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I noticed this when setting parameter placeholder for later unlocked recipes in the mall.
It´s the same for refinieries and chemical plants, didn´t test Space Age buildings

First i thought it would only be a minor issue, because my personal usecase is kinda small and who let parameters in when placing blueprints?
But you can absolutely do that, parameterize a reciepe in a BP and select a parameter again when placing that BP.
When you´r away you might not connect a whole factory to power and not notice for some time. Kinda smearing another set reciepe BP over a prebuild factory and look away before you notice it blinking.

I think this is the same behavior behind disabled machines not showing no power icons. It's probably optimizations to make sure machines that can't operate due to logic don't even bother checking for power.

Thanks for the report. This is working as computeraddict mentioned: when a machine has a parameter set, it's disabled, and disabled machines don't draw the no-power icon. This is a combination of features all working correctly on their own but together produce what might be slightly undesired behavior. I don't believe it's worth increasing the complexity to account for this combination given machines with parameters are useless until parameterized - at which point you will see it's not powered.

Rseding91 wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 4:25 pm I don't believe it's worth increasing the complexity to account for this combination given machines with parameters are useless until parameterized - at which point you will see it's not powered.

I described such a case, but as you said it´s not worth it.
Quite interesting new things to think about, since disabling machines is a new thing, not only parameters