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Hi,

I want to suggest to add "yellow dotted lines" to radars in placement mode to already placed radars (like what we have with roboports) which would make it much easier to place if you want optimal radar placement in a huge area without gaps or overlaps of the active radar areas.

Currently we have to count that 224 tiles if we want optimal placement which is not comfortable at all.

FatMcK wrote:Hi,

I want to suggest to add "yellow dotted lines" to radars in placement mode to already placed radars (like what we have with roboports) which would make it much easier to place if you want optimal radar placement in a huge area without gaps or overlaps of the active radar areas.

Currently we have to count that 224 tiles if we want optimal placement which is not comfortable at all.

Turn on grid and go by the thick lines.
Radars work in chunks, not in tiles. It doesn't matter where in a chunk you place them they will have the same coverage.

Optera wrote: Radars work in chunks, not in tiles. It doesn't matter where in a chunk you place them they will have the same coverage.

Oh, didn't knew that yet. Thanks for the info!

But I still think there should be some kind of help for placing radars. Turning the grid overlay on and off for placing radars doesn't seem to be the best solution.

The good question here is: why do you think you need to cover everything with radar?

IMHO it's not really needed and sucks up a lot of energy.

ssilk wrote:The good question here is: why do you think you need to cover everything with radar?

IMHO it's not really needed and sucks up a lot of energy.

they're about to become a lot more useful with the map zooming in 0.15 though aren't they?

ssilk wrote:The good question here is: why do you think you need to cover everything with radar?

The best answer for this is: cause we can!

But also what TakingItCasual said:

TakingItCasual wrote: they're about to become a lot more useful with the map zooming in 0.15 though aren't they?

IMHO it's not really needed and sucks up a lot of energy.

I think energy in factorio is no big deal. And on top of this we get nuclear power with 0.15.

FatMcK wrote:Currently we have to count that 224 tiles if we want optimal placement which is not comfortable at all.

I'll just say ... this might or might not have been improved in 0.15.

posila wrote:

FatMcK wrote:Currently we have to count that 224 tiles if we want optimal placement which is not comfortable at all.

I'll just say ... this might or might not have been improved in 0.15.

hey leave this for me to say