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tk0421 wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:37 am

Does the Icons for Assembler-3 not bother anyone else?

5thHorseman wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2019 5:37 am

All this complaining about three gears and no one mentions the utter uselessness of a single gear all by itself.

Tricorius wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2019 6:16 am

5thHorseman wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2019 5:37 am

All this complaining about three gears and no one mentions the utter uselessness of a single gear all by itself.

I dunno...sometimes I just like to watch things spin.

Omnifarious wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:32 pm

The change to rails annoys me a LOT. I avoid destroying as much of the landscape as possible when building a factory. I love having a factory nestled in the trees. I purposely use the rail planner to plan twisty routes that avoid cliffs and trees. I assiduously avoid destroying cliffs unless I have no other real option.

When I can't avoid cliffs and trees and still have a route that isn't completely ridiculous (or have any route at all) I look around for a way to destroy as few things as possible, plan a bit of the route through there, and avoid obstacles for the entire rest of the route.

I've done surveys and watched YouTubers. Distressingly few use the rail planner much at all. And the reason isn't because they have to use shift to get obstacle destruction. The reason is that they want poles or signals placed, or multiple lines placed that are a certain distance from eachother, and things of that nature. So they instead used a fixed set of blueprint templates and stomp their way across the landscape with those, which I find to be kind of sad.

I will admit that the rail planner is a pain to use to plan sets of two (or more) parallel rails, and it would be nice if it were easier to use in that mode. And it certainly would be nice to periodically place signals or power poles along the rail path.

But the change you made is a huge step backwards. And while I think the 'literally unplayable' meme is pretty stupid, I will say that your change makes the rail planner completely useless to me. And since laboriously hand placing rail all across the landscape is also a huge pain, the removal of the feature creates a situation in which I have a choice between upgrading or using rails. Since rails are such an integral part of the game, I will simply not be upgrading.

I consider removal of this ability to be a misfeature, much like I would consider removal of 'item count' conditions at rail stops or taking way splitters. This was a terrible choice. And while I understand that the rail planner interface was complex, removal of this feature in order to simplify it wasn't the right way to go.

Additionally, this does not create parity with ghost buildings. With ghost buildings, you have to hold shift to get item destruction. Otherwise, it doesn't let you place the blueprint. That's not the same behavior as what you've done with the rail planner in which item destruction is the default behavior.

The rail planner confusion comes in with the distinction between ghost (aka rail planner) mode and item placement mode. Rails are the only thing that has a sort of 'ad-hoc' large scale 'blueprinting' ability. And so, in many ways, rail planning ghost mode is like, but also not like a blueprint placement. I don't think it's possible to make the features comparable because they are different in a couple of important ways.

MasterBuilder wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:42 pm

If the keybinding was changable; if ghost rail building could be done with Alt instead of Shift:
- You could still use Shift+R to counter-clockwise rotation.
- You could path around trees by not holding Shift.

The problem with having everything on Shift is it does too many mutually exclusive things, and thus features are lost. Add a second key to activate ghost rail planning solves the issue.

PS: I don't know if there's a keybinding setting for the ghost rail planning (Shift); I couldn't find one. But, you can change the rotation bindings to get counter-clockwise working again.
Doesn't help for making long paths around trees though.

Shogal wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 13, 2019 11:52 pm

dood wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 13, 2019 8:08 am

Wouldn't multiple versions of every icon be a huge load on vram?

No, in mipmap every downscaled texture is 4 times smaller than previous one on each step, so first is 1, 2nd is 1/4, 3rd is 1/16 etc. It's geometric progression, which sum tends to 4/3. So, storing multiple downscaled versions of each icon will just occupy roughly 33% memory of original icons, not even a half.
And i guess, icons take very small amount of ram, comparing to, for example, every frame of assembling machine animation.

In the case of an RGB image with three channels stored as separate planes, the total mipmap can be visualized as fitting neatly into a square area twice as large as the dimensions of the original image on each side. It also shows visually how using mipmaps requires 33% more memory.

Ormy wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 17, 2019 10:59 am

This. And the solution is so simple, have a toggle in the option menu between new behaviour and old behaviour, default is new behaviour, but those of us who want the old behaviour just change one toggle in options and we're happy.

One-way rotation

• I'm supposed to be able to hit R to rotate one way and Shift-R to rotate the other. But now, releasing Shift changes rail planner modes, so now I have to just Shift-R all the way around to avoid leaving rail-planning mode. What keeps happening is that I let up on Shift to rotate the way I want (which works everywhere else), and then I'm dumped out of rail planner mode. To add insult to injury, when I hit Shift to go back to rail planner mode, the rotation loses its state and goes back to any-direction state, and I have to start over.

Cliffs you can't knock down

• The rotation is a relatively minor, if constant, problem. The major problem with this change is that I can't route around trees, rocks, and especially cliffs anymore.
  
  For trees and rocks this isn't a huge problem because I can just chop/mine them. For cliffs this is a huge problem.
  
  Why? Because in every game, when I start building rails, I don't have oil. Without oil, I can't make explosives. Without explosives, I can't make cliff explosives. So the rail planner routes me through cliffs that I can't destroy.
  
  Without oil, I also don't have construction robots. So I can't have robots destroy the cliffs either.
  
  I'm left creating rails that route uselessly through cliffs, or painstakingly using manual rail placement until I finally get oil.