Ratio Indicators for Assemblers
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2019 2:44 pm
TL;DR
Show me how many items/belts an assembler can produce/fill per second so I can calculate things easier without tabbing out of the game and losing immersionWhat ?
A UI indicator in the assembler which shows me both, how long it will take the assembler to produce one item and how many assemblers I would need for one standard belt, all in relation to the placed assembler's properties.
Why ?
Well, I played Spreadsheets: Online (= EvE: Online) and I had a little giggle when I found out that spreadsheet-sized calculations regarding production ratios are obviously required to do here as well in order to make sure that I, for instance, don't produce too much ammunition.Yeah, yeah, I know, there's never such a thing as "too much ammo", but regardless of whether I play Deathworld or Warp or whatever, I still need to do these calculations every so often for my production lines. I need to tab out, open my calculator etc and with that I lose immersion by having to confess myself with something that is not Factorio.
Yes, I really don't like that.
But with the UI indicator, I can roughly estimate how much I need to build to fill one belt (from there on it's x2 for red and x3 for blue) and I can also roughly calculate how much I need for a set amount of items per second.
This will reduce the loss of immersion, if one wants to roughly estimate stuff and it should, in my opinion, be added to the base game for the aforementioned reasons.
Edit: I know that all I would need to achieve that would be the calculator mod
but this is about a much more crucial aspect: Automatization.