First I'll just say, this is a magnificent mod, absolutely fantastic work.

I have some thoughts that might be able to help reduce visual clutter, and fix some inconsistencies with the how the names are organised alphabetically.

I like to list my platforms with the symbols found in the pencil menu, so my Nauvis' haulers would be named [planet=nauvis] [item=thruster] (name of platform 01, 02, etc). Natively, factorio respects the alphabetisation of the symbol name, so that [planet=aquilo] would come before [planet=nauvis], however in your mod it doesn't and follows only the first listed alphanumeric characters, so there's an inherent mismatch with the game's established naming conventions; my solution has been to use the manual ordering, but it would be cool not to have to worry about that.

The other question is would it be possible to split the option to "hide location and status" into separate tabs, and potentially add an option for hiding the type of starter pack used for the platform?
I really like the traveling indicators but I don't have as much use for the status indicators, so an option to hide them separately instead of together would bee choice, or perhaps to move the status indicators over to the right to clutter the names less?
Also, showing what type of starter pack I used seems kinda pointless, because every platform has used the same starter pack, so its just added noise of the icon when you're hunting through names :/

Again tho, these are minor points of feedback; this is a modlist staple now as far as I'm concerned, so thanks for your mahi <3

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Hi izzet_the_bard,

thanks for the great feedback and the kind words, I really appreciate it!

Sorting with symbols: good catch! Right now the mod strips the symbols before sorting, so [planet=aquilo] and [planet=nauvis] land in the same group. I’m looking into an option to sort by the full name including the symbols, so it follows the game’s order. I’ll let you know when it’s in, then you can check it against your naming scheme.

Status and location: that one is already in the works and almost done. In the next update, which should be out in the next few days, the colored status dot and the location/status column can be hidden separately, so you can keep the travel indicators and drop the status dot (or the other way round). Moving the status dot to the right side is a good idea too, I’ve put it on my list.

Starter pack icon: I think you can already hide that one. The update that just went up today (2.1.18 / 2.1.19) has an option to hide the default platform icon (Settings → Icons tab). If you’re on an older version, updating should make it show up. The scroll bar can be hidden in the next update as well.

Thanks again!

cheers,

Amageddon