For this idea to work, a few steps must be taken:
1 - A better blueprint indication - a point and an arrow would suffice to indicate the starting point and direction of the blueprint.
2 - Unusual delimited area for red/blue blueprints - They can be defined by small pieces of wood/whatever that will delimit the drawing area of the future blueprint, once demarked and finished the drawing area with all objects, the blueprint will give me a square, a circle, a whatever shape I choose with whatever things inside.
Also, with the same "blue" area on a red blueprint, I would not need to destroy a big square area of florest just to build an unusual shaped factory.
3 - Activating robots/inserters/whatever - They can pick-up grenades and when upon a rock... BOOM... 8 of these and one less rock in my way...
Also, these "robots" will have to insertable on the blueprints, so that once they pickup a blueprint they can activate this blueprint in an x,y position with a defined direction.
4 - Materials inside boxes, inside the blueprints - This way i can insert 1 box with a blueprint to be used in the next stage of the installation, once the robot completed this next stage the box with the next blueprint will signal the next robot the next stage to be built, and so on, going indefinetely, until no more boxes with blueprints are found, ending the installation.
With these 4 above the idea of Multi-Stage Blueprints Installation can be made possible, but with these next three, they can be made easier/more insteresing.
5 - Mirror blueprint transformation - so that a blueprint can be re-used with a diferent but similar design, not just 90, 180, 270 rotations, but also mirrored.
6 - Copying blueprint factories - so that a blueprint can be distributed among several activating robots for a faster deployment, and for balancing/enjoyment reasons, once an activating robot uses a blueprint it can be destroyed.
7 - Rotate / Mirror Blueprints Factories - so that a blueprint can be rotated or mirrored in a Factorio style.
I Know this post probably broke a LOT of the "rules" for a good post, but, well, whatever... Plese, reply with your signature if you like it, Comments, improvements and ideas are also welcome.
Gustavo
