Agriculture tower could use more detailed per-cell information

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Agriculture tower could use more detailed per-cell information

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When placing an agriculture tower, each cell could display more information, like "natural soil" "cannot plant over rock" or "need artificial*1 + overgrowth*4". The words could be replaced with icons.

The current red-yellow-green highlight is uninformative and can be confusing to new players since it's very frequently all-yellow or all-red, and yellow tiles needing overgrowth are effectively red when just starting. On top of it, when placing a tower, both power and roboport coverage are also highlighted, the roboport one uses a confusingly similar color theme to the soil type colors.
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Re: Agriculture tower could use more detailed per-cell information

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Agreed it is really hard to understand the placement of the towers. At the least, make the colors much more distinct, and include the description of the colors in the factoriopedia for the tower
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