module/power icons should not hide alt view machine states

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module/power icons should not hide alt view machine states

Post by ptx0 »

TL;DR
as seen in this clip: https://youtu.be/81Wgp3bnSZw?t=184

the module request icons and power blinky icons both interfere with seeing what a machine is doing.

a more sensible solution is to have it in a particular corner of the machine like lower left corner - or, to have alt view display over this interface, since we can always then disable it to see whether machine has power or not.

otherwise it sort of breaks alt view.
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Re: module/power icons should not hide alt view machine states

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Also several requests that the blinking itself is annoying. I use a mod that reduces the size o% the icons for now. https://mods.factorio.com/mod/SmoothWarnings
I think there are others, but this one is in my eyes a good compromise.
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