Add timer to tasks

[Tarrke]

I'd like to have a spare field to set a target something. My main idea is to set target timers for tasks, such as : get my steel research done by 30 minutes or something like that.

[JonasJurczok]

What do you want to achieve with this?

I was planning to add target locations at some point. So that you could mark locations on the map where you want stuff to be done, but I never thought about timers.

What would be the use case for this?

[Tarrke]

I thought about the "there is no spoon" achivement. I'm building a task list in order to achieve this, and I have strech goals I should be able to clear within a certain timeframe. Really it's like this :

• get 24 iron smelter running at 0'25'00
• get 12 copper smelter running at 0'30'00

and so on...

[JonasJurczok]

Ah okay. Basically a time tracking aspect.

Hmm... We could add an additional field. I don't know enough about Factorio time tracking (yet) to decide how to properly do this. Because I'm afraid the time that you get from the lua environment will be your local time. And as this is a multiplayer mod you would end up in timezone hell :D

Let's bounce the idea around for a while and see if we end somewhere that is satisfactory for everyone :)

[JonasJurczok]

Feature got requested in https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Todo-List/discussion/5d24cfb19c0a30000cd4ca72

[CTNOriginals]

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