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What I am suggesting is a Queue system for construction/logistic bots, to optimize flight time.

To get a better idea of what I'm saying, say you have 10 bots, building a 10 objects. If there are 6 bots 10 seconds away from the target location, and 4 bots 60 seconds away, all 10 will be assigned at one time. This is an issue, because then for 50 seconds there are 6 idle bots while nothing is being built.

I'm recommending a feature that would calculate the travel time, and realize that 6 bots could construct 10 machines faster than 10 bots, and only assign the nearby 6 bots, so the other 4 could do their own thing, or just not waste power.

It's not a huge problem, but I figured it would be a pretty simple change (if anything in coding ever is simple).

Sorry if it's too long, but I did my best :D

- Factorio Player of over 200 hours.

This is a very old subject, you should have a look at this topic of suggestions about robots, and logistic network :
viewtopic.php?f=80&t=18093

Also a recent discussion on the exact same topic as your post (but originally aiming the personal robots) :
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=49429

Oh, I apologize. I had searched under suggestions and hadn't seen it, so I figured it hadn't already been brought up. Sorry for wasting your time then.

No offense, it's OK, there are literally TONS of posts, sometimes, you're not lucky with the research, but at least you've tried .