When using buffers, I often find there's contention on filling it because the nearby requesters will send out there 1-2 drones if the buffer sags. This gets into a vicious cycle where the buffer cannot take over again unless the supply rises to some threshold above the demand.
There are other cases where its requester v. requester and the one I don't want ends up getting most of the loot.
If it could be controlled by the number of drones in the buffers/requesters, that would go a long way to fixing these sorts of problems.