Agricultural Tower Grid

rocketworm · Post by **rocketworm** » Fri Nov 08, 2024 11:45 am

Hi,

cann you add a little quality of life feature? If i want to plant an agricultural tower i can see a grid. it would be a lot easy to place them next to each other, if i could also see the grid of the already placed towerd.

Thanks, Markus

AileTheAlien · Post by **AileTheAlien** » Fri Nov 08, 2024 5:11 pm

You mean, show how much ground the other towers already cover? I'd also like that!

Post by **Koub** » Fri Nov 08, 2024 6:53 pm

Kind of like the turret overlay when plonking turrets ?

AileTheAlien · Post by **AileTheAlien** » Fri Nov 08, 2024 7:15 pm

Koub wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2024 6:53 pm Kind of like the turret overlay when plonking turrets ?

Yeah, something like that would work. I think it shows on the map too, if you're zoomed out.

Necronium · Post by **Necronium** » Fri Nov 08, 2024 9:14 pm

Yeah thats good one.

micromario · Post by **micromario** » Fri Nov 08, 2024 10:00 pm

Good suggestion.

Stringweasel · Post by **Stringweasel** » Fri Nov 08, 2024 10:34 pm

Nypyren · Post by **Nypyren** » Sun Nov 10, 2024 7:36 am

Purrsistent · Post by **Purrsistent** » Wed Nov 20, 2024 7:17 pm

TL;DR

Let us see the range of other nearby agricultural towers, while holding an agricultural tower (or its ghost) in the cursor.

What?

Being able to see the range of other towers would be a good QOL feature, and feels like an oversight, as entities such as roboports and power poles do this already!

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Why?

This would be an excellent QOL feature and allow easier building, and keep in line with other entities that have a similar funtion.

Madman666 · Post by **Madman666** » Thu Nov 21, 2024 9:01 am

I would very much like to second this. If you ask me, every building that has some kind of effective range should clearly represent it even in ghost state for more precision while planning things out. Roboport ghosts have similar problem. Please, amazing guys at Wube, if you can - implement this

PureTilt · Post by **PureTilt** » Thu Nov 21, 2024 2:38 pm

agree placing towers kinda pain right now

Zaflis · Post by **Zaflis** » Thu Nov 21, 2024 10:50 pm

Agreed, when i was making treefarm i used some lamps in the copy/paste blueprint as area markers for workaround. It took some trial and error to get them to right spots.

mr_abomination · Post by **mr_abomination** » Fri Nov 22, 2024 3:56 pm

Brathahn · Post by **Brathahn** » Sat Nov 23, 2024 12:05 am

+1
also let us see the grid from the map/remote view

Cronie · Post by **Cronie** » Sat Dec 07, 2024 5:56 pm

TL;DR

On Gleba, Please make the highlighted fertile ground for agricultural towers visible when placing other towers

What?

When you pick up an agricultural tower and place it near another one, it is difficult to tell where neighboring towers are already harvesting. It would be nice if the other towers which have already been placed would "light up" their fields when you have an agricultural tower in your hand, similar to the way power poles and substations make their area of effect visible when you have them in hand.

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Why?

In addition to making intuitive sense, it would make it easier to place ag. towers in a more orderly manner. (p.s. I wouldn't mind if this happened for mining drills either)

Thanks guys and please keep up the good work!

Orum · Post by **Orum** » Sat Dec 07, 2024 10:56 pm

Definitely agree. I found this quite frustrating, especially since you need to pack them in tightly on small islands of eligible soil until you get overgrowth.

Hares · Post by **Hares** » Sat Dec 07, 2024 11:53 pm

Duplicate of:

120348: Agricultural Tower Grid
~~122298: [Space age] Show other agricultural tower ranges, while holding an agricultural tower.~~ Merged into here

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