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The personal roboport can fire some "temporary roboport capsule". This is a not very expensive capsule. Something about/below the cost of distractor capsules. If fired it creates a temporary roboport for about a minute or so, that basically works exactly as the personal roboport.

Any robot, that is inside this roboport, when it disappears is hypertransported back to your inventory.

Usages:
- Expand your personal roboport area.
- Move away, even if your robots are still working
- Catch robots, that try to fly back to you, but you want to ride by car/train now.
- All situations, where you need to wait for the bots, while you can do other things.



Inspired by https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =6&t=14598

Seems like its incredibly niche, an awkward in between from the personal roboport and the real roboports. What use would it be? Only much for impatient players who don't want to wait around 30 seconds watching their bots work, but not invested enough to put down a real roboport + solar panels. In fact a blueprint of a roboport, substation and solar panels would render this capsule essentially obsolete.

It's about the problem, that you constantly loose your bots.
Drive by train, you have marked a forest for deconstruction: Wosh, all your bots are gone.
This capsules catch your bots and brings them back to you.

But I admit, this whole idea is not very clever.

It's just too hot. http://www.wetteronline.de/wetter/wuerzburg

I dunno about this. By the time blue tech is available, it's not a big deal to haul at least one roboport around for major tasks. Before then you simply don't use nor have enough resources to need this kind of heavy automation.

Don't forget that forests can be cleared with poison capsules and shotguns. It wastes wood, but that's just the price of low tech clear cutting.

I'm not really seeing the need for this. You can expand your personal roboport coverage by adding more ports.