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Eternal Blueprints

Info:

• Allows to extend the life of in-game blueprints up 1 month long. Blueprint life is retro-active to already placed blueprints.
• Name: EternalBlueprints
• Latest Release: v0.0.2, Sept 9th, 2016
• Factorio Version: 0.13.x
• Download: Download from Github
• License: GPL3
• Dependencies: None!
• Tags: blueprint
• Author: gmyx

Simply Put, this mod allow to extend the life of blueprints. There are currently 9 levels.

Any blueprint already in place will be updated when you research the next level based on the current timer. There is a visual glitch when this happens but the results work. All existing blue print will have only one dot when updating, but the timmer has actually updated.
Version history:

• Version 0.2: Factorio .13+, Rebalance of levels
• Version 0.1: Initial Release

This seems like a useful mod. I'm surprised no one's done it yet. I can't think of a situation where you'd need a blueprint to stick around weeks and weeks, but 10 minutes to a couple hours, sure. Great work on adding research to it too, I'll be sure to check this mod out more when I get the chance.

I would like to offer a suggestion on balance. I think that it would be much better if the blueprint upgrades would be as follows;
Lv1: Default (10 minutes?)
Lv2: 2x (20 minutes?)
Lv3: 3x (60 minutes?)
Lv4: 4x (4 hours?)
Lv5: 6x (24 hours?)
With this, you get a full 24 hours at level 5, which is "eternal enough" and gives a better feeling of balance. With your current, I see no reason of going beyond level 3. This gives us the want to hit level 5. And you can always add 5 new levels after.
Lv6: 2x (2 days?)
Lv7: 2x (4 days?)
Lv8: 2x (8 days?)
Lv9: 2x (16 days?)
Lv10: 2x (32 days?)
You can see that levels 6-10 have weak multipliers, while they should also cost a lot more each time and take more time to research to give you the maximum of 1 month 1 day of blueprint time. Which will basically be close to the same yours currently is.

I'd also suggest that your research costs scale with the same multiplier too.

Vas wrote:I would like to offer a suggestion on balance. I think that it would be much better if the blueprint upgrades would be as follows;
Lv1: Default (10 minutes?)
Lv2: 2x (20 minutes?)
Lv3: 3x (60 minutes?)
Lv4: 4x (4 hours?)
Lv5: 6x (24 hours?)
With this, you get a full 24 hours at level 5, which is "eternal enough" and gives a better feeling of balance. With your current, I see no reason of going beyond level 3. This gives us the want to hit level 5. And you can always add 5 new levels after.
Lv6: 2x (2 days?)
Lv7: 2x (4 days?)
Lv8: 2x (8 days?)
Lv9: 2x (16 days?)
Lv10: 2x (32 days?)
You can see that levels 6-10 have weak multipliers, while they should also cost a lot more each time and take more time to research to give you the maximum of 1 month 1 day of blueprint time. Which will basically be close to the same yours currently is.

I'd also suggest that your research costs scale with the same multiplier too.

Version 0.2 does mostly what you suggested:
Lv2: 2x (20 minutes)
Lv3: 3x (60 minutes)
Lv4: 6x (6 hours)
Lv5: 4x (24 hours)
Lv6: 2x (2 days)
Lv7: 1.5x (3 days)
Lv8: 2x (6 days)
Lv9: 1.5x (9 days)

As well, each level requires ~50% more resources+time than the last.

Finaly, I uploaded it to the mod portal: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/gmyx/EternalBlueprints.

If i remember right the blueprints are eternal in 0.13 vanilla.

steinio wrote:If i remember right the blueprints are eternal in 0.13 vanilla.

I don't know. I just restarted playing and updated my mod.

I did check the upload logs for 13.x and found nothing. But I could be wrong.

Ghosts created by player no longer expire and can be placed before researching any technologies.

From viewtopic.php?f=3&t=27101 - Changes.
Thought ghost == blueprint.

Greetings steinio

steinio wrote:

Ghosts created by player no longer expire and can be placed before researching any technologies.

From viewtopic.php?f=3&t=27101 - Changes.
Thought ghost == blueprint.

Greetings steinio

Dang. Ghost are the results of blueprints. That is what my mod modifies.

So you can be proud of getting your idea to vanilla

Level 10 is clearly a waste. 6 days to 24 hours is a bit small.