I keep coming back but

[Nightstar]

@Dhusk

Here’s what I want:

1. Go gather everything I need for the build (from a raw material perspective). Literally everything.
2. Come back and drop it into my machines in some streamlined, easy way. For example, James mentioned a potential upcoming crafting update that will include, among a bunch of other things, the ability to “auto-queue” machines to craft whatever you tell them to. You drop the mats in, they craft that automatically as a mass craft or whatever you set it to. Take this idea but take it a step further and have a SINGLE repository you drop all your ■■■■ off in and is attached to your machine network and the machines pick things up and craft what you set automatically.
3. I want the machines to be able to auto-craft multiple stages. i.e. You put iron ore into the repository. You have your furnaces, compactors, refineries and workbenches hooked up to the repository and have them all set to auto-craft bars > compact iron mass craft > refined iron mass craft > machined iron mass craft.

Ah, now you’re hitting a real target.

@Dhusk

I drop the stuff off and log off the game for however long and come back to all my stuff crafted.

Nothing to do with “idle crafting times” at all, then.

I’ve literally been selling 300% profits and giving away coins because I can’t be bothered to click a queue thousands of times and cart hundreds of batches of stuff between machines when minting the raw stuff is micro-profits lol.

@Peyago

I see purchasing building materials as a rich persons game or for those who have lots of play time.

Ironically most of the people I see post about buying common materials are people saying they need more coins to be able to build due to limited playtime.