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When using the mouse to control the numerical slider, the intervals are usually fine. It goes by ones, 1-2-3-4-5-6... up to 9, then in tens, then in hundreds, then in thousands.

Usually those are fine. It's just that I'd very much like to see two additional interval "stops" added, which is 150 and especially 1500. Often I want to quickly request more than 1000 of some item, but in a situation where 2000 is far too much, both in terms of putting overmuch strain on the Logi Bots (often they have better things to do) and in terms of my inventory not having space for so many stacks, many more than I need.

I think that the 900-1000-1500-2000 1.5k interval is the more critical of the two, but it would be nice to also get a 90-100-150-200 150 interval, as many items still have a stack size of 150 so that it's slightly annoying to not be able to quickly ask for exactly 3 stacks.

Original:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000

Peter34:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 150, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000

But we can do even better by removing the small intervals too:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80, 100, 120, 150, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 600, 800, 1000

I think you should have the small numbers between 1-10, then some values like 15, 20, 25. Then full stack sizes between 1-6 (so 1 stack, 2 stacks, 3 stacks, etc), and then everything above that is hundreds.

If there is any overlap between those values choose the one that gives finer precision.

There are already discussions about this.

And a wiki-article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferred_number


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I think there was a suggestion (related to the circuit network) to display the five most recently used values in addition to the slider. I did a quick search but couldn't find it. If I remember correctly Siggboy likes to use 4294967296 (or was it 2147483648?) Each player is going to have their own "favorite" numbers that they use frequently.

4294967296 or 2147483648 or whatever big numbers is in my eyes a bug.

But that brings me to another suggestion I also didn't found: Someone wanted to add a "meta-circuit-network" per logistic network, where you could set numbers and change them, whenever needed.
Someone would find, that such a meta-network is the equivalent to variables in programs.

ssilk wrote:4294967296 or 2147483648 or whatever big numbers is in my eyes a bug.

Not a bug, just some fancy combinator magics the average player doesn't understand/need, these numbers are 2^32 and 2^31.
Although displaying the last 5 values might lead to an issue in that case as the GUI won't be set up to show numbers with 5 or more digits, or it could abbreviate them as 2.1G or such.

The intervals that DaveMcW mentioned seem a very good idea to me. They contain all needed stack sizes and their multiples and most of their fractions with reasonable spaces inbetween.

My point is that different people have different favorite numbers. I don't think it makes sense to have one-size-fits-all. It would be better if the game remembered the five most recent, or if there was some way to choose your favorites.