[0.11.16] Construction Bot Strategy

[DaveMcW]

When you construct a ghost building, the logistics system does the following:

1. Choose the construction bot closest to the ghost.
2. Choose the storage chest containing the building, closest to the ghost.

This strategy is not optimal if the ghost and storage chest are far apart.
Instead it should be:

1. Choose the storage chest containing the building, closest to the ghost.
2. Choose the construction bot closest to the storage chest.

The current strategy works fine for deconstruction, it does not need to be changed there.

[bobingabout]

I agree, this is quite odd, and annoying, and should be changed.

[kovarex]

Yes, this was bugging me as well, and it is more of a feature for better strategy request that really a bug.
But as the change was quite simple, I put it into the 0.11.17

[GlassDeviant]

Actually I find that deconstruction does not work very well.

I have, time and time again, seen construction bots remove an item from the map and then, instead of going to the nearest storage chest (placed specifically for the purpose of taking the items I am presently deconstructing, no less), hare off to the only other group of storage boxes in the accesible region (the orange area around the roboports, I forget what it's called)...on the other side of the map 300+ tiles away.

I have to, for example, remove a roboport to cut off access to the rest of the map, then remove all storage boxes except the ones in the area I am working on, to keep the little buggers from roaming all over the bloody map to find places to store stuff and use the ones I want them to instead.

[ssilk]

The bots try to fill the storage chests first, which have already an item of that type inside.

But yes, this is an issue, cause it limits the usable construction area dramatically and there are not really good workarounds. I would like to have a storage bot, which automatically comes, when there is a need for him. More or less like a harvester: when full returns home. And also into the other direction: when placing a blueprint, you can order a storage bot to bring the items, and it will be filled by the bots first and travel to the site and then the blueprint is placed.

[GlassDeviant]

I guessed that, so I put items of the same type (all 3 electric poles, lights, laser turrets, stone walls and wood so I can clear forests quickly) in my near storage chests, but they still went to store everything in my far storage chests. Eventually I just stopped leaving chests lying around, but that means my bots can only repair damaged items, they can't replace destroyed items.

I has a sad.