Indicator Lights / Bottleneck

Quality of life UI & UX
Normmta2 [ideas] · 4 years ago

Not certain if this is already a feature but I wasn't able to find anything about it in the documentation/forums. Here's the best example I can give of what I'm referring to.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Bottleneck
Really simple in concept but super helpful.
Just an easier way to identify machines that are input-starved.
I felt the need for this primarily when using the assembly workshops because there's no animation that indicates if the workshops are functioning at all. I found myself constantly checking each workshop individually to see if they were input. I understand that the graph at the right of the screen kind of does this, but this would be a great visual reference to see where a problem exists.
Satisfactory also has these similar lights as part of the vanilla game.
https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Indicator_Light
Nothing grandiose, just indicator lights.

Ebonhawk [ideas] · 4 years ago

100%
It's beginning to get tedious to go back through every machine in a complex production chain (like 3 part distillation w/ strippers and scrubbers for example) again and again to check that nothing has backed up or I missed a connector etc. Seeing at a glance where something isn't running efficiently would be a godsend.

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