Remember the Electric Network Time Span

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Remember the Electric Network Time Span

Post by enthusiasticplayer »

TL;DR
Save the last setting the player used in the Electric Network Info screen (5sec,1min,10min etc.)

What ?
Make the game remember the last time span setting the player used in the Network Display at which the reopened screen will now default to.
When implemented the Network Display will always show the "last 10 minutes" time span when you left the Network Display previously at the 10 minute span until changed again manually.
Why ?
Making the game remember the time span, helps when you're actively changing up your power production.
Being able to repeatedly open up the Network Screen "on the fly" when improving your power production helps you quickly compare your information from before, without needing to change the time span from 5seconds to 1m/10m over and over again.
This would decrease the amount of clicking and improve the fluidity of the gameplay as the information would be instantly accessible (like reading from a spreadsheet and not searching through a menu)


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Re: Remember the Electric Network Time Span

Post by Zavian »

And do the same for the production statistics.

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Re: Remember the Electric Network Time Span

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Kill statistics as well, probably.
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Stateful production statistics

Post by ernopp »

Within one session, the time period and specific series I've selected should be remembered even after I close the production statistics. Right now I often make changes related to a specific series (i.e. one color science pack) and want to periodically check in on it to see how it's doing. It's a lot of work to search for the item in the list (or with search) every time, and then pick a longer time scale repeatedly.

I think it would be more natural to have this be a stateful value so you could open prod statistics, set up what you'd like to monitor, close it, make changes to the factory, then reopen it and immediately see the change.
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Re: Stateful production statistics

Post by Rseding91 »

Thanks for the report however that's not a bug. That's a suggestion.

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Re: Remember the Electric Network Time Span

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[Koub] ... and merging it with an older thread with similar suggestion
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Re: Remember the Electric Network Time Span

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I would add buttons: reset, preset 1, preset 2, preset 3

Pressing preset button long will store the current setting, reset works as now reopening.
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