Caps lock to control personal roboport

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Caps lock to control personal roboport

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It would be nice to have control when things are done by personal roboport and when they are done by local roboport network. So there is idea:
a) Caps lock to enable/disable personal roboport
b) when personal roboport is enabled all build operations have priority to build by personal robots. Meaning that local roboport network may also build them but when ever there is personal bots idle and charged they will try build these things. So both robot networks start build same commad queue but from different directions. When they meet "center" of queue build operations start collide and slower one is cancelled.
c) When personal roboport is disabled whole build queue is given only for local net
d) when personal roboport is re enabled in area where is non build things it will not automatically start do ghosts what was planted when personal roboport was disables. Re sharing need some other key (like right shift or something else)

Reasoning:
Currently specially when you disassemble large areas it will DoS your personal robots. It is pain to take all roboports off from your suit before you give command and then walk away from area and put them back. With that feature you can just disable own roboport, put area to clean, re enable port and start build things. Reason for that queue "racing" is that currently when stationary robot network is large, many times there is situations when you have non build things but your own idle robots do not start build them because there is "somewhere" robot coming at local robot network. That why it would be nice that when command queue is shared both robots start doing it as race but different ends of queue. So all things get build as fast is it is possible and slower robots just cancel their task if other (personal or local) robot net get it done faster. Yes it can be waste of energy but still it it better than current logic where some times you need go to get pizza mean while some last things get build.

If that racing feels to radical then another way to do that can be that this extra key what it used after enabling/disabling personal roboport to reassign things can also work to reassign queue. So it can work so that when there is non build thing and you have fee bots & items to build thing you just press that key and it will give these tasks to your bots and cancel given tasks from network. Anyway that can make problem that when there is "almost ready" things it will cancel them and slow down things. That why racing can be better even it is less sophisticated way to do that.

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Re: Caps lock to control personal roboport

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Added to viewtopic.php?f=80&t=20566 Changes for the Personal Roboport
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Re: Caps lock to control personal roboport

Post by Selvek »

Seconded. Another use case is controlling whether you want your bots to try and repair your turrets during combat or not (and possibly get destroyed).

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