conveyor system thoughts

[eloy2030]

When I started building conveyors (not knowing how they worked) I thought that it could make a central storage area - off limits for dupes - and have the conveyors ship all the materials to that area. Then I would have storage around the base with different materials - with dupe access - and different capacities. So, ie, have a storage with 2000 kg capacity with iron. If dupes take from it, more will come and reload it.

problem is 1. sweepers work only on priority 2. they provide the belt non-stop, regardless of where there's room for it or not at the other end 3. once items enter the rail there's no controlling where they go.

My suggestions.

1. Make the storage "request" from the sweeper, not the loader.
2. Make the sweepers only load onto the belt what's being requested. so, if i have a chest with 4375 kg of room left for sand, sweepers would only load 4375 kg of sand onto the belt.
3. Make sweeper pull from a storage if the contents are higher than the max weight, like dupes do.
4. To be able to mark storage for dupe-only, sweeper-only and both.
5. Use "smart" storage to handle this options. (this way they more use)
6. Redefine loader filters to "whitelist" and "blacklist".