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Steps to Reproduce

1. Have a space platform with enabled requests via groups, named or anonymous
2. Copy space platform hub
3. Paste space platform hub onto itself

• Nothing changes

• All active requests group become disabled, regardless of being named or anonymous
• Undoing does not revert that change

Rseding91 wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 8:52 pm What's the desired outcome with pasting an entity onto itself? Theoretically - do nothing? "it already has the exact settings of the source entity"?

Hares wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 8:47 pm How I discovered this issue -- I copied space platform hub into a blueprint, copied it into a string, and duplicated interrupts via terrible Python code, then pasted updated blueprint on top of that platform.

def update_schedule(bp: Blueprint) -> Blueprint:
    assert len(bp['entities']) == 1, "Expected to contain exactly one entity being space platform hub"
    hub = bp['entities'][0]
    assert hub['name'] == 'space-platform-hub', "Expected to receive a space platform hub."
    assert len(bp['schedules']) == 1, "Expected to contain exactly one schedule being space platform hub's schedule"
    interrupts: List[InterruptRecord] = bp['schedules'][0]['schedule']['interrupts']
    # Path('blueprints/data/schedule.json').write_text(json.dumps(interrupts, indent=4))
    
    base_planet = PLANETS[0]
    for route in ROUTES:
        base_route_file = Path('blueprints/data/src/schedule-interrupts') / f'{route}-{_as_id(base_planet)}.json'
        base_route: InterruptRecord = json.loads(base_route_file.read_bytes())
        for planet in PLANETS:
            target_route = replace_planet_in_record(base_route, from_planet=base_planet, to_planet=planet)
            for item in interrupts:
                if (item['name'] == target_route['name']):
                    print(f"Route '{item['name']}' already exists, skipping.")
                    break
            else:
                print(f"Adding Route '{target_route['name']}'...")
                interrupts.append(target_route)
    
    return bp

What's the desired outcome with pasting an entity onto itself? Theoretically - do nothing? "it already has the exact settings of the source entity"?

Rseding91 wrote: Wed Apr 30, 2025 2:38 pm It was done this way on purpose so when copying settings the platform doesn't immediately start requesting items from the planet and or start flying away to some other location. The player has to make a conscious choice to enable what sections they want enabled and then set the platform in motion.

That doesn't change much except I looked at the wrong logic (copy-paste onto itself already does nothing). Building a blueprint over top of an entity will always do the paste logic because the two are never the same entity - one is in a blueprint - and one is in the world - even if the blueprint originated from the world entity.

With that in mind: looking at the code - it was specifically programmed to function exactly as it is now. Pasting settings onto a space platform hub always leaves it paused with all sections disabled - regardless of the source entity.

It was done this way on purpose so when copying settings the platform doesn't immediately start requesting items from the planet and or start flying away to some other location. The player has to make a conscious choice to enable what sections they want enabled and then set the platform in motion.