I want to supply BABs with drones from a shared belt. It seems like it should be simple using filters but my attempts keep failing.
I thought I would be clever and recycle the Dark Fog drops in my BABs into prototype drones in a small factory right next to the BABs, that I would then feed back into the BABs on a shared belt, with sorters loading the drones into the BABs.
Since the amount of drops I'm getting early game are still pretty low, what I wanted to do was restrict each BAB to a single slot full of drones so that when one BAB got full, newly minted drones would flow into the next BAB, and then so on. I designated one input slot to drones with a filter on each BAB and then let the belt run.
What actually happens is the first BAB sucks up all the drones until its slot is full, then further drones get put into its regular inventory. I tried setting all the blue slots in the BAB except for the one drone slot to another item that will never show up (jammer capsules) but this failed the same way.
I feel like there must be an easy solution here that I'm missing somehow. Is there a way to do this?
For what it's worth, I do have a solution to the problem right now but it's really clumsy: I use a series of splitters on the belt to feed the drones since the splitters "remember" which path the previous drone took, and so the splitter sends the drones equally to every base.