Armor quick switch and auto-request when building.

[Euphytose]

1) How do I quick switch armors? Can I even do that? Drag n dropping is tedious and sometimes risky.

2) Whenever I have something I'm not going to use soon, I trash it into the storage chests. Problem is, sometimes I do need that something, so I just build it, and the one in the storage stays there. I would need to make a request every time.

Is it possible to automatically make a request for an item I'm trying to build if I'm in a network?

[KatherineOfSky]

1. The easiest way to switch armor is to open inventory, grab new armor from inventory, then place it on your equip area in the lower right corner. (This will prevent item bombs, providing the armor is of the same tier.

2, The game isn't psychic, so there are a couple of ways to dealing with this: if you are needing more than one -- craft one, and either take a blueprint of it, or shift click it where it needs to go. Robots will grab items from Storage chests first.

Second: I tend to build in localized stretches -- i.e. building an outpost, I need rails, walls, signals, miners, etc. If I am doing oil, I take refineries, pipes, curved pipes, chem plants, electric engines/pumps, etc.

I just request all the items I need for an area at the same time. It is very rare that I need just 1x of something.

[Euphytose]

Yeah, that's what I do, that is drag n dropping and I find it quite annoying to constantly switch that way. I was hoping there was a shortcut I missed.

I don't understand how it's "psychic".

Let's say I trash a chemical plant. I now have 1 chemical in my storage network.

I then decide that I need to build one, so that's what I do.

What happens currently is that I'll build that chemical plant instead of requesting the item from the storage, which wastes the stored item. What would be better is if the game did a quick check in the network, and then either bring it to you, or build it.

[KatherineOfSky]

Originally posted by Euphytose:

Yeah, that's what I do, that is drag n dropping and I find it quite annoying to constantly switch that way. I was hoping there was a shortcut I missed.

I don't understand how it's "psychic".

Let's say I trash a chemical plant. I now have 1 chemical in my storage network.

I then decide that I need to build one, so that's what I do.

What happens currently is that I'll build that chemical plant instead of requesting the item from the storage, which wastes the stored item. What would be better is if the game did a quick check in the network, and then either bring it to you, or build it.

Oh I see, I misunderstood part of it. In that case, all you need to do is blueprint the item and copy it down on the ground. The robots will take it from storage place it.

[Euphytose]

I should have tons of blueprints then. But for assembling machines they're so quick to build that I'll probably forget.

[KatherineOfSky]

Originally posted by Euphytose:

I should have tons of blueprints then. But for assembling machines they're so quick to build that I'll probably forget.

You don't need tons. Just carry 1 blueprint around. When you need an extra assembler at the end of the line, blueprint one that's already on the ground, plonk the BP, then clear the blueprint for the next item.

(Things like assembly machines, power poles, etc. never leave my inventory :-)