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When a spidertron is in contact with a power pole, spidertron batteries and robots should recharge much more rapidly

What ?

Spidertron batteries and personal roboport robot recharging make sense. But it should be possible to go "plug-in"
by making contact with a power pole. When in contact with sufficient grid power, spidertron should recharge much more
rapidly, perhaps 3x or even 10x the normal recharge rate.

Why ?

The natural recharge rate has a nice balancing effect on the game, particularly when spidertron is out foraging far
from your factory. But when you're making massive changes to a megabase, the delay in recharging your own bots and
the bots in your spidertron can feel very limiting. As a compromise, allow a spidertron to connect to grid power when
standing on a power pole, and to thereby receive a far more rapid rate of recharge.

jdashton wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 22, 2023 2:42 pm

Why ?

The natural recharge rate has a nice balancing effect on the game, particularly when spidertron is out foraging far
from your factory. But when you're making massive changes to a megabase, the delay in recharging your own bots and
the bots in your spidertron can feel very limiting. As a compromise, allow a spidertron to connect to grid power when
standing on a power pole, and to thereby receive a far more rapid rate of recharge.

But why do you use spidertrons and not construction robots for that?
Also, this could be a good mod suggestion.

Here's one mod (there are others):

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Induction%20Charging

Illiander42 wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 22, 2023 5:29 pm

Here's one mod (there are others):

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Induction%20Charging

Hares wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 22, 2023 5:08 pm

jdashton wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 22, 2023 2:42 pm

Why ?

The natural recharge rate has a nice balancing effect on the game, particularly when spidertron is out foraging far
from your factory. But when you're making massive changes to a megabase, the delay in recharging your own bots and
the bots in your spidertron can feel very limiting. As a compromise, allow a spidertron to connect to grid power when
standing on a power pole, and to thereby receive a far more rapid rate of recharge.

But why do you use spidertrons and not construction robots for that?
Also, this could be a good mod suggestion.

There's actually a good reason for using construction spiders instead of robots - It lets you use multiple disconnected logi grids.

See 6866.