Surface names

[AstraLuma]

As a follow-up to #6, I want to discuss what is a good way to include surface names?

I'm guessing the utility of it will vary by modpack. Eg, super great for space exploration, maybe not so great for factorissimo.

But at least for our use case, where we're writing a custom collector and playing space exploration, the name would be pretty nice to have.

@ccbrown, do you have opinions on this?

[agmlego]

I wonder if just including that into the factorystatsd-game-data.json file would be sufficient?

[ccbrown]

The game-data file is only written once when you open up the game. It wouldn't be able to handle surfaces created or changed during gameplay.

I would probably just add data for surfaces that have active combinators to the samples JSON file. Maybe something like this:

{
    "surfaces": [
        {
            "index": 1,
            "name": "nauvis"
        }
    ],
    "entities": [
        {
            "unit_number": 7,
            "surface_index": 1,
            "settings": {
                "name": "",
                "tags": "",
                "absent_signals": "ignore"
            }
        }
    ],
    "ticks": 1135200
}

[agmlego]

That would work great!