Make robots better at placing tiles

[teemu]

The construction robots (while great at building stuff otherwise) are terrible at placing tiles. It takes 9 robots to cover a 3x3 area when a single one can build an entity that takes the same space. Or 25 robots to cover the base of a single oil refinery. This makes them ineffective at placing tiles and take a very long time to cover large areas. The player needs to either wait it out or cover it manually, neither of which is very great.

I suggest that the construction robots be changed to be able to carry more than one of tile items (perhaps respecting the cargo size bonuses) and place them one after another or all at once.

[steinio]

The construction robots (while great at building stuff otherwise) are terrible at placing tiles. It takes 9 robots to cover a 3x3 area when a single one can build an entity that takes the same space. Or 25 robots to cover the base of a single oil refinery. This makes them ineffective at placing tiles and take a very long time to cover large areas. The player needs to either wait it out or cover it manually, neither of which is very great.

I suggest that the construction robots be changed to be able to carry more than one of tile items (perhaps respecting the cargo size bonuses) and place them one after another or all at once.

+1

[Koub]

This reminds me very very much this topic :
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=49429

Almost to the point I'd want to merge them.

I'd also love to see the personal construction robots be less stupid before 1.0 release.

[Volvith]

Yeah, at least making them default to 9 tiles, 3x3, should be implemented.
Plus, the UNGODLY lag 25k robots produce when being told to cover an entire factory... T_T

[Jap2.0]

I say just default to stack size bonus.

[teemu]

I say just default to stack size bonus.

That means the robots would top at 4 tiles. That's not really enough IMO. With, say, 3 × stack size bonus robots would start out at 3 tiles and top at 12 tiles. I think it would be more reasonable.