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TL;DR

Add a tri-state switch (or buttons) to disable/enable manual crafting for whole faction/only others in the faction. Mainly for "Lazy Bastard" achievement, but could also be used as a challenge.

Why?

Theoretically you can edit permissions to toggle manual crafting, but this doesn't seems like polished way to do this, especially that you can mess up things by accident.

What?

A better way would be adding a tri-state switch (or buttons) with the following:

• default to have manual crafting enabled,
• upon first click lock manual crafting for the player's faction, but not for the invoker,
• after second click lock manual crafting for the entire faction,
• next click unlock again with a warning dialog.

The tri-state switch (or buttons) should be visible in the Achievements' list AND in the pinned achievement on the side of the screen. Possibly there should be pop-up dialog once you pin Lazy Bastard achievement, asking if you want auto-lock manual crafting and where to toggle it later on.