View Time Left on Crafting Queue

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MalContentFL
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View Time Left on Crafting Queue

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Above the crafting queue it should have a countdown of the time for the queued items.

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Re: View Time Left on Crafting Queue

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MalContentFL wrote:Above the crafting queue it should have a countdown of the time for the queued items.
Yes, that would be nice. It doesn't even have to be super precise (although I can't immediately figure out why it'd be easier to code a less-than-ultra-precise feature than one that is), just give a rough indicator in minutes and seconds, or even minutes and fractions-of-minutes. Becaues I still, after lots of playing, often find myself building a long-ass crafting queue that takes forever and forever to finish, but without me havnig an intuitive clue as to how long that forever actually is.

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Re: View Time Left on Crafting Queue

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We had this subject many times now. I currently think the current view is ok, but we should be able to switch to a second view, which shows a timeline in logarithmic scale:

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NOW ----------- 1 sec -------- 10 secs ----- 1 min ---- 2 min ----- 5 mins ----- endless
                     ^     ^   ^                                  ^      
                        inserters                          20 refineries
 
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