Upgrade planer's setting to change via a global "meniu"

[Green Cat]

This is a new feature idea.

As i have tons of blueprints for trains and so on and on. One of the most annoying things (when starting new game and such) is that each time i need to individually upgrade the blueprints, one by one, sometimes the belts, othertimes the inserters, assemble, so on.

The ideea is simple on paper: a meniu that, if we open (and this new feature is ON/enabeled in game settings, i would say inteferance) here we can chose what level to use. And now that i thing about it, could this also not be used for quality rank?

Anyways, back to the ideea. So, if this settings is off, it's current game. If this is on, it will force overwrite every last unit. So let's say i have a blueprint with yellow and blue inserters (stack and long are not affected unless a mod adds more varieties), and in the settings i put for all to be bulk (green inserter). Well, if i use the blueprint now, 1st of all, the blueprint itself is NOT converted. This is to ensure all the blueprints remain usable in any new game, as well as ration, or whatever, set up (aka it does not modify the blueprints, that's the key point).

Insted, this new feature does something else: after you have PLACED the blueprints (aka ghosts are created), then it checks all the enteties (sorry, no clue what they are called) and if anything does NOT match the setting, it will make a up/down grade so it match what we have in the settings.

If you want a more easy to understand exemple

let's say you placed a blueprint on the map. And then you have a upgrade planer that has everything set to change all the inserters to fast inserter. Regadless if the inserters are normal (yellow) or bulk inserter, once you drag over the upgrade planer, all inserter will change to fast (blue) inserter.

So again, the ideea is simple on paper, you place ghost and automatically up/downgrades all enteties IF you added a certain type, rank, and/or quality in the new meniu. However, you don't need to change any of your blueprints, you don't need to create or use any upgrade planer (where you need to do one by one all of them).

So this is a QoL that sure, it save a few seconds...except on the long run it saves how many hours? Plus it makes thing more efortless, stress free, and we can focuse more on our factory.

[CyberCider]

There’s already a way to solve your problem: Put your blueprints in a book, create a copy of that book, then apply your upgrade planner to that book.