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TL;DR

Personal roboports should add a bonus radar coverage to vehicles.

What?

- Personal robot MK1 should add a bonus of 1 square of visibility or 0.5 each, rounded to nearest int to vehicles;
- Personal robot MK2 should add a bonus of 2 squares of radar visibility, or 0.75 squares each rounded to nearest int to vehicles.

Why?

- This would allow tanks to have visibility, and thus make them more useful. I honestly thought they already provided 1 square of visibility when I was first building out tanks to remote around Nauvis
- It would also help with building oversized blueprints from spidertrons, or even personal inventory, in the map view

qzjul wrote: Mon Aug 25, 2025 7:47 pmIt would also help with building oversized blueprints from spidertrons

Spidertrons are the only vehicle type which does include radar coverage in the Vanilla game - this is even alluded to in their Crafting recipe.

Radar Equipment is available, for Tanks and Cars.

Good Luck!