Okay, maybe I'm not understanding the Wube intent on what Spidertron is supposed to be, but this seems like a huge gap in the current functionality. Being autonomous, with radar and potentially roboports, Spidertron is proxy of the player. Almost a second character in itself, with all the same functions - building, maintenance, combat and exploration. Its inventory needs to be refilled regularly - spent missiles, repair packs, materials for whatever it builds or the trash it deconstructed, repair bots lost in a fight... But as it stands only the player can do it and he has to do it manually - unlike the tank and the car, Spidertron doesn't even interact with inserters (If it did, it would be impossible to walk over a factory).
But if it just had a logistics tab, similar to the player, maybe even with just a few slots, its effective range of operations would become huge and it would become actually independent of the player. Wouldn't that be awesome?
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