Can I limit the range of the personal roboport?

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Can I limit the range of the personal roboport?

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I've equipped three personal roboports, because I can. Now the bots go off to what seems like the far end of the world... triple ports not only increases the number of bots I can use, but also inflates the service area. I don't have many upgrades yet, so it takes the bots a lot of time to get there and back again. I'm already wondering if fewer ports might not be more workable, even though that also means fewer bots.

Shorter: having many bots at hand is fine, but i'd really prefer if they stuck closer to me for the time being. Can this somehow be accomplished?
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Re: Can I limit the range of the personal roboport?

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Eh? Personal roboports have a limited range.
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Re: Can I limit the range of the personal roboport?

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Range depends on the number of ports in your inventory. If you have a large number, you might try taking some out.
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Re: Can I limit the range of the personal roboport?

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In my opinion, the personal roboport range is quite small. Are you using modded roboports?
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Re: Can I limit the range of the personal roboport?

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https://wiki.factorio.com/Personal_roboport_MK2
This is for vanilla. If you don't experience this, then you're probably not playing vanilla :).
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