Make Deconstruction planner filter work on placed ghost entities.

alfa-cz · Post by **alfa-cz** » Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:33 pm

TL;DR

Make Deconstruction planner blacklist or whitelist filter work on placed ghost entities/tiles filtered in the planner settings form.

What ?

btw. this gui form really need some love, but let's not get sidetracked.

: filteredTileDeconstructionPlanner.png (22.43 KiB) Viewed 2436 times

In the following picture you can see my example. I am trying to deconstruct some clifs while my construction bots are placing refined concrete under it. But I only want it to delete the cliffs.
I have set refined concrete in blacklist as you can see in the picture above. The problem is that my deconstruction planner will delete all the ghost refined concrete tiles.

: filteredDeconstructionPlanner.png (3.21 MiB) Viewed 2436 times

I know this looks like border-line feature-creep

but it would be nice to have this QOL. feature
Easy win - would be if you could add cliffs to the trees/rocks filter checkbox, which only works for trees and rocks for now. However making it the only option could anger all players who like to use the cliffs for defense againts enemies

Why ?

I have noticed that Upgrade planner already does upgrade ghost entities. So why not add it to the Deconstruction planner

Post by **ssilk** » Fri Jan 10, 2020 5:55 am

[removed size tags, let everyone decide the font-size him/herself.]

MEOWMI · Post by **MEOWMI** » Fri Jan 10, 2020 8:44 am

I forget, are you capable of adding ghosts to the blacklist? I do remember the last tab in the decon planner has stuff like "item on ground" and "ghost".

Regarding the UI, it almost seems like the blacklist and whitelist should be separate tabs too, not a one-or-the-other toggle. For filter inserters it makes sense for performance and balance reasons, but blueprints/planners are supposed to be versatile and powerful.

alfa-cz · Post by **alfa-cz** » Fri Jan 10, 2020 5:02 pm

ssilk wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2020 5:55 am [removed size tags, let everyone decide the font-size him/herself.]

Ok thanks. I just felt that the image captions should not be bigger text than normal paragraph :/

Post by **Rseding91** » Sat Jan 11, 2020 7:52 pm

There is no perfect solution to the filtering. No matter what it might get changed to someone will complain that isn't not enough or it's too complicated.

So, we have what we have and that's what it's going to stay for now. Or, I could just delete the filters completely - that's always an option

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