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Not moddable, therefore moved to Ideas and Suggestions --daniel34

When you're placing a train stop or chests near an existing train stop, you get white boxes, which I'll refer to as ghosts. Currently, the game only gives you 5 wagon-lengths of them, one of which is marked with arrows to indicate an engine unit if you're placing a stop. I'd like a mod that increases that number, or makes it configurable.

Hopefully this isn't impossible. I didn't see any relevant mods on mods.factorio.com, and the forum search didn't seem to show me anything relevant for mods or mod requests. Maybe the ghosts have a proper name, which would give me better search results.

That's game gui stuff.
Only devs have access to that.

+1.
Placing signals for 5+ trains (LLCCCC..., LCCCC...L) is quite a headache without this.
I thought there are a config file parameters for that or mod which alters that, but seems there aren't any :( Or I just don't know, where to look for.

Can some nice mod move this to suggestions?

It would need to be a game option I guess and might have a performance cost if you want to see like 20 wagons.