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TL;DR:

Autorotate assembler when next to a suitable fluid input after chosing recipe

What?

I Would like this: Instead of this.

What would you want if there were two different fluids arriving at right angle, and your assembling machine was next to both pipes ?

He is suggesting auto-rotating after choosing a recipe, so if there are 2 different fluid, it should pick the correct fluid. (If there are 2 different sources of the correct fluid, then picking either would still be an improvement over no rotation, provided the player could manually rotate the assembler if they wanted to use the other source).

Koub wrote:What would you want if there were two different fluids arriving at right angle, and your assembling machine was next to both pipes ?

Check which fluid is correct for the selected recipe, and rotate accordingly. (Obviously this works only when pipes are not empty)

SuperSulc wrote:

Koub wrote:What would you want if there were two different fluids arriving at right angle, and your assembling machine was next to both pipes ?

Check which fluid is correct for the selected recipe, and rotate accordingly. (Obviously this works only when pipes are not empty)

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This mechanic is too opaque to the player in the first place, we're talking about rotating a machine while the player can't even see it because it's hidden behind the recipe selection screen. Let alone with automatic decision making to which of several pipes to connect.
And what if this automatic rotation would cause the fluid output to connect to an empty pipe? (chem plants are assemblers too)

So long as all the inputs/outputs of a recipe have to be the same maybe make it allow inputs/outputs to all sides, it doesn't trivialise the problem any further than it already is and it actually makes for some interesting edge cases where you don't want pipes that otherwise could just run past assemblers to connect to them *shrugs*