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TL;DR

Add "personal_construction_radius_visualization" to Prototype/UtilitySprites and add the graphic "__core__/graphics/visualization-personal-construction-radius.png"

What ?

I suggest that the sprite used for personal robotics equipment zones be separate from the one used for Roboport Construction zones.

Currently when using a personal roboport inside of a larger construction zone it is visually unclear where your own personal construction zone is.
This is shown below with a personal zone (not to scale) and a roboport zone shown: Optimally something similar to the below would be possible: The way the current roboport construction zone and personal roboport construction zone sprite is defined is through Prototype/UtilitySprites/construction_radius_visualization and "__core__/graphics/visualization-construction-radius.png". My proposal is to have added a field called "personal_construction_radius_visualization" to Prototype/UtilitySprites and add the graphic "__core__/graphics/visualization-personal-construction-radius.png"

Why ?

This will hopefully add visual clarity to personal construction zones. And may even be fun (This is where I would show an image of Rick Astley as a personal roboport construction zone but the image of Rick I tried to used was larger that 11x11 pixels )
Realistically this is a very niche thing that shouldn't add too much complexity to the game while adding a small amount of visual clarity and potentially a little fun.

+1.

I like the idea of being able to tell where my personal roboport construction zone is when I'm inside a larger network.

in addition; I'd like to see a way to limit construction/destruction requests to the personal zone only not the other zone. I always get annoyed when I'm constructing/destructing something and parts of it are assigned to the non-personal zone construction bots.

netmand wrote: ↑Fri Mar 25, 2022 3:38 pm in addition; I'd like to see a way to limit construction/destruction requests to the personal zone only not the other zone. I always get annoyed when I'm constructing/destructing something and parts of it are assigned to the non-personal zone construction bots.

This is completely unrelated to the graphical sprite question and should be its own suggestion post!

i have been looking for a mod to do this but was finally informed that the personal and non-personal roboport fields use the same sprite. but i agree make the personal zones a pair of different colors. this will also help those with color deficiencies be able to play better