Radar cameras/networks
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 1:10 pm
How many times have you made an expansion for whatever reason, turned everything on, placed a radar, and went on doing something else somewhere else. Once in a while a thought comes up - I wonder how's my mining going on there, or how are my defenses holding up over there.
What if at any radar you could request a snapshot of the surroundings of another radar. In this snapshot you would be able to clearly see everything you could possibly need as long as it is in the snapshot range - resources and how much of the resource is left (unlike 'just colored dots' in the map), and all your buildings. But you could only view the stuff, and not really interact with anything as you most probably are somewhere else on map.
Now i'm not sure whether the radars should actually be connected into a network, similar to Roboports, to be able to 'communicate'.
So you could take say 5 advanced circuits (random number) or craft an empty snapshot (similarly to the blueprints) and take it to a radar, select a different radar, and receive a snapshot. A dilemma though - should it be possible to view it only at a radar, or you can carry the snapshot around and it would update with the specific radar's scan cycle.
Anyway, this is how much I've come up with on this idea.
Do you think this would actually be useful, and maybe you have even better options for this?
What if at any radar you could request a snapshot of the surroundings of another radar. In this snapshot you would be able to clearly see everything you could possibly need as long as it is in the snapshot range - resources and how much of the resource is left (unlike 'just colored dots' in the map), and all your buildings. But you could only view the stuff, and not really interact with anything as you most probably are somewhere else on map.
Now i'm not sure whether the radars should actually be connected into a network, similar to Roboports, to be able to 'communicate'.
So you could take say 5 advanced circuits (random number) or craft an empty snapshot (similarly to the blueprints) and take it to a radar, select a different radar, and receive a snapshot. A dilemma though - should it be possible to view it only at a radar, or you can carry the snapshot around and it would update with the specific radar's scan cycle.
Anyway, this is how much I've come up with on this idea.
Do you think this would actually be useful, and maybe you have even better options for this?
