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

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

SHiRKiT wrote: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)

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?