Factorio Forums

TL;DR

Leave quality selection always visible in inventory instead of only in map view

What?

When space age was being discussed on FF, one of the items was "Be able to build anything from the map view", which wasn't support in Factorio 1.1.
Then it got release and allow one to build everything from the map view, which is great. But now one can do more in the map view then on the actual character.

A very minor and simple task that became really annoying really fast is building with quality ghosts when you are at the location.
Because you cannot select the quality level of the building from the normal inventory windows, you have to go to the map view, to look at the same location you already at, just so you can have access to the same inventory window, but with the quality selection available.
Same happens when you want to call bots to place a quality module, you can't do that if you are right next to the machine, you have to open the map view and zoon on the exact same spot....
It is already there, it is already possible, why make difficulty to access it?

Why?

It would just improve game quality of life...