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Add the "out of network" warning triangle for any entity where a logistics connection has been configured
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:12 pm
by joeykins
TL;DR
Add the "out of network" warning triangle for any entity where a logistics connection has been configured (or, alternatively, when configuring logistics connections for entities that are out of network, make this obvious inside the logistics connection configuration panel)
What ?
Logistics Chests that are not in the logistics network get a flashing warning triangle to show you that they're not going to function. This is great.
I was just digging out my first game where my roboport coverage was a bit more al dente, and spent ages trying to work out why I wasn't manufacturing underground belts in my hub, and eventually realised that the output inserter was just outside of logistics network coverage. There is currently no indication that you've messed up here either via the flashing "no connection" warning on the logistics-connection-enabled entity, or within the configuration panel for the logistics connection.
Why ?
It's one of those small QOL improvements where right now, especially if you're a new player, there's no actual explanation for why something you've set up isn't working. Differentiating between "disabled because of the logistics condition" and "disabled because a logistics connection has been configured but there is no network coverage" would be a good enhancement for ID'ing/troubleshooting weird production problems.
Re: Add the "out of network" warning triangle for any entity where a logistics connection has been configured
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 5:40 pm
by Murklak
I'm trying to understand what you did that wasn't working. Did you put down an inserter ghost and the robots didn't place the inserter?
Re: Add the "out of network" warning triangle for any entity where a logistics connection has been configured
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:32 pm
by Illiander42
Inserter set to activate based on logistics network instead of circuit network, but because it wasn't in a logistics network it was always off.
They then spent a long, long time troubleshooting it without realising that it wasn't in a logistics network. So they want some form of indicator that an entity being controlled by the logistics network isn't in a logistics network.
+1, btw.
Re: Add the "out of network" warning triangle for any entity where a logistics connection has been configured
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:13 pm
by Murklak
I didn't even realize that was an option.
+1 because that's how that should work.
Re: Add the "out of network" warning triangle for any entity where a logistics connection has been configured
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:04 pm
by joeykins
Illiander42's summary is absolutely correct.
Re: Add the "out of network" warning triangle for any entity where a logistics connection has been configured
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:43 pm
by PennyJim
+1 didn't even realize that's not the case currently