View Zoom Research

[Radioactive Pretzels]

In late game, often you're dealing with HUGE blueprints which are often larger than the screen. Awesome Factorio has no problem with this.
But because they're so large, often the edges are offscreen even at maximum zoom out, and you don't even know where you're placing it anymore, especially if rails or belts need to match up with existing structures. I'd like to be able to zoom the player view out more.

Yes, you can do this now as a console command, but why not make it a tiny bit of the game?

Maybe make the maximum zoom-out change by a tech research. Or maybe after you launch your first satellite, that 'eye in the sky' allows you to zoom out more.

Zooming too far out is a performance problem (SO many tiles) and it's hard to use, but for those large blueprints it's really handy.

[ssilk]

In my eyes for handling around with blueprints, we need some kind of new tactical view. A bit like the alt-mode but everything is replaced with some kind of icon.