Control the amount robots

[hauk70]

ENG

In the process of repair walls or  turrets robots can be destroyed. I wanted to run automatically robots (in the chest request asks building robots and shifted in roboport) but the limit on the number of robots is already involved, I can not be established. It would be nice to add this feature.

RU

В процессе ремонта стен или турелей ремонтные роботы могут быть уничтожены. Я захотел автоматически запускать роботов(в сундук запроса запрашиваются строительные роботы и ложатся в робопорт) но ограничение на количество уже задействованных роботов я установить не могу. Было бы прекрасно добавить эту возможность.

[ssilk]

I'm not clearly understanding, what kind of limit you want to set.

[SHiRKiT]

He wants to be able to restock the lost robots due to destruction.

Imagine you have an enemy attack incoming. The robots go out there and fix the walls. You had 100 construction robots in the network. The robots go and repair the wall, but 4 robots were destroyed. Now you have 96 robots in the network. He wants to be able to automatically inject 4 more robots in the network, but only 4.

I think this can be achieved with the new Combinators system. Read here https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... 38&t=12590 and here https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-88

[ratchetfreak]

He wants to be able to restock the lost robots due to destruction.

Imagine you have an enemy attack incoming. The robots go out there and fix the walls. You had 100 construction robots in the network. The robots go and repair the wall, but 4 robots were destroyed. Now you have 96 robots in the network. He wants to be able to automatically inject 4 more robots in the network, but only 4.

I think this can be achieved with the new Combinators system. Read here https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... 38&t=12590 and here https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-88

If and only if you can detect the number of robots of each kind deployed in the network

With just that you could do it without combinators (just a wire to the smart inserter inserting them into the roboport)

[ssilk]

Ah, now I understand. Well I think this number of robots per network should be available within the network inserters. They also wanted to make the roboports enable to "outsert" robots from the network.

See suggestions:
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... php?t=8698 Remove from roboports
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=6&t=8925 Distribution of robots
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... ber#p78421 Controlling robot distribution

Related:
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =67&t=8905 Overlapping Logistic Network II
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=6&t=6757 Interface and mechanics suggestions for robot networks


I think these three suggestions conclude all needed stuff?