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TL;DR

During miner placement, highlight resource tiles touched by the miner

What?

While hovering with a miner that you are about to place, its coverage area is already shown by the game... my suggestion is to also highlight any resource tiles within that coverage area.

Why?

With all the lovely new artwork on all the new planets, it can be hard at times to see where resource tiles are in a patch (eg if they blend into the landscape, are obfuscated by decoratives or are entirely obscured by trees). If miners highlighted covered resource tiles during placement, it would make it much easier to plan miner layout, to ensure no resource tiles get missed. Obviously this is more of an early game thing, before you get cliff explosives and when you want to make the most of your starter patches.

+1

That would be especially useful for those coal patches on Vulcanus.

iestynne wrote: Thu Apr 17, 2025 2:03 am With all the lovely new artwork on all the new planets, it can be hard at times to see where resource tiles are in a patch

Yeah...