Bots should be able to refill ammunition boxes using fabricators

[sterile notch]

Simple as it is, you won't have to micromanage ammo in solo as long as you have resources, bots will refill existing empty ammo boxes (craft) when given order

Fuel rods can get same treatment

[hazy crescent]

Its all fun a games, until your bots use up all the resources you want to use, because a bot used one box of coilgun ammo out fo 500

[hazy crescent]

@sterile notch you want to reduce micromanagesment

But you moved it and added more for micro managing resouces

So the bots do not waste it

[exotic radish]

You mean they fired one shot or keep using the same box when you have 500?

Both can be solved by them only refilling empty boxes and only until all shelves are full

[hazy crescent]

But then you got the issue of you about to craft something and a bot comes alone and uses all of those resources

[exotic radish]

How? They’ll only craft after combat

You can keep a stock of emergency materials in a secure cabinet or with ignore orders

Could someone run out of resources with this? Yes but be honest anyone that would would probably still run out when they craft the ammo boxes themselves because they aren’t watching their materials

[hazy crescent]

That adds even more micro management

Instead of remembering to craft more ammo and getting the resources when needbe

Now you got to remember to limit resources and get new ones

Which is more of a job than just crafting it yourself

[exotic radish]

Then don’t issue the craft ammo order if you don’t want it

Or rather it would be part of the load ammo order so npcs using turrets only grab boxes but if you order someone to load it they will also craft

Another way to limit it is barring railguns they only recycle so limit the number of boxes

[hazy crescent]

It just adds more micromanagement

[oak epoch]

I would prefer if you could just get the bots to make any arbitrary item infinitely

Up to a limit of course, like "keep 3 boxes of pulse laser ammo in stock at all times"

[hazy crescent]

However, there is still the micromanagement issue

[oak epoch]

Yes, but automating the process of refilling consumables would be a lot more convenient even if it needs to be supervised by a player

[hazy crescent]

I think auto loading and hulling would be nice

But crafting is done by you

[oak epoch]

Bots can already automatically load ammo and repair hulls, which sometimes is an issue when you have expensive ammo, but overall can be quite convenient when used properly

Overall micromanagement should always be necissary to get the full value out of a system. If the bots can do it perfectly on their own, it makes the game too easy.

[hazy crescent]

No like loading the boxes into the crafter

And hulling them to where they need to go