[2.0.20] Personal construction bots will take equipped armor/inventory from remote view ghost request

[Gerkiz]

Hello,

It seems that when you request an item from remote view to an passive provider chest, logistic robots will "steal" items from the players inventory.
So players can grief quite easily in multiplayer as long this exists.



Kind regards,
Gerkiz

[LCStark]

I can't seem to replicate it, construction requests only take from the inventory as per usual and don't grab the equipped armor. Is there anything else you're doing?

[Loewchen]

I couldn't reproduce at first, but now I can and I don't know what the key element was. Any chest works btw.

[Gerkiz]

I do apologize for not providing the steps.

1. Place roboport (make sure that it has power)
2. Insert logistic robots inside the roboport
3. Place down an passive provider chest
4. Give the player some items
5. Enter "remote view"
6. Open the "passive provider chest"
7. Request any item that the player has in their inventory from the passive provider chest
8. The robot should have picked up the items that was "requested" from the player if the player was inside the logistic network

/Gerkiz

[Rseding91]

Thanks for the report however this is working correctly.

[IsaacOscar]

I do apologize for not providing the steps.

1. Place roboport (make sure that it has power)
2. Insert logistic robots inside the roboport
3. Place down an passive provider chest
4. Give the player some items
5. Enter "remote view"
6. Open the "passive provider chest"
7. Request any item that the player has in their inventory from the passive provider chest
8. The robot should have picked up the items that was "requested" from the player if the player was inside the logistic network

/Gerkiz

Didn't you say they where taking equipment?

[Xeukxz]

Thanks for the report however this is working correctly.

Not sure why this is being treated as "not a bug" since having someones personal robots steal their own armor is heavily abusable in multiplayer servers, not only that but the general behaviour of such is quite quirky as well.
When personal robots take armor, they no longer have an owner causing them to just hang around with your armor, repeatedly stealing it unless you disable personal roboports (which you cant even do without having a personal roboport equipped). However, if there is a logistic network available they will join the nearest logistic network, place the equipment in a storage chest (as long as one is available, otherwise its the same behaviour as without a roboport), and only then will fulfill the ghost request.

This wierd behaviour should itself be reason enough to treat it as a bug, but leaving a quirk in the game that has no purpose other than robbing people of their armor and making a huge mess from the loss of inventory slots is a huge oversight and i think its verdict should be reconsidered.

[poisonousbeetle]

lol. very nasty and evil, also discovered recently)
This way someone can steal literally anything not just an armor. But i guess it was made for the sake of consistency. My particular use case that justifies that: sometimes i equip tanks/spidertrones with exos/shields/etc while have something in my inventory and the rest in a network so it is easier to set all requests remotely and drones will decide, where from to take missing items. But yes it added more annoyance. Before it was a decontructed chest near your roboport, now this)

[DeHackEd]

I'm gonna argue this one. Players have an expectation that personal roboport construction robots can only take from their main inventory. A precedent for this is that they can't take items out of your trash slots. Taking items out of your armor slot, or weapons or ammo slots, seems wrong. Those are clearly intended for the player only, just as how trash slots are meant for the local logistic network to be taken away.

Ignoring multiplayer griefing (there are far worse things someone could do), having weapons, ammo and armor be taken away by your own robots is not what I would expect. In a game with combat being a major aspect, robots should not take away the player's chosen combat tools.

[Rseding91]

Personal robots can and will remove from guns, ammo, armor, the main inventory, and the cursor. Personal robots don’t interact with the trash inventory in any way: neither removing from or putting items into it. Items in trash slots don’t count for logistic requests.

So any expectation you may have is simply incorrect.