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Greetings!  I have a suggestion that I believe will help with players who are training their bots.  I suggest that in the next version of the software, have the bot's "My Brain" listing that includes "Repeat" loops show the "current value" that the Repeat is testing and also show the "goal value" that must be reached to satisfy the loop.  For example, if the listing includes "Repeat until Log Storage full", show in the yellow bar immediately below the word "Repeat" the current numbers of logs in storage, and also in the yellow bar below that show the value for Log Storage full.  As another example, if the listing includes "Repeat 15 times", show the current value of the number of times the loop has repeated and below that the goal value of 15.

Below is an image that can illustrate this suggestion.  In it is shown a Steambot wearing a Traffic Cone hat.  Its listing shows that it is responsible for recharging Basic Workerbots in the area 15 times, and before it does that, it has taken a log from Log Storage and stowed the log in its inventory to recharge itself.  (It also will return the log back to Log Storage if the "stow" command failed because its inventory is full.)

It would be helpful to see that this Steambot was on its 3rd repeat of 15 (for example).  It would also be helpful to see for a 2nd bot that had the "Repeat until Log Storage full" loop that there are currently 1996 logs in Log Storage and that "full" is equal to some value, which I believe is 95% of the total capacity of 2100 logs and therefore is 1995 logs.  For the 2nd bot, the Repeat loop would show that it was satisfied.  Please show these numbers in the Repeat loop's yellow bar.  Thank you.

Excellent suggestion! Yes it would be a very good thing to give the player more debugging information so they can work out when it goes wrong. Thanks :)

Thanks.  Let me adjust my suggestion:  Show the "current value" and the "goal value" in the bottom portion of the yellow "Repeat" bar rather than immediately below the word "Repeat".  There is more room for those two values in the bottom portion of the bar than in the left vertical portion.