I like both the ideas of changing a distant buildings settings with allowing robots to collect unused items, and expanding blueprint options to allow recipe changes.

The robot idea especially feels very inline with other robot construction functionality.

First, thank you for taking the time for a well thought out constructive response, I genuinely appreciate the feedback.

As to your questions and points, I will do my best to organize my responses.


"Why do you have the need to change the setting of your buildings?"

I believe the best response ...

TL;DR
When in map view (clicking on the minimap and moving around independent of character), I believe it would be beneficial to be able to configure buildings (e.g. assemblers, splitters, combinators, etc...).


What ?
When in map view be able to configure buildings. Currently the player is not ...