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TL;DR

Add a new wildcard signal for interrupts - wildcard planet

What?

A new wildcard/parameter signal -- wildcard planet.
Can be selected for all of the following:

• Circuit condition
• Interrupt condition: Any planet import zero
• (to be added) Interrupt condition: On/Not on a planet orbit: 119897
• Interrupt destination

Something like this:

Why?

Will add ability to generalize similar interrupts, similar to automated trains.
Currently, I have several extremely identical interrupts which vary only by planet, and I assume I'm not the only person who made so.

Recently got to the point in my first playthrough where i was automating science shipments rather than manually triggering them and was quite surprised to find out that this wasnt a thing already. While i can see why they hadnt added it initially seeing as there are only 7 planets/locations, its addition would at a bare minimum streamline solutions. Hopefully Wube considers adding this in a future update