While limiting bot access to chests might sound good when comapred to limited access chest have with belts, it will create even worse monstrocities like these below (just ideas, multiply it by 100x when smart people math them out): https://i.imgur.com/d7ASG7r.png https://i.imgur.com/TiWLnLF.png Onc...

Factorio seems to be a game which cares about realism for some extent. For me it always seemed super unrealistic that bots are able to fly through each other. So why not limit the amount of bots in a certain area at the same time or add pseudo collision detection so that bots need to fly around eac...

<NO_NAME> wrote:Don't forget to add research that will unlock option to filter via spliters. Prioritizing sides is ok but filtering is too overpowered for early game.

I would like to see the yellow inserter the same as now, the red inserter with prioritize option, the blue inserter with filter.

One way to nerf bots would be, to give a bot a „loading and unloading time“ on a chest of lets say 1s, and only after he is finished loading, the next bot can come ... that way, the throughput of chests can be limited easily, and more bots wouldn‘t increase the throughput of a simple chest to chest...

I don't understand the point "we think about removing something from the game because something else in the game is more fun for us", and you are right to keep logistic bots in the game. I play with other people, some don't use bot at all because they don't like it and play only with belts...