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We have trains, we have flying logistic bots, we have belts, but no trucks?

I know there is a mod for this by the name of AAI Automated Vehicles, but that system is too complex for the vast majority of people. So I'd like to suggest adding in trucks for carrying things, and having their automation work off of a waypoint system like you see in Red Alert 2.

In addition, if you added tank automation in with this you would have a system for auto biter clearing of a set area, removing an aspect of excessive combat in late game when you are essentially all but invulnerable. You could even consider throwing in a biter like AI system so that if set tanks will target biter nests if they're set up to do so.

I thought of this because right now, except in the very early game all that tanks are really good for are clearing trees. They can't even launch nukes, and their armor is weak. But if you have a full out battalion of 20 or so tanks going at it and gunning stuff down they suddenly have a use for automated biter removal.

All in all this would add to the game greatly because it would add another aspect of automation to a game dedicated to it

I like the idea of waypoints for player/car/tank movement. Automate your movement to a location so you, the gamer, can do something else (like scribble new designs on your notepad).

RTSes would use Ctrl-click or Shift-click to set movement waypoints, but maybe Factorio's WASD makes that impractical.