Really liking the early bot stuff for the kind of game I want to play this playthrough. I would like however to have requester chests. I'm not sure if there is a reasonable way to make them "balanced for early" since the nature of this mod really cranks up the power level regardless. Having this off by default to keep the spirit of the mod would make sense imo.

Should be possible, there is already the option to include the logistics bots for player personal use so this is just shifting the existing "Logistics system" features into red/green science tier as well.

The balance would mostly be that they are not as fast or able to carry as much as end game tech. While is a lot of extra "power level", it is modded and not like a "competitive advantage" :) So would consider it in a similar tier as say the Transport Drones (you don't need roads, but early logistics bots will certainly struggle to move large volumes while the trucks can move a fair bit with minimal setup effort)

Yeah, this would be great please, I personally really enjoy playing with robots and getting an early start is great. The balance would definitely come from the robots not being able to move large volumes, making it a challenge to keep the request chests stocked. If that's too overpowered, maybe introduce a delay when delivering to a basic request chest, or a limit of 10 items in each request slot?

Was playing a little bit. One option was thinking of for logistics bots was to use more power (for construction bots that gets very complex because the player needs to have a useful amount of power in personal armour). Might have as a setting.

Also provides a more compelling reason to get them replaced with the harder to build standard logistics bots once unlocked.

I don't think there is a neat way to limit request size, since I don't control that UI so at best is having a script change it again later I think.

I just added an add on mod, which provides researcheable requester chests. No balancing in mind at all.
And i reused your thumbnail. I hope thats okay for you.
I write this here, because i cant find a way to message you privately. Thanks for your mod.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/basic-robots-requester