Equalize Axes of Production/Consumption Graph

Stillkill · Post by **Stillkill** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 11:45 pm

I'm not sure if this is already the case, but Why not have the continuous line graphs on the production statistics screen share the same Y- Axis values.

For instance, If I select Copper plates on both consumption and production, The graph Y-Axis will be 10k (or some other number relative to which ever chart has the highest value) for both graphs. This way, we can have an easier time Comparing the graphs and the stats they contain.

Optera · Post by **Optera** » Fri Sep 01, 2017 5:42 am

+1
That minor tweak would make finding production bottlenecks a lot easier.

Post by **Koub** » Fri Sep 01, 2017 5:46 am

I agree, it has always bothered me when "production" and "consumption" graphes don't share their Y axis scale.

FunMaker · Post by **FunMaker** » Mon Apr 29, 2019 7:32 pm

It would be nice if it would be possible to link the scaling of the production&consumption graphs to the same scale. Currently is is tedious to compare them.

GotLag · Post by **GotLag** » Sat Oct 26, 2019 9:35 am

As per the thread title, it would be nice to have an interface setting or UI button to have power and item production and consumption graphs display on the same Y scale.

Particularly for items, this would make it easier to see at a glance how production and consumption for a particular item compare.

Amarula · Post by **Amarula** » Sat Oct 26, 2019 2:02 pm

This would be nice; as previously suggested viewtopic.php?f=6&t=58578 the entire production GUI deserves some love!

Post by **Koub** » Sun Oct 27, 2019 9:52 am

[Koub] Merged into older topic with same suggestion.

GotLag · Post by **GotLag** » Fri Mar 06, 2020 11:49 pm

I don't know about anyone else but I'l find it much more intuitive on item production/consumption graphs if both sides had the same vertical scale, so I could more easily visually compare the two.

Some kind of button between the graph panes to toggle displaying both of them at the same scale would be helpful.

Post by **ssilk** » Sat Mar 07, 2020 9:57 am

Yeah, sounds simple.

Footbal · Post by **Footbal** » Fri Jun 14, 2024 4:58 am

TL;DR

Making the axes of the production and consumption graphs the same would make reasoning about your factory's output much easier.

What ?

When I'm setting up blue science, for example, and I finally turn all the machines on and provide them with their required materials, I like to take a look at the production/consumption graphs for the first few minutes to see if I got all my ratios correct. It's helpful to look at the production and consumption of each intermediate product to see if there are times where consumption is more than production or vice versa. But the axes of the two graphs are at two different scales, as shown in the below screenshot. It would be much easier to tell how the production related to the consumption if the axes were the same. This could be toggleable, but I think it would actually be reasonable to display the axes as the same all the time, since the entire point of the production/consumption graphs seems to be to compare production and consumption

This idea gets at a similar desire to a couple of other suggestions that have been made. I believe this particular suggestion would be a much smaller change for a decently large benefit.
Similar suggestions:
Add new graph for production minus consumption: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=50655
Add demand statistics: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=111774

I am also very interested in these other suggestions to see where they lead

Why ?

Equalizing the axes of the production/consumption statistics would help immediately visually identify any problems in production and make monitoring factories much easier.

mmmPI · Post by **mmmPI** » Fri Jun 14, 2024 10:32 am

If one of the graph has a big spike, the other one will be needlessly compressed and couldn't be read anymore no ?

waitofaiorur · Post by **waitofaiorur** » Fri Jun 14, 2024 10:59 am

mmmPI wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 14, 2024 10:32 am
If one of the graph has a big spike, the other one will be needlessly compressed and couldn't be read anymore no ?

Perhaps it could be a toggle? It's pretty common thing to do with graphs. For a 1min-interval, a spike probably wouldn't be relevant and could be allowed to exceed the boundaries.

mmmPI · Post by **mmmPI** » Fri Jun 14, 2024 11:19 am

Problem i see with spikes is that they can be caused by trains having periodic behavior so may be relevant / caused the graph to be compressed. ( if you have only 1 train bringing stuff per 1 minute, they may be a single spike of prod and its height is what would matters ).

A toggle make sense for showing stats though.

Post by **Koub** » Fri Jun 14, 2024 5:49 pm

[Koub] Merged into an older thread with a suggestion to address the same issue.

Footbal · Post by **Footbal** » Fri Jun 14, 2024 10:20 pm

A toggle might be pretty helpful, then. That would ensure that if you filtered just the production graph, for example, to include only one product, then that graph's axes would still be reasonable by default (rather than sharing a y-axis with your consumption graph that isn't being filtered).

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