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TL;DR

What?

Allow to set turret filters per group or even per some internal property, rather than only specific prototypes.

Why?

Some mods add many new enemies and even tiers of enemies with different resistances and weaknesses. Adding them all to the filters creates large lists that are rather inconvenient to scroll through, and a lot of turrets with large lists may take a toll on UPS or RAM (though the latter reason is more of a guess since I don't know how exactly the filters work). Below are some examples from Krastorio 2 + Rampant, fixed combo and a rampant discussion.

Great idea. Even in vanilla, it's annoying to add all kinds of spitters, strafers, etc., individually instead of just selecting entire groups. With mods, it becomes a nightmare. The same goes for asteroids. Why should we have to do extra clicks in every game to add every type of big or huge asteroid, when we always just want the whole group?

It would be great if the game automatically created groups based on type (biter, spitter, metallic, carbon, etc.) and size (small, medium, etc.) and placed these groups at the start of the enemy list.

Second that. Maybe they can use the existing request group mechanism? It already allows arbitrary signals and should be directly usable as a turret filter. Using a request group would also allow const combinators to output filter groups as signals.

+1, very relevant for prom ships too

+1, I'd love to have more flexible turret priority controls!