Allow custom Upgrade Planners to generically upgrade Quality

[BlueTemplar]

First, see how you can select (non-any) quality without selecting any specific entity with a deconstruction planner :
(or an inserter filter)

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See the green checkbox ?

But if you try to do this for an upgrade planner, the checkbox stays greyed out :

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(not even with other quality levels than Any above)

But an Upgrade Planner ought to be even more powerful than this :
we should be able to even select Quality = Any, NOT pick any items, confirm the dialog, and get a custom upgrade planner that upgrades the quality of ANY entity !
Something looking like :

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with an icon like :

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P.S.: Not sure if this might also need some kind of opt-in «also upgrade tier» checkbox, for when you do want to upgrade both quality and tier across many entities with a single upgrade planner ?

[BlueTemplar]

See also the very related (but not as powerful) mod :
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/quality-upgrade-planner

[Wappinhat]

Issue: It's very time consuming creating an upgrade planner for every item when targeting qualities. For example a spaceship would require every thruster, solar panel, cargo hold etc created in an upgrade planner

Solution: Being able to shift+alt+scroll wheel to adjust item qualities on individual items in a blueprint and/or on all items under components on the left in a blueprint

Another idea is to be able to create an upgrade planner with only qualities and no items selected - this way someone can click and drag on each component they would like to upgrade

[Koub]

[Koub] Merged into an older thread with a suggestion trying to address the same issue

[MEOWMI]

I'm surprised this isn't in the game already. (I understand why but it would make so much sense.)

+1

[Romayne]

TL;DR

There should be an option to select and filter quality in the same way inserters can to upgrade all entities of a specific quality to some other quality.

What?

Have the quality selectors be able to be selected in the planners as options in and of themselves.

Why?

In a game with such QoL and ease of use, there is no reason I or anyone else should need to do this:


Instead, there should be options like this to save on time. Quality is often shifted around as surplus/deficits of a material in specific qualities requires deviations from preset/existing quality in a blueprint -- hand-placing it all sucks.

[Koub]

[Koub] Merged into an older thread with a similar suggestion.

[VarmintLP]

TL;DR

Down-/Upgrading the quality of items

What?

You know how it's annoying to always upgrade everything to a higher quality once it's available? Like your solar panel parks or battery parks. Well would be awefully nice to be able to shift + Alt + U or similar to get a blueprint to select multiple items in a larger area for upgrading or give the upgrade tool a second option with alt or ctrl to enable quality upgrades while holding the upgrade blueprint. Would be great to select a large amount of factorys and just replace them with a rare or legendary version, once it's in stock for the drones of course.

Why?

It would make it more convenient and faster to upgrade / downgrate a large factory area to a better quality rather than pressing Q on each item then E to change quality then hover over the item and placing it. Would be super useful for long time players.

Sorry if this was already posted here or implemented but I do think it would be cool to have.

[forums.mattias]

You can already make an upgrade blueprint for quality and bulk upgrade with it.

[SetazeR]

Counteroffer - allow crafting lower quality stuff with higher quality ingridients.

[Koub]

[Koub] Merged into an older thread with the same suggestion.