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Posted: **Wed Nov 27, 2024 3:48 pm**

TL;DR

The game should allow parameterizing request multipliers in requester-like chests & constant combinators.

What?

Currently, we cannot do that. When I blueprint this setup:

: (multiplier = 3); multiplier-parameterization-settings.png (60.15 KiB) Viewed 422 times

... and try to parameterize it, I cannot edit the number "3" from the above.

: (No parameter == 3); multiplier-parameterization-parameters.png (239.67 KiB) Viewed 422 times

Even if the multiplier & another parameter have the same default value, they are not collapsed, and the multiplier is always the same, regardless of deployed parameter values.

Why?

Related suggestion: Use logistic group multiplier when auto-configuring a requester chest.
This will make blueprint parameterization more simple & more elegant. This will also make final numbers look much more understandable -- i.e., it's not 500 iron plates, it's 10 iron plates needed for recipe, multiplied by 50.

Why not?

I can see constrains to this feature from "instant".
Without any ability to separate merged values (proposed partially in Please add a button to add a new blueprint parameter variable), the confusion between logical 1, (i.e., == 1), item count 1, and default group multiplier 1 will be bigger than before, and will not be fixed easily by using 10s or 100s.

Possible solutions to the mentioned problem:

Never merge requester groups parameters
Only allow parameterizing groups with multiple != 0, != 1