Worker Robot speed 1 / cargo size 1 unlock without actual robot technology

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hgschmie
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Worker Robot speed 1 / cargo size 1 unlock without actual robot technology

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The current technology tree for Worker Robot speed looks like this:

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which allows it to be unlocked before either construction-robot or logistics-robots are researched (which makes little sense).
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Re: Worker Robot speed 1 / cargo size 1 unlock without actual robot technology

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I think this is intentional, as there is no way to have an "or" prerequisite, i.e. the only solutions are to make it require logistic bots, construction bots, or both.

But it's useful if you only have construction bots, or only have logistic bots.
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Re: Worker Robot speed 1 / cargo size 1 unlock without actual robot technology

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I am not considering this to be a bug. Given there is no technology dependency type that would allow to research a technology if any prerequisite was researched, there are no nice solutions for this that would not involve forcing players to always research construction and logistic robots, even when player intentionally would not want to research one of them.
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