advanced inserters anyway). ... you ask a gun dealer about a price of a laser turret so you can keep your annoying neighbors at distance. ... you wonder why you've ...

If you can't find the bug, it is 90% chance that this is thread synchronization.

I wouldn't really mind bitters destroying some pole every few hours. That would force me to make some redundancy and backup systems. However, after some time number of outpost increases and bitters become more aggressive. More and more power poles are destroyed and player is forced to repair them pe...

To everyone that propose to just create self-powered outpost: I wan't to remind you that electric poles can also have circuit network wires on them. ... Destroyed trains and power poles. Answer its big trains (i use 10loco+28mix wagons) behemoths gets run over without slowimg down. ... WOW, this is ...

I have nothing to add. (I generally agree with Deadly-Bagel.) I write this post only to subscribe to the discussion.

This would be very irritating to have to enable each placed logistic chests. Even bigger problem is where you are placing such chest via construction robots, in an outpost which is 5 minutes from where that player is. You can blueprint one disconnected chest, then place disconnected ghost, so bots ...

This would be very irritating to have to enable each placed logistic chests.
Even bigger problem is where you are placing such chest via construction robots, in an outpost which is 5 minutes from where that player is.

This! I want this (the OP request, not the musings afterwords) - Roboports should report negative values for the things they need for the constructors but don't have, OR, barring that, it should be a select-able toggle akin to 'read logistic network contents' or 'read robot statistics'. I have a be...

It would be especially useful because it would have a clear input and output. At this moment, blueprinted combinators create spaghetti-like mess. You have to put a lot of work to even mark where to connect input signals and where output ones. And if you place two such blueprints too close to each ot...

I agree. Even medium-sized blueprints tends to have so small entities that is it hard to read it. If blueprint is big and you trying to find and remove e.g. some additional electric poles which belongs to neighboring structuctures, then good luck, you'll need it.

Aeternus wrote:I'd advise to not do this, for a simple reason: It cannot be undone. If you misalign a blueprint you can accidentally fill in areas you need to stay water.

That's why you would have to press shift to confirm that.

I'll just leave that here: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=53863

DoppyNL wrote:Great idea, although I would prefer deconstruction planners to be added to existing books. Often they are related and it makes it easier to find them if they are in the same book.

+1

We definitely need that. Often you can't place wall close enough to a cliff to block passage. It is a real pain to try to connect them.

Automated landfill was removed as it was considered a cheat allowing player to create fully isolated islands. I suppose this is not coming back as well as "waterfill" for the same reason. You can make an isolated island manually without any problems. I doubt that automated landfill wouldn...