Empty-inventory-slot reader

[Honktown]

I don't know if you mean that I didn't read instructions, or are you asking about the mod?

I can expect that players, that have downloaded your mod, haven't read any tutorial how to use this mod.

There's not much to it. There are two drop-downs, one has numbers, the other, options. I use the localised strings for the labels on the top boxes. I added a picture to the gallery, the third one. If people try to see why it's "not working" and click on a train stop or combinator, it will show up in the box. Once they have both clicking the check will work. I wouldn't call it obvious, but it's not a complicated mod. The only thing is CTRL-R brings up the interface. That's in the keyboard options, too, and is in the first line in my description.

[Pi-C]

I don't know if you mean that I didn't read instructions, or are you asking about the mod?

I can expect that players, that have downloaded your mod, haven't read any tutorial how to use this mod.

Train construction site has an interesting way to cope with this. It provides an item "Trainbuilder manual"; right-click it, and you will get the documentation:

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That's clearly not something I'd expect in an alpha version of the mod (downloaded, but didn't test it yet -- comments will follow), but might be a good idea for later versions, if using the mod shouldn't be intuitive.

[Honktown]

I don't know if you mean that I didn't read instructions, or are you asking about the mod?

I can expect that players, that have downloaded your mod, haven't read any tutorial how to use this mod.

Train construction site has an interesting way to cope with this. It provides an item "Trainbuilder manual"; right-click it, and you will get the documentation:
manual.png
That's clearly not something I'd expect in an alpha version of the mod (downloaded, but didn't test it yet -- comments will follow), but might be a good idea for later versions, if using the mod shouldn't be intuitive.

MAKE SURE YOU UPDATE. There's a log print every time a train enters a station in the XX.1 versions, which I took down.

Some "tutorial" thing would be a good idea. I'd probably do it dumbly: add a button with a question mark on it, which opens up a new frame with an image in it. There's only a few steps that can be explained in pictures.

If you have some way to test the performance, I'd like to hear about it. I tried to optimize it in various ways (including pestering not one, but at least two developers and a forum moderator in the process, lol). A baseline is on my computer, checking the inventory of a 65530 slot chest was ~130 milliseconds, and that was only iterating the inventory, doing nothing. There might be one or two ways I can speed it up, but yeah alpha mod and all that. I should probably add a one-time check so if a train is in the station, the combinator immediately starts outputting. There's a cute little message that prints, but a train has to enter a station before the combinator starts.

[steinio]

I don't know if you mean that I didn't read instructions, or are you asking about the mod?

I can expect that players, that have downloaded your mod, haven't read any tutorial how to use this mod.

There's not much to it. There are two drop-downs, one has numbers, the other, options. I use the localised strings for the labels on the top boxes. I added a picture to the gallery, the third one. If people try to see why it's "not working" and click on a train stop or combinator, it will show up in the box. Once they have both clicking the check will work. I wouldn't call it obvious, but it's not a complicated mod. The only thing is CTRL-R brings up the interface. That's in the keyboard options, too, and is in the first line in my description.

You need a dependency of this mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Ability_to_Read

[Honktown]

You need a dependency of this mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Ability_to_Read

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