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Splitting Robot Alert Icon and flashing icon

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I know this has already been discussed as I was the one who brought it up but no one seemed to reply when I came up with this (almost) solution

Basically what I did was Change the robot notification icon no-building-material-icon.png from the triangle image to a tiny square so there should be almost zero performance hit
could maybe even be considered an optimization since the file could be even smaller from ~800btyes to under 100bytes although a trivial one...

The only issue is that it also changes the alert in the corner.
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Splitting the two in would also mean changing the flash color would be simple as well as the size based on the map zoom level so it would be a form fitting block of sorts.
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Yup, that annoying excess of "no materials" when planning out large blueprints has bothered me for a while. A triangle placed on every belt, wall and tile gets laggy reeeal fast.

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TheKingOfFailure wrote:Yup, that annoying excess of "no materials" when planning out large blueprints has bothered me for a while. A triangle placed on every belt, wall and tile gets laggy reeeal fast.

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Well the game is limited to 600 active requests and it will cycle through them.
I think they could remove that so you could see ALL logistic requests but as a tiny square

OH and having a map option to toggle the flashing would be great too

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