it would be nice to have a way to reserve some drones for only building, repairing or logistics, either with a configurator, or as an ui.
if there's an ui for the drones, it would also be nice to see what they are doing/what's in their queue.
#add a way to configure drone tasks
proud pond
timber stag
Exactly what i was thinking about right now, however I got one thing to ad to the suggestion: I would love to have the option to priorities certain ares to clean up for the robots. As of now they clean the floor that is closest to their current location?, what i imagine is the ability to have a brush tool or something else to say: Could you please clean up the floor around the ore-deposit first. It would especially be very helpful if an ore-deposit is faar away and you have to dig up lots off stone untill you get there.
proud pond
oh yeah having a way to make the drones clean up the floor and put it in storage would be nice, like a sweep button or something that selects an area, and makes drones pick up stuff and put it in storage.
stone burrow
I don't think 'reserving' is the right way, instead game should correctly prioritize construction and repairs (like power poles having highest priority)
spiral niche
The bulk drones (post demo) are supposed to be better for cleaning the floor.
stone burrow
Ideally we should be able to control those priorities like In settlers 2, what resources are more prioritized by logistics and what facility should get that resource first...
spiral niche
And building priority seems to be 1st selected build has priority. Having said that the tendency right now for buildings of the same type and same priority is: grab material type one, drop off at all building sites, grab material 2, drop off at all building sites, etc.
proud pond
I don't think 'reserving' is the right way, instead game should correctly priori...
tbh I think auto stuff is often more of a pain, I'd rather have a construction drone idle than any sort of smart function that will end up being a pain at one point or another.
though yeah having a good enough and having a "send n drones to build/repair this NOW*" button would probably be enough
* basically drop item in inventory, clear queue and add that regardless of priority
(caveat for charging obviously)