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I have "Pick ghost item if no items are available" enabled. If I don't have an item in the inventory, when I select it from the toolbar, its ghost is permanently put in my hand. Even if logistic robots supply the items and I run out of them, the ghost still stays in my hand.

This is cannot be achieved when I have items in inventory. Even if I place the items using shift + LMB, when I run out of items, the hand is emptied.

This leads to situations like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNYF_V51h_g&t=10 (a video recorded specially for you ). Having a logistic network request for 100 belts and being within the logistic network, makes me unable to place the belt, as every 1-2 seconds (after logistic robots provide the belts and I run out of them again) the belt is removed from my hand.

The behaviour I would expect when "Pick ghost item if no items are available" is enabled, is that once I run out of items, the item held in the hand is replaced with its ghost, so I can continue placing the items that will be constructed by robots later.

Sounds similar to what was described here:
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=68557

Not sure how much I like this being "Not a Bug"

Especially annoying when doing things like placing concrete... seems to kind of defeat the purpose of enabling "Pick ghost item if no items are available" when you keep having to go back and forth, and in the end, makes having a blueprint sadly the more "user friendly" option.

Why was that moved to duplicates...? :/

Because you describe the same problem as the post linked by invisus. In fact, that is your own post, why did you repost your problem?

So are you saying that inability to put a ghost item in hand in certain situations is an intended behaviour?

I have a feeling that you didn't even read what I wrote - just had a quick scan through - neither saw the video that visualises the problem.

I have a really high opinion of you. You care about a lot of little details that most developers wouldn't even notice. But those little details that you miss - it's impossible to get to you about them. The fact that so often you simply don't listen makes me sad.

I'm not saying anything. Go to your first post and reply there instead of starting the discussion a second time. It is unlikely that any developer will read discussion in a post in the duplicates section.

Bilka wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2019 7:57 am I'm not saying anything.

This is exactly the problem I am talking about.

Bilka wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2019 7:57 am It is unlikely that any developer will read discussion in a post in the duplicates section.

No developer reads a discussion in a post in "Not a bug" section either.