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Release repository of the SpaceChem Community Edition
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Add a button to automatically clean up unused arrows and commands on the field #40

Open Darayavaush opened 4 years ago

12345ieee commented 4 years ago

Sadly, SpaceChem isn't an IDE for the SC visual language (I think of it this way honestly, but it really isn't). Space on the interface is at a premium and this is the kind of stuff that feels too codey to add a button for.

Unless you or @csaboka have some brilliant UI idea, I'd drop it.

csaboka commented 4 years ago

If we add a button for this, it would go to the reactor right-click menu. After all, it already has obscure, rarely used things like mirroring, switching colors and reactor reset.

I guess the real question is, how much do we want to automate the game? Do we want to turn it into an IDE where we automate everything we can, or should some of that stuff remain as part of the challenge the game gives the player?

Darayavaush commented 4 years ago

I don't really see how the busywork of cleaning out unused commands can be considered a desired challenge. Also, I'm not feeling your slippery-slope argument, since there aren't that many things to automate even theoretically.