... Placing/removing actual entities is not the same as planning to place/remove entities (that is, creating ghost entities and marking entities for removal), so they should have different verbs. (Don't say "place" ghost entities.) ... The above is exactly spot on right (though I am not s...

When machine actions are functionally identical to player-character actions, they should use the same verb. A player understands that extracting ore from an ore patch is akin to the real-world action of "mining." So the player-character "mines" ore. Then the player builds a machi...

Heck it's a game.... make the recipe take 100 ore and produce 99 U238 and 1 U235 with 100 duration instead of fooling around with milli-items produced. I strongly agree with this idea. The random production of U235 is confusing for new players, and it creates uncertainty about when they'll get thei...