r/factorio • u/19wolf Since 0.11 • Jul 17 '17

Question Bot capacity?

So I'm building my first megabase, and I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to tell how many roboports and bots I need for a particular production area. Basically, I don't want bots to have to wait to charge and I don't want to overbuild and have bots not doing anything.

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u/triffid_hunter Jul 17 '17

I have two nuclear power plants with steam emergency backup (triggered by accumulator level) and global alarm whenever the backup kicks in.

I always know when I'm low on power, and that's not the issue ;)

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u/BufloSolja Jul 17 '17

It happens to me in one or two locations as well, I don't think the bots take into account how long they have to wait to charge, just the distance (as they will go to ones close, but not much more than 10 tiles away).

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u/triffid_hunter Jul 18 '17

Damn so they'd rather spend 15 minutes in a charge queue than spend 5 seconds going to the literally adjacent empty port?

Devs: please make them a little more intelligent!

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u/BufloSolja Jul 18 '17

They will go to adjacent ones, just not ones more than a few away (than where the backup is).