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When building distributed factory or just playing multiplayer, production/consumption stats are frequently becoming next to useless, because its a total of everything.

It would be nice to have stat sheets and books, which works just like blueprints - you can select buildings, name sheet/book and when you activate it, instead of ghost building you'll get stats window for buildings in that sheet/book.

Even for single player: for example i prefer to have separate red chips factory to feed blue chips factory and for everything else. Right now i just stand and watch for bottlenecks, but with sheets i can just check graphs. And its even harder to tune when you use trains to haul wares.

That would increase the amount of data that had to be tracked/stored by *insane* amounts. A previous 5 MB save would probably end up being 15 MB... plus it would run slower.

Just not worth it at all.

The "right way" to do this is described in viewtopic.php?f=80&t=19987 More Game Information (Statistics, Monitoring, Graphs)
where I also added it.