Have 'fast interaction' mechanic lock direction per click
Posted: Mon May 01, 2017 4:06 pm
This was submitted as a bug report and deemed not a bug, so I'm starting a thread here for it to be an improvement suggestion:
Accidentally grabbing completed items from factories when the intention was to feed them is annoying. I used to be able to get around it by dragging over with the right mouse button (half stack), but since that has been fixed to now drop the last single item in hand, it then instantly starts grabbing half-stacks of completed items (or fuel) from the item, so if you drag over a circle of furnaces with the right button, it will appear that you are dropping items constantly when you have actually flipped over to *withdrawing* fuel for a bunch of iterations.malventano wrote:Problem: While running past a bunch of boilers while using the nifty new 'fast' interaction, once you've run out of coal or ore to insert, the continued mouse button press instantly changes to fast remove and instead strips items from the units. This is problematic when manually feeding items like burner mining drills or boilers with fuel, since you potentially end up unknowingly strip some of the units of fuel. I can think of no scenario where this would be the desired result.
Recommended remedy: fast interaction 'direction' should remain static for a given mouse press duration. The transition from fast insert to fast remove should only be possible if the button is lifted and re-pressed.