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Some items such as Science Packs show the time required to manufacture the item itself (not the TOTAL time to make all the sub-components, but the time for the item itself), however, other items, such as inserters, do not show the manufacturing time. This item manufacturing time is VERY helpful when trying to plan out an efficient assembly line. Please add these times to other items where they are missing, if possible.

The time is not shown only when it is equal to 1, to reduce the bloat, do you think it should be there always?

kovarex wrote:The time is not shown only when it is equal to 1, to reduce the bloat, do you think it should be there always?

No, that's quite ok, it should be documented and a tutorial should say it.

I would go ahead and show it anyway, since it is likely going to be harder to find out that it is 1 if no time is listed, than just to show 1 in the tooltip.

Hm.
I thought it is obvious. I mean, you can see it, when it is running. "How long does it take? Looks about to one second. Maybe it is one? Then this is obviously the reason, why they don't print it..."

But I know users and I'm sure there will so many, which come and say "huuuuuu... I found a bug: for item x no time is shown!"

Maybe ... the whole information-display can change. The important informations as usual and a second box, with not so important stuff. The time can be shown in this case in this extra box, which is only shown, when hovering a little time.

???

PS: I lived in times, where writing informations on paper was a bit expensive. At that time it was good habit to remove those informations, which are obvious. I thought, because of this steam-punk setup, that it is a good habit here, too.

Things gonna change...