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Production and consumption menu (P button) is not convenient. Unclear.
Resources are jumping back and forth.

There are more simple and intuitive option.



Resources are divided into tabs.

1.Primary resources.

Iron ore.
Copper ore.
Tree.
A rock.
Oil.
Gas.
And so on.

2. Simple items.

Gears.
Pipes.
Bricks.
Simple circuit.
And so on.

3.Complex objects.

Engines.
Conveyor.
Manipulators.
And so on.

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Location of resources must be static.

Even if the player is not producing a particular resource.
The player has to remember where a resource can be found, rather than look every time.
For example iron ore in the top of the list. Oil - at the bottom.

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3 columns with numbers.

Production in pieces.
Consumption in pieces.
The consumption percentage.

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And 4 LEDs (light bulbs).

Green - consumption of 0-80% of production.
Yellow - the consumption of 81-120% of production.
Red - the consumption of 121% and higher.
Grey. Resource is not produced and not consumed.

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This clearly.
It's intuitive.
It's simple.
It is beautiful.
The player immediately clear where he had problems. And how much to increase production.

PS
Sorry for my english. It is not my native language.

The problem with this suggestion is, that there are so many similar others. I would like to have them all.

I added it to viewtopic.php?f=80&t=19987 More Game Information (Statistics, Monitoring, Graphs)

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-133 (last paragraph)
there are improvements coming with next version, let's wait for them

I have seen such topics. But I did not see the option, it is more convenient, clearer and easier than this.

Bumping one of the many Production Stats thread to say something about it:

I've logged over 500 hours of game time without even knowing that it existed at all.

My suggestion is not modification of the stats screen, but to the normal GUI which has kept it a secret from me.

Sorry, but 500 hours in any game, without ever trying out the configuration is ...

ssilk wrote: Sorry, but 500 hours in any game, without ever trying out the configuration is ...

Sad part is I've been in there! Just buzzed through to find what I needed, didn't study it. :/