Allow un-built roboports to show ghost connections when placing a ghost roboport nearby

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Allow un-built roboports to show ghost connections when placing a ghost roboport nearby

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Allow un-built roboports to show ghost connections when placing a ghost roboport nearby
What?
Currently, roboports that are unbuilt will not show links to built/active roboports, or show links to a ghost roboport being placed. This requires either waiting on each roboport to be placed (can take a long time depends on distance/bot speed), or using a tileable blueprint (which is awkward when you need to work around cliffs/impediments as you may need to attempt to place blueprint, have it fail, nudge roboport position, them grab blueprint and resume tiling).
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Why?
  • Allows user to easily expand roboport network from remote view without needing configured blueprints or waiting on current roboport ghosts to be placed to see connectivity range.
  • Blueprints with linked roboports also seem to semi-support this already. If you take a blueprint with two linked roboports and place it where one will connect to an active roboport, a connection is shown between the blueprint roboports as well. Moving this out of range of connecting to an active roboport then hides the blueprint preview connection.
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Re: Allow un-built roboports to show ghost connections when placing a ghost roboport nearby

Post by bzr »

Feels like this would be consistent with showing the "ghost connections" for underground belts and pipes.
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