The goal is to be able to use remote view for everything you can do locally. The motivation is also to remove as many inconsistencies as possible between the local and remote building, so your muscle memory works almost the same everywhere.
Same for me! / Upvote
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I do have to agree with this, though. Either a different color to the tint, or making the brightness offset kind of extreme.
And when you change the receipe or a working assembly remotely, where do the ingredients already loaded in the assembly for the previous receipe goes ?Once we allowed the remote entity configuration, a new annoying problem popped up. Locally, you might be used to just building an assembling machine and configuring it right away. But with remote building, you had to place the ghost, wait until the robots built it, and then finally you're able to configure it.
YES ! 100%, it's difficult currently to spot some missing yellow inserter in a blueprint when their ghost are present and all are somewhat hidden by powerpoles, they show purple in mapview that's more visible than in game before the blue ghostHowever throughout our testing it became increasingly obvious that distinguishing the ghosts as a whole from real entities was by far the more important feature. You tend to care more whether it is a ghost or not, rather than what type of ghost it is. And we do have a few tricks up our sleeve to preserve the colors.
.I, too play a lot of multiplayer factorio (Monthly Map ftw!!), and think that additional tools for culpability would be useful - perhaps the option to display a notification to chat that "PlayerX initiated deconstruciton at 73,211"Galapagon wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 11:36 am Perhaps a way to view what another player is looking at could be helpful so that we can still keep tabs on new players joining multiplayer maps?
This could have a more broad impact of being able to work with your friends, or understand what they're looking at if they're struggling with something as a new player.
If you're like me, you might even be willing to leave your camera on someone else just to keep the game active while working in a different window.
The alternative suggestion would be new permissions to adjust what new players can do with remote view. This might be told to have anyway, but would be frustrating for the vast majority of players who only want to have fun.
This would also unfortunately leave griefers in "stealth mode" causing damage undetected.
Perhaps opaque (same transparency level as normal) with a red tint?serhatozgel wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 2:37 pm Ghosts are looking much better now! I would not consider remotely building a piece of factory with ghosts but I can see I'll do it all the time now.
One suggestion: With the ghost looking so slick now, the deconstruction mark "X" now feels outdated. Could entities marked for deconstruction be tinted too, perhaps with a different style?
Getting rid of the X would make it even harder for anyone with visual issues. I would like to see the opposite: left plain if there are no robots/materials, a question mark if there are robots and materials but not yet assigned, and a check mark when a robot is assigned to this task.serhatozgel wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 2:37 pm One suggestion: With the ghost looking so slick now, the deconstruction mark "X" now feels outdated. Could entities marked for deconstruction be tinted too, perhaps with a different style?
And another: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Blue-Ghosts
