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TL;DR

Change the personal roboport toggle to a slider for construction range

What?

Currently for personal roboports there are two modes, completely on, and completely off. I propose that this be modified (or perhaps a right click action) so that instead of an immediate on off, a precise range setting can be set. It cannot go higher than the max range of the combined personal roboports, and can go down to zero, which is the same as off

Why?

This would be helpful for a few reasons, firstly, it is well known that if a robot does not fly far enough it does not need to recharge, by setting your roboports to a smaller range your robots would need to charge less or not at all. Secondly, on aquilo specifically, a much smaller range would be beneficial given that the robots take 5x the power for the same flight.

Simple but very useful. +1 from me. Would go very well with a similar suggestion I’ve seen to give exoskeletons a speed slider instead of a toggle. Though I could only really appreciate them if they also worked on spidertrons. Those are always the main users of equipment in my games.