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Summary

When pasting settings to a requester chest, the game should use the new logistic request multiplier feature instead of putting a “hardcoded” multiplier on all the ingredients individually, so the player can easily adjust the multiplier down or up.

What?

Currently, when you copy settings from an assembler to a requester chest (shift-right/shift-left click by default), the game automatically multiplies the recipe ingredients by a factor which I understand is dependent on the recipe’s time taken. For example, if I make an Assembling machine 3 of medium electric poles, then copy from it to a requester chest, I get:
I propose that instead, the game should use the multiplier feature that came with logistic groups, producing this:
These result in the same final logistic requests, so the chest will receive the same items.

Why?

The automatic per-item multiplier is often way too high (for low-demand but quickly-made “mall” items), and sometimes too low (when items have to be transported a long distance). Using the group multiplier feature would let the player easily edit the multiplier. Right now, you can of course change the multiplier from 1 to a higher number, but there’s no way to say “divide these requests by 10” to scale down.

It would also make the numbers less mysterious — the recipe ingredient quantities appear directly in the item request list, and the multiplier is explicitly a multiplier.

+1, yes. This would make adjusting the values so much easier and also much easier to see how much it is ordering.

Agreed, sounds like a great use for the new feature! That would definitely make things much more convenient.

Awesome suggestion, would love to see this implemented.

LCStark wrote: Tue Nov 19, 2024 8:49 pm Agreed, sounds like a great use for the new feature! That would definitely make things much more convenient. Though it has one small issue that would have to be changed alongside it.

Don't keep us in suspense! What is the small issue?

Tinyboss wrote: Tue Nov 19, 2024 9:28 pm Don't keep us in suspense! What is the small issue?

Whoops, sorry! The issue was that it was limited to 0-100, but I didn't notice that it was changed in 2.0.18. It should be fine now. I just didn't edit it all out of my post.

+1 on that!

I would love to see this implemented as well.

Great minds think alike.... I would love this.