Assembly Hall

When you initially set-up or change your planetary facilities or schematics it's quite a timely process and I can think of some ways this can be improved to save time and make life easier for capsuleers who do Planetary interaction.

When placing production facilities or extractors, you have to select the facility or extractor, place it and then keep repeating the process until all your desired facilities are placed. Instead of this process a better way would be to select the desired facility and remain in placement mode for that facility until you've placed the desired amount of facilities, then you can select the next facility to be placed.

The same thing applies with link creation. To create links you click on 'create link' then you click on the 1st facility, then the 2nd and a link is created. Then this process is repeated for every link. I think it'd work better if you enter a link creation mode and instead of clicking on the from and to facility, you'd click-drag instead, that way you can continue creating links from and to facilities without having to click on 'create link' every time.

Another nice feature would be an undo option in case you accidentally routed, placed or linked something incorrectly. this would be better than cancelling all your changes, deleting individual links or decommissioning individual facilities.

Then another timely process is installing schematics and routing incoming and outgoing commodities. This however I haven't been able to think of a better way of doing. All I can think of for now is having a schematic paint mode, different ones for basic, advanced and high-tech facilities so that a single schematic can be assigned to multiple facilities quickly and easily.
As for routing to and from facilities, I think a better way would be to show it's produced commodity and required commodities in a single, tab-separated window where you can select one of them and assign a route where it has to output it's produced commodity or take it's required commodities from instead of having to go to it's 'Products' option and route it's produced commodity, then having to go to the facility storing or producing the required commodities and routing them to that facility. But on this option I think someone out there might have a better suggestion?

PI is currently a timely and slightly irritating process if you're not focusing on producing a single product continuously. Hopefully this can be improved in the future. o7