I was quite shocked to find out that there's no way to request a certain number of items.

Don't get me wrong, the "+,++,+++" system works great, but sometimes I don't want to click the +++ button 90 times to get my very large process completed.

Simply add a button that allows you to type how many items you want to request.

(Unrelated, but this is why I had to process all 3 million of my cobblestone. I just didn't have the patience to press the +++ button over 9000 times so I just (against better judgement) did Control+A instead)

You know that you can use the scrool wheel of the mouse to switch pages as well as change the amount? Just hold down shift.

Thanks for the tip, but that still doesn't address the core issue at hand.

If I want to request a large amount of items anywhere between 9000 and 9000 million, using the existing system is a complete pain. I either have to click +++ until my hand falls off, or do Control+A and request every avalible resource of that type.

There's no in-between and AFAIK no way to just tell it that I want 9001 of something.

Also the current system is not very precise. You can accidentally miscount clicks and if you want 6 stuff that contains a crafting item made from 4 diamond per each (as I know +/++/+++ buttons can handle automatic craftings too), and you accidentally request 7 or 8... then you wasted 4-8 diamond. Entering a number can make it more precise and less error-prone.

I wouldn't try requesting 9000 million items. Anything over ~2.14 billion (2^31) will cause problems :)
See https://github.com/RS485/LogisticsPipes/blob/mc17/common/logisticspipes/utils/item/ItemIdentifierStack.java#L25

Numerical requests themselves sound fine though. I don't understand @hron84's problems though, because with requesting you see the number of requested items, before you click "Request", anyway?

Oh, I misunderstood the problem, I thought this ticket is about Logistics Request Table because there is no feedback about number of requested items.

Ah, you mean when you craft an item and click on the request button there? Yeah, I see.