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I've just started getting into more involved circuit tech and one thing that I kept experiencing was that I'd try to implement an idea I had only to be unsure what existing options I have to actually implement it. Like with train stations, for instance. They have quite a few default signals they use for things like station priority and limits. It would be nice if we could open the factoriopedia, click on a signal, and see if it has any default uses already. It would definitely be helpful as someone who's still learning what actually exists to be used with circuits.

Interesting, I personally would just delete all the default signals and require people manually set them.
In fact some of them are unset by default already.

For me it's mostly about knowing what exists in the game. You can't use the train station variables for example until you know they exist. Which means learning more about circuits effectively requires you to stumble into this stuff or hope to find it after googling. Having a factoriopedia entry for all the possible signal uses shows what you can do. Whether you set it manually to something else afterwards is up to the the player ultimately.

You just click the entity and press the circuit network button in the top right and ir shows you all the circuit network settings.

I guess it might be nice to include this information in Factoriopedia, but that probably won't be easy as the GUIs are quite different.

Right, what im saying is that I don't know *which* entities have dedicated circuit settings so it'd be a game of hunting them down then forgetting then finding them again while I'm learning. Instead of getting to them through the item having it all collated would be extremely useful for learning. If it's not too hard to add to the gui it would be a huge help for referring to when i'm learning.