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I wish there was a way to reduce the area of a roboports supplyarea/ constructionarea/ logistics network.

Because I would like to make smaller, isolated production areas where I don't want my robots to fly everywhere.

Also, I would like to create a different logisics network, even if ports are connected. So that I could keep decluttered compact sites with different demands. And maybe I will let my logistics network share robots or not.

So to summarize:
1. Option to reduce supplyarea/construction area of a roboport down to a minimum
2. Option to detach the roboport from an logistics network. Like the wifi-list of a office-building. Lots of different networks each doing it's own thing.

edit: I'm dumb, ignore this.

1. Seems like it would be a bit too complicated.
I'm all for 2, which also makes 1. unneeded.

In practice the game can already manage multiple logistic networks, as long as they don't touch each other. 

It would be nice if we could overlap them, and I am curious if that's really hard to implement or a performance issue?

Claudius1729 wrote:1. Seems like it would be a bit too complicated.
I'm all for 2, which also makes 1. unneeded.

In practice the game can already manage multiple logistic networks, as long as they don't touch each other. 

It would be nice if we could overlap them, and I am curious if that's really hard to implement or a performance issue?

Well, 1 would be needed to prevent overlapping from adjacent roboports.

Ah sorry dumb answer from me, I didn't realize the kind of problems overlapping network could create, like networks competing for tasks.

Having tunable logistic area would be awesome. Upvoting!

However strongly against the second one. Current game mechanics presume every object belongs to a single logistic network. Otherwise it would be a great confusion for the system and common logic as well.

PacifyerGrey wrote:Having tunable logistic area would be awesome. Upvoting!

However strongly against the second one. Current game mechanics presume every object belongs to a single logistic network. Otherwise it would be a great confusion for the system and common logic as well.

That's totally not the case. Even the developers own maps (V's in particular) have distinct separate networks, spaced out to isolate them from each other.

I'm also strongly against that sort of changes, simply as its an unneccessary complication of a well working system.

I use split networks a lot, for example a bigger station has its own seperated network to make sure, that the sorting works quickly and with maximum capacity. The only downside right now is, that you need to have the seperate logistic network in mind while building - I just place a ring of hazard concrete in the "unnetworked area" to make sure I don't make any connection by mistake. Its all about planning.

Zool wrote:I'm also strongly against that sort of changes, simply as its an unneccessary complication of a well working system.

I use split networks a lot, for example a bigger station has its own seperated network to make sure, that the sorting works quickly and with maximum capacity. The only downside right now is, that you need to have the seperate logistic network in mind while building - I just place a ring of hazard concrete in the "unnetworked area" to make sure I don't make any connection by mistake. Its all about planning.

You're missing the point of the original poster. They want to be able to have a *smaller* logistic network that can be separated from other sections (just as you are currently doing). They want to be able to have adjacent logistic networks within a smaller space (currently prevented by the roboports auto-linking to eachother if placed too close together).

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