Welcome, you amazing community of The Amazing Game, especially you Wube Software lads!
So I haven't been following the amazing game for a year or so; only downloading latest update every few months but not the forum, so some suggestions are already or to some extent implemented, at least in some mod.
TL;DR
Anti Bot Spamming Thing Mechanic (items spoil while being carried by bots if longer than a minute or so)note: this was thought of before Space Age platforms, where this is somewhat implemented
note: also, I have no idea with spoilage means, so maybe this didn't age well (pun kinda intended)
What?
so let's pretend we hate bots, and want to encourage belts and trains logistics insteadso let's punish that approach by giving items a spoiling time if in claws of bots, but not belts, inserters, chests or machines.
What happens after it gets spoiled? Make machines require a 100% of a components so spoiled items are practically half their healthy counterparts? Didn't think this much but I think it has potential
can make worse by limiting time on belt as well (more circuit wizardry is going to be needed to limit input unless it's going to be processed in reasonable time)