Drones Hitbox and CargoTime

Antilope · Post by **Antilope** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:43 am

TL;DR

Giving a hitbox to robots (bots will not move through themselves) and a load/unload time will increase the challenge of the game and make the robot logistic system less OP. (better think twice where change from belts to bots)

What ?

HITBOX: the drones will not just move to chest, load, and run to destination, they have to pay attention to other bots and not collide with other flying objects (so no more 200 drones all packed together in 1 tile). This will create a sort of "2lanes flying highway" between chests.
CARGOTIME: with a load/unload time, move tons of items will need more infrastructure planning: more passive chest and more requester in the same locations, and then inserters or belts to merge everything together

Why ?

A real behavior for drones will bring more challenge in Factorio. Do you have 10000 logistic drones? Nice! I hope you have the SPACE for let them fly. It could also bring new buildings for robots (bigger roboports / charging stations / travel beacons (or something like signals for trains) )

bobucles · Post by **bobucles** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 11:25 am

This discussion has been done before.

What will ACTUALLY happen is UPS gets destroyed. Ten thousand collision checks per tick will do that.

Antilope · Post by **Antilope** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 12:09 pm

bobucles wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2019 11:25 am This discussion has been done before.

What will ACTUALLY happen is UPS gets destroyed. Ten thousand collision checks per tick will do that.

Understood. And what about load/unload time?

Post by **Koub** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 12:59 pm

Antilope wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2019 12:09 pm Understood. And what about load/unload time?

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