Non-alt-mode visual indicator of assembler product
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 6:27 pm
This is pretty simple conceptually: Right now, assemblers outside of alt-mode are black boxes. You have to observe the output stream in order to figure out what a given one is working on, which is a pain.
On the other hand, chemical plants currently show, via a window and their smoke colour, what kind of chemical product they're working on. I'd like to see something of that nature added to assemblers. A window showing an internal conveyor belt perhaps? So that even in normal mode, which is what new players see first anyway, there's a clear indicator of what's going on.
Furnaces would be nice too, but OTOH furnaces already have some neat visual features with the glows and have a much smaller range of outputs, so they're less important.
On the other hand, chemical plants currently show, via a window and their smoke colour, what kind of chemical product they're working on. I'd like to see something of that nature added to assemblers. A window showing an internal conveyor belt perhaps? So that even in normal mode, which is what new players see first anyway, there's a clear indicator of what's going on.
Furnaces would be nice too, but OTOH furnaces already have some neat visual features with the glows and have a much smaller range of outputs, so they're less important.