Planning mode ideas (expanding current feature)

[Plasmatic]

So I love the ability to plan now, but I don't like how the planned squares are removed if you mine the rock under them, I use it to plan entire rooms before I dig so I get the right size, but I understand why some may like them to disappear once you've dug under them, perhaps we could have it as an toggle in the options menu? "Planned tiles disappears upon completion" (it's not very descriptive, but yeah)

my usual setup is like this, first I use the planning tool to plan out the size of the room, adding and removing bits to represent the buildings or objects in the room, once that is done, I use the mining tool to mark the entire room, and back to the planning tool to mark out the objects that I want in the room. unfortunately, once my colonists start mining all the planning tiles disappear, which means I either need to watch them mine to replace the planning tiles, or try to remember the layout I had..

I'd also like to not cancel planning tiles with the generic cancel tool. There is a specific tool for planning and removing planning, why have the cancel tool overlap?

I wasn't sure if my ideas warranted a thread of their own, but I figure other people can post their ideas here too.

[daft73]

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my usual setup is like this, first I use the planning tool to plan out the size of the room, adding and removing bits to represent the buildings or objects in the room, once that is done, I use the mining tool to mark the entire room, and back to the planning tool to mark out the objects that I want in the room. unfortunately, once my colonists start mining all the planning tiles disappear, which means I either need to watch them mine to replace the planning tiles, or try to remember the layout I had.....

Something I use to get around mishaps like this: early in the game I pause the game and get the basic layout situated.
While the game is unpaused I will build/mine to a certain point, this way while I'm designing latter parts of the map, the colonists won't mess up the work I'm trying to do.
But generally I just pause when designing.

[Plasmatic]

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my usual setup is like this, first I use the planning tool to plan out the size of the room, adding and removing bits to represent the buildings or objects in the room, once that is done, I use the mining tool to mark the entire room, and back to the planning tool to mark out the objects that I want in the room. unfortunately, once my colonists start mining all the planning tiles disappear, which means I either need to watch them mine to replace the planning tiles, or try to remember the layout I had.....

Something I use to get around mishaps like this: early in the game I pause the game and get the basic layout situated.
While the game is unpaused I will build/mine to a certain point, this way while I'm designing latter parts of the map, the colonists won't mess up the work I'm trying to do.
But generally I just pause when designing.

So do I.. I mean when I unpause and start digging, I'd like the planning tiles to stay there as I have them marking out where to build objects so that I can focus on other things and not have to remember, but currently, the tiles disappear when colonists mine the tiles meaning all my layouts are gone once the room is dug out.