First, please see this reddit post for an example of the annoyances I'm talking about: https://old.reddit.com/r/factorio/comme ... ant_reach/
As discussed in Friday Facts 261, https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-261, under Interaction error messages header,
This would be fine if it was just for new players, but it still spams me with these error messages even though I have over 700 hours in this game. It would be fine if there was an option to disable them.. except there is no option to disable them.People sometimes struggled (in the beginning), to figure out why they can't interact with an object (open/mine/build, connect wires etc.) when it is too far away. We still keep the Beep Boop error sound and the different (yellowish) color, but we added a short flying text explaining the problem.
This seems to be a glaring oversight by the developers. I hope it was not an intentional one.
Posted in the suggestion forum, viewtopic.php?f=6&t=66670, as well, although I believe the lack of an option to disable this annoying 'feature' is a bug, aka an oversight by the developers.