Suggest UI button to hide robots and prevent mining them

[marcoevich]

Hi all,

There are parts of my base which have a lot of robots flying around. I frequently mine them accidentally, or they just distract and prevent me from seeing what I want to see.

I suggest adding some UI button which allows to hide robots from view and prevent me from mining them.

Example:

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[blizgerg]

OOoh, I like this idea +1

[Optera]

+1
That feature alone is why i was using small fixes and picker extended.

Picking robots out of the sky also is very common cheat to recharge them.

[Tekky]

I also have the problem that I frequently mine drones by accident. Therefore, I am in favor of a fix of some kind, such as the suggestion of the original poster.

[golfmiketango]

I kind of see this like belts moving the player. It's inconvenient but amusing and sensible game behavior.

Not saying I'm against this idea. It would be pretty sweet actually.

With ridiculous cheater power armor, plucking personal robots from the air rather than letting them charge really saves time. They can take /forever/ to sort themselves out once your personal construction bot area/count gets large enough... in general crazy mega- robot anything starts to cause a lot of silly stuff: needing almost 50% of available tiles to be occupied by roboports, darkening the skies with impenetrable clouds of robots, and constant, unavoidable accidental mining of robots in transit (thank god for autotrash or this would be much less tolerable). A lot of this makes perfect sense, but can become pretty frustrating.

[Zool]

+1

But first of all, I ask myself why we need to be able to grab robots out of the sky at all??? There may be a very rare occassion now & then, where you want something like that, but most of the time, you'd never even concider this. Usually, you'd just just grab them out of a roboport.

(Btw, if you grab a bot out of the sky, does it really get reloaded "for free" as Optera claims? If yes, it should at least remove the required energy from your armor.)

[marcoevich]

+1

But first of all, I ask myself why we need to be able to grab robots out of the sky at all??? There may be a very rare occassion now & then, where you want something like that, but most of the time, you'd never even concider this. Usually, you'd just just grab them out of a roboport.

I've seen many people on youtube grabbing robots out of the sky, seems to be faster then letting them recharge.

Good to see that there are more folks hoping for this feature Does anyone know of a mod or something that already implements this?

[ssilk]

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[nljr]

(Btw, if you grab a bot out of the sky, does it really get reloaded "for free" as Optera claims? If yes, it should at least remove the required energy from your armor.)

Absolutely. I made a post here a while back about it, and it was flagged as a duplicate, so it's a well-known exploit. Mining robots for your personal roboport instantly recharges them. This is damn useful if you don't want to mess around with lots of solar and batteries, but don't have the fusion generator yet. Your personal robots will try to charge, but never succeed. You can just right-click to recharge them instantly.

[Engimage]

I would personally vote for removing the ability to mine bots at all but fix personal power generation as well.