Allow reading unsatisfied construction requests from roboport

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rbtcollins
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Allow reading unsatisfied construction requests from roboport

Post by rbtcollins »

Allow the circuit network to see what buildings are planned but missing materials
I'm thinking just an additional radio choice here:

"Read construction network requests" with help text "Reads the unsatisfied requests from the construction network of this roboport and sends them to the circuit network".

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Today to do just-in-time malls we can set the recipe on an assembler, and build a nice machine to ensure that there are at least some N of each building type available to build, but this is wasteful! Buildings like spaceports and nuclear generators are quite resource heavy, and if none are planned, why even keep them in inventory?
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Re: Allow reading unsatisfied construction requests from roboport

Post by Rseding91 »

There is no way to implement this that won't be terrible for performance, or simply incorrect in what it outputs - likely both.
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