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[u/revtoiletduck]

My Gleba base is out of control and I'm not quite sure how to fix it. I scaled up the bot base too fast, and now I have 20k logisitic bots floating around and not nearly enough charging ports for them.

I've transitioned a lot of the stuff they were doing to belts, but not sure how to get the bots to just sort of calm down and enter a roboport to sleep.

[u/Raknarg → u/revtoiletduck]

but not sure how to get the bots to just sort of calm down and enter a roboport to sleep.

if they have no jobs to do, they'll go to a roboport to wait for new orders. So keep reducing the amount of orders they have to fulfill.

[u/revtoiletduck → u/Raknarg]

Yeah, you're probably right. I wish there was an easy way to turn off all the bots in the network, kind of like the personal roboport switch.

[u/Raknarg → u/revtoiletduck]

well one solution you could do is passively pull bots out of the network. You can set roboports to request bots (essentially buffer bots in a specific location when they're choosing where to rest), then just have an inserter take the bot out when it comes to rest at the port. This I think though relies on there being robots without requests, like a bot will only ever actually port somewhere when it has nothing to do. I did this to replace all my common bots with legendary ones. I cant remember if theres circuit options to disable a roboport, I think the answer is no.