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That's a good idea! I second it.bobucles wrote:Blueprints exist because the player already went through all the sweat and tears of building a previous base. Ultimately, blueprints should be something that the player carries with them BETWEEN games. The function of a blueprint catalogue should be the ability to save/load/use blueprints from disk, allowing access to every blueprint the player ever saved.
It would also let players share their blueprints online.
Edit: Is there a way to force a blueprint if something is blocking it?
Not sure if this is what you mean, but you can shift-click and it will place all the buildings in the blueprint that are not blocked. It was added in patch 0.11 I think, that was declared stable a few months ago.bobucles wrote:Edit: Is there a way to force a blueprint if something is blocking it?
Editiable LUA-Scripts for example. Would be really nice to have that kind of control. APIs for the already "intelligent" parts and hopefully an intelligent long arm inserter.AssaultRaven wrote:I agree. I don't think it's unreasonable for the design tools available to the player character to be at least as sophisticated as those available to the player, which is to say, Factorio itself.sillyfly wrote:+1 .
I also wanted to suggest such a thing
One more functionality I think could be added into this "Blueprint catalog" is a "blueprint designer" - an option to open an existing or new blueprint to edit in a new ui, a bit like the map editor or sandbox mode, but with no terrain, and all (currently researched) items available.
This could help solve the "must have item to design blueprint" problem.
Once you get advanced electronics, I don't see why blueprints shouldn't be as easily edited, saved, and duplicated as any CAD or CMC file is in real life. I mean, I'm pretty sure that production engineer's don't order a new motherboard every time they think of a new way to arrange the floor robots, right? It's odd to be playing a game on a computer built possibly centuries before Factorio takes place, yet which is far more advanced than any of the games computers in that it has the Save As command.
Related idea: instead of having to build a computer out of smart inserters, there should just be some kind of Programmable Logic Controller that can be programmed to whatever level of complexity is desired without taking up more than 1 tile, if even that. Opening it should reveal an infinite grid for circuits, w/ a bottomless toolbox of logic gates and various types of registers (input, output, et cetera), so it's not like it would simplify the implementation of programmable logic, just make it way less... silly, by not forcing you to use massive fields of belts and inserters to do what should be doable with the circuit board inside every individual inserter, in order to implement basic logic.
I think you got it wrong. He suggests an ingame blueprint manager so the blueprints will not fly wildly in your inventory and take up space.ssilk wrote:Hm.
We can begin tomorrow to create a blueprint catalogue. We (the community) has everything to do this now: The blueprint-manager and the wiki (and making screenshoots of course).
Every type of blueprint has an own page, including the pics, the blueprint (as string, which can be copied into clipboard) and a longer description, alternative blueprints and much more.
A "book" that lets you store many blueprints is good.I think you got it wrong. He suggests an ingame blueprint manager so the blueprints will not fly wildly in your inventory and take up space.