In all of our playthroughts we were always choosing different kind of items to be upgraded at different times based on need, and then we upgraded the master upgrade planner to reflect that. The master upgrade planner could be used anywhere, even repeatedly, and it always upgraded stuff to the current tiers. Having an upgrade planner which upgrades everything to the next tier is quite theoretical need, the same as the current feature of an empty upgrade planner which upgrades evertyhing to the next tier of thing (normal belt->fast belt etc)

But why? If something I would remove the "auto-upgrade" weird feature of an empty upgrade planner. Upgrades always work better when they are explicit decisions. Like, oh I have enough of rare bulk inserters already, lets update my upgrade planner to reflect that. As opposed to, yolo, lets upgrade everything to legendary.

But why? For what? Why would you ever want to upgrade every single item to a higher quality at one time?

It would be much worse, because people would complain, that their precious legendary items were consumed and lost because of a simple filter inserter misconfiguration.

Yes, you can sprikle few quality modules into the factory (assuming it is a final product, and you properly filter it). But we never said that you can just sprinkle the modules everywhere, it is very clear.

Also you absolutely don't have to go 100% all-in on quality, there is a whole spectrum of the involvement of quality in the factory, from completely ignoring, to putting it everywhere and dealing with the complexity.

All I see is a complaint about "when I just randomly put modules into a factory, it will not just magically make everything better", and yes, it is not that simple, but I see it as a feature, not a bug.

Hello, what do you even mean by "highest available quality", where exactly would you like to use it? or "Any quality above X", These sentences are very abstract, and I can't imagine anything specific when reading these.

Yes, you can't request uncommon or higher, because it would be very unclear what it means. And yes, you can order two rarities of the same item.

Why would you want to upgrade everything to higher quality, it makes 0 sense to me. Also, you can alter the blueprint to make just one entry for entity/item you care for, and make it quality < target -> target

Minor Features

• [space-age] Offshore pump speed increases with quality.

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• Curved rails cost 3 rail items to build.

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• Improved performance of technology GUI when viewing only essential technologies. ...

All systems but the metric one were long forgotten in the Factorio universe, so I don't see any ambiguity.

We were actually thinking about megagram and also megameter. But the world isn't ready.

Hello, the removal of the items is specifically for when you opt-in to "downgrade" the factory when loading, you can just load the safe without that option, and you will keep everything.

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• Galaxy of fame. Offered when the game is finished. more

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• Non-blocking saving setting is no longer synced over the Steam cloud.

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• Added flying text for more cases of unsuccessful resource mining.

Bugfixes

• Fixed that blueprint book tooltips did not look correct when in the quickbar. more
• Fixed that m...

Hello. The behaviour of closing the dialog by selecting the ID is something we did before, and it felt super cumbersome, as I had to go all the way down to the quality selection, and only then click the item, so we changed to the confirm

BUT.

I just realized that maybe, it could be done by just changing order in the actual window (did we really not think about this?).

So the quality selection would be at the top, and the item under, so you first select quality and then click, or you only click. It could work also for condition, you can alter the quality filter, or just keep the default (==normal) and press the icon.

I'm not sure if that really can work nicely in the UI and if it would work in practice, but it sounds like something worth trying.

GG

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• Achievement logistic-network-embargo updated with different condition for base game and space age.

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• Fixed a crash when viewing the production statistics GUI while switching surfaces. more
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