[2.0.15] On Volcanus construction requests don't count as logistic network requests

[gdubrocks]

If I place down 10 assembler ghosts, it shows in the bottom right corner that the logistics network is short 10 assemblers, but if I attach a circuit from the roboport to the cargo depot and set the roboport to "send logistic requests" the construction requests don't make it to the cargo depot.

This is pretty annoying because even if I have a ship over Volcanus with the 10 assemblers in the ship it won't drop them down to the planet automatically.

Expected behavior: All entities in the bottom photo are included in the top photo.

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[Rseding91]

Thanks for the report. That is intended and never includes construction requests.

[gdubrocks]

Why would this be intended behavior? I can't think of a reason why a player wouldn't want construction requests included in the list.

Would it be possible to get an extra toggle that does include construction requests?

[gdubrocks]

Thanks for the report. That is intended and never includes construction requests.

Why would this be intended behavior? I can't think of a reason why a player wouldn't want construction requests included in the list.

Would it be possible to get an extra toggle that does include construction requests so that this very common use case could be handled?

[Rseding91]

The full list is not know by the game and would need to be computed each tick in a very performance heavy way. Because of that, it is not included.

[gdubrocks]

The full list is not know by the game and would need to be computed each tick in a very performance heavy way. Because of that, it is not included.

Why is it possible in two separate locations then? It works just fine on the alerts menu in the bottom, and on spaceships.

Would it be possible to
A) Add an option or two on roboports and mention it's performance heavy, the game is so performant and this is such a significant QoL feature that I doubt people would mind.
or
B) Not compute it every tick? Perhaps maintain a list that only gets updated when a building is built (not that often), update it as part of the construction process, or simply run it less often than every tick (every second, when a construction robot gets called/returned)

[Muche]

Ref 122835 Can't request captive biter spawner.

[Nidan]

Why is it possible in two separate locations then? It works just fine on the alerts menu in the bottom, and on spaceships.

See FFF 415, section "Faster construction robot tasks". Tl;dr: Things were optimized for 2.0 and we're no longer limited to 600 construction alerts like in 1.1. But there's still no guarantee that the alerts provide the complete list.
Space platforms are a simpler case: There's exactly one construction zone per platform and it includes the whole platform/surface. You could thus, for example (factorio might do something different), keep a running total of the blueprints existing on the surface. No need to invoke construction bot logic or trying to figure out which construction zones a blueprint belongs to.