Add a hotkey for the Electric Network Info panel

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Add a hotkey for the Electric Network Info panel

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Playing Factorio again for the first time in 2 years. Am I crazy or did there used to be a hotkey for opening up the Electric Network Info panel and now there isn't one?

I can pull it up by clicking on a Small electric pole, but I've looked through the Controls menu, and I even used the search for "electric" in it and there's nothing.

Why is there not hotkey for this menu? I'm so confused right now.
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DeserveVictory wrote: Thu Nov 05, 2020 4:25 am Why is there not hotkey for this menu? I'm so confused right now.
Which electric network would the hotkey open? While there's usually just one network, there can be many different ones.

Clicking on a power pole specifies which electric network to inspect, because each power pole can only belong to one network.
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That makes a lot of sense. I must be remembering wrong then.
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Yoyobuae wrote: Thu Nov 05, 2020 4:42 am
DeserveVictory wrote: Thu Nov 05, 2020 4:25 am Why is there not hotkey for this menu? I'm so confused right now.
Which electric network would the hotkey open? While there's usually just one network, there can be many different ones.

Clicking on a power pole specifies which electric network to inspect, because each power pole can only belong to one network.
like the L key shows a dropdown of all of them
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ptx0 wrote: Thu Nov 05, 2020 5:52 am like the L key shows a dropdown of all of them
Which is kinda a mess because "Network #6 - 21 cells" doesn't quite tell which one it is or where it is located.
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Yoyobuae wrote: Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:08 pm
ptx0 wrote: Thu Nov 05, 2020 5:52 am like the L key shows a dropdown of all of them
Which is kinda a mess because "Network #6 - 21 cells" doesn't quite tell which one it is or where it is located.
well, it works for me.. because the network with the most cells is my main base..
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Re: Add a hotkey for the Electric Network Info panel

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With the new space platform this should be added again.
Apparently there is a little icon you can use to access it but it's not as convenient as it's pretty tiny.
https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comme ... _on_space/

Also I support showing the most active network because chances are that's the only network, or the only one that matters.
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