[Optimization] Ocula Behaviour

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Which mod are you having an issue with?

[X] pyalienlife
[ ] pyalternativeenergy
[ ] pycoalprocessing
[ ] pyfusionenergy
[ ] pyhightech
[ ] pyindustry
[ ] pypetroleumhandling
[ ] pypostprocessing
[ ] pyrawores

Operating system

=Windows 10

What kind of issue is this?

[ ] Compatibility
[ ] Locale (names, descriptions, unknown keys)
[ ] Graphical
[ ] Crash
[ ] Progression
[ ] Balance
[ ] Pypostprocessing failure
[X] Other

What is the problem?

While the Oculas are a great feature, I have noticed some issues with their behaviour over time.

Oculas can be easily picked up when they deliver stuff to you, especially when you're in Ulricman mode.

Now you've got an Ocula in your inventory. If you just place it back on the map, like you would a bot, it's just going to putter around where you put it down. => If it were possible to mark Oculas (with a delivery at least) as non-pick-upable, it might actually solve all the issues I've had so far.

Oculas are hard to get back into the Ocula network automatically

Expanding from the previous issue, if you just naively put the Oculas into your logistics network and try to insert them back into the Eyepods, any space that is freed up when an Ocula leaves for its task and returns later and finds its slot occupied is going to throw a console notification this time (An Ocula was stranded [gps]), but will still putter around (and wander off over time) all the same as if you'd just dumped it on the map. Adding inserters between the Eyepods just exacerbates the issue as all Eyepods will be filled and it will become almost impossible for an Ocula to return to the Eyepod it left from. => I am going to assume this would involve some major alteration to the pathing logic, with Oculas having to look for free spaces and so on?

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