I'm not sure if this is intended or not, but since there is a range limit for the player being able to move entities, it doesn't make sense that you can just open remote view and move it regardless of where it's on the map. Kinda defeats the purpose of having a range limit.

In case this is intended, please add an option to disable this behavior, so only the player can move entities by physically being near them.

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Interesting, never thought of this (interaction between EPD and remote view). Thank you for bringing this up, I will look into it next time I touch the mod

https://github.com/hgschmie/factorio-even-pickier-dollies/issues/7

This is implemented in 2.7.0. Entities can no longer be moved in a remote view. There is a startup setting to restore the old behavior and cheat mode bypasses that restriction.

Awesome, thank you :)

Noticed this as well a few days ago and even thought about suggesting it. Only to then today notice it didn't work anymore and wondering if I just misremembered. :D

First, let me thank you for making this toggleable! I was caught by surprise when I returned after a several-months pause and wasn't able to move my space machines.
But I would also like to express my disagreement with the sentiment of this thread/issue. Remote view has nothing to do with player range.
Case in point, in normal player view you can't set recipes on distant machines, but you can set recipes on any machine in remote view.
In general remote view should allow (almost) the same interactions as if the player was right next to a player controllable entity.
Still, I'm glad this was raised because it makes me happy to see an active Factorio community!

While I can agree with you to some degree, I also don't believe that being able to move machines makes any sense. I can see recipes being changed as fair since that could be interpreted like sending a command from a "remote view computer" to a program, but the machine moving should require physical activity, like using bots for example, or your character.

My reason for wanting the limit was simply because I didn't like being able to move around turrets and cheese killing off nests completely safely from distance. But since there's a toggle now, everyone is happy! :D