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TL;DR

Allow un-built roboports to show ghost connections when placing a ghost roboport nearby

What?

Currently, roboports that are unbuilt will not show links to built/active roboports, or show links to a ghost roboport being placed. This requires either waiting on each roboport to be placed (can take a long time depends on distance/bot speed), or using a tileable blueprint (which is awkward when you need to work around cliffs/impediments as you may need to attempt to place blueprint, have it fail, nudge roboport position, them grab blueprint and resume tiling).

Why?

• Allows user to easily expand roboport network from remote view without needing configured blueprints or waiting on current roboport ghosts to be placed to see connectivity range.

• Blueprints with linked roboports also seem to semi-support this already. If you take a blueprint with two linked roboports and place it where one will connect to an active roboport, a connection is shown between the blueprint roboports as well. Moving this out of range of connecting to an active roboport then hides the blueprint preview connection.

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Feels like this would be consistent with showing the "ghost connections" for underground belts and pipes.

+1 on this as a QoL enhancement. Ghost building power poles does similar already (you can see the ghost lines to know to properly space out the ghost power poles), so idea is to have similar feature to show the logistics connections for the ghost roboports too.

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And I would like an additional bounding box marker so it's easier to place roboports exactly on the edge of each other.
This mod is a pretty good step in the right direction: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GhostRobo ... mentHelper

+1 to this!

I love this a lot, even the colors.

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