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Short description:
It would be cool to directly place ghosts for robots from the construction GUI

For example:
left mouse - hand build 1
right mouse - hand build 5
shift-left mouse - place ghost


Reason and long description:
With the instroduction of the personal Roboport my personal robots steal the items from my inventory
and I can't place ghosts anymore even though I have enough items in logistic system.
Thats why you can't ghost draw a 100 line belt when you only have 1 belt in inventory.
And you are not forced to keep every item in inventory just to order your lazy logistic droids to get working.

I know we have blueprints and soon blueprint book for that but I like ghosts

It's only a small addition to the controls but I think it will add alot of convenience to the automated building system and result in faster building, maybe this is already doably by modding ?

This has alrready been suggested in various forms.
Please do use the search function.

deepdriller wrote:This has alrready been suggested in various forms.
Please do use the search function.

You are right, sorry. I carry my thoughts over to the discussion here:
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... 6&start=30

Because as alot of people are annoyed by the fact that personal robots take the last item from inventory but my suggestion of the controll scheme is new (at least I found no one who mentioned it)

Am still new here in the forum and I thought I covered all the investigation, I even asked in gameplay help if I missed a feature of ghost placing

Is this what you're suggesting?
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =67&t=4603

Even though this is a repeated sugestion, I still agree with it. we should be able to select to place a ghost of an entity without having to carry that entity's item with you at all, much less have it in your hand.

bobingabout wrote:Even though this is a repeated sugestion, I still agree with it. we should be able to select to place a ghost of an entity without having to carry that entity's item with you at all, much less have it in your hand.

Thanks for agreeing and yes I think it is a quick win (easy to implement and big convenience)

Turtle wrote:Is this what you're suggesting?
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =67&t=4603

Correct I didn't find your suggestion before