A "Planning Mode" where new constructions are paused for finding the right layout

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• 04 Jun, '25
  samapico

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  Something I've seen in other games is using the "On/Off" button of the building as a "pause construction" toggle while it's being constructed.
  
  A blueprint mode can be more practical to plan larger projects, but it could be as simple as effectively defaulting new buildings to "paused". In any case, being able to pause construction of a single building is a must: sometimes you need to stop bringing your resources to that one large building, but you don't want to cancel all the progress.

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• 18 Jul, '24
  Alan Merged

  I want the ability to outline or blueprint my building designs without having to dedicated time and resources upfront. Like the ability to place ghost images of buildings, belts, and wires for free just for future planning purposes and even excavation purposes.

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• 26 Jul, '24
  friendly hint

  drones that are setup for digging will only dig and not build
  thats why you have to manually add 5 drones to the drone configuration module

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• 28 Jul, '24
  LarsTheDevil

  yeah I know - I have currently 20 digger and 20 hauler drones and 9 basic drones

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• 03 Aug, '24
  Lars

  Pause the game?

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• 29 Aug, '24
  Xaos

  This is something I would desperately love to have. Having to demolish and rebuild because you put something in the wrong place is a massive pain. Having a "ghost" mode for buildings (that will stay in that mode until you choose to build them) would add a lot of versatility and replay ability to the game. And also, please ensure that the port labels are always shown in planning mode. This would be number 1 on my list or most requested features.

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• 29 Aug, '24
  Xaos

  Adding to this, the ability to copy-cut-paste groups of buildings in planning mode would also be really awesome.

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• 30 Aug, '24
  Ray

  Would be nice if you could save a load blocks of this design similar. It's one thing to have a planning mode, it's another thing entirely to be able to save and load the designs once made game after game.

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• 01 Nov, '24
  JonJon

  I have been surprised there is no blueprint feature. For these types of games this is pretty standard.
  A planning mode would be a good step.

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• 21 Jan, '25
  Zajnee

  I think this could be "easily" done by allowing a "level zero priority", so if the Priority of the building was set to zero, the drones would not bring materials or build the building - that way the interface is already in the game.

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• 17 Mar
  IRAKLE System

  "Blueprint Mode/Planning Mode" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-07-18), including upvotes (24) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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