... launches]
OR [120s elapsed time]
The inactivity timer gives time for the widgets to be assigned to silos. The pending-launches check ensures the ships doesn't leave before they launch, even if it takes more than 5s for the bots to deliver all the widgets. And the elapsed time creates an escape ...

... earlier and i ignored it because it is example specific and not generalizable. If i construct a different scenario; let's say a freigher that ships items from vulcanus to fulgora with a stop at nauvis to unload excess items of that type if nauvis requests it, but keeping a minimum request for ...

Thanks tottoko, what you point out didn't even cross my mind. Ships with trash in their slots cannot leave orbit.
I think that is an acceptable downside of using the mechanic. Just like with the Robot-Network you would need to make sure there is enough inventory available.
And then again, a player ...

... earlier and i ignored it because it is example specific and not generalizable. If i construct a different scenario; let's say a freigher that ships items from vulcanus to fulgora with a stop at nauvis to unload excess items of that type if nauvis requests it, but keeping a minimum request for ...

Thanks tottoko, what you point out didn't even cross my mind. Ships with trash in their slots cannot leave orbit.
I think that is an acceptable downside of using the mechanic. Just like with the Robot-Network you would need to make sure there is enough inventory available.
And then again, a player ...

... them AND you need a handshake protocal to get the new ship into your signal cycle. This is slow and unreliable, i.e. what happens if by chance 2 ships arrive at the same orbit at the same tick, breaking the handshake? etc.

Alternatively you would need 2 radars for each connection so that every ...

... plattforms though.
If i have a stationary plattform orbiting Nauvis, i want to import items arriving from different planets with their own freight ships. So i set a request group in the nauvis plattform hub, requesting all those items (import from station).
Now i want to have a new ship, which is ...

TLDR:
remove default planet when requesting buildings by adding a request section with a blueprint in hand, so ships can easily be built in orbits other than nauvis.
(images below might be all you need to see.)



what:
in space hub when "add section" is clicked with a blueprint in hand, all building ...

... increase the ouput buffer of captive spawner, it would just appears to me as easier to achieve 100% uptime, it would give me "more time" for my ships to travel without my spawner clogging.

You may see it as a "reason" to make legendary spawner, because they would allow the user more flexibility ...

... ship to sit at the edge of the solar system for 20-25 minutes not collecting asteroids? And you want to throw in synchronizing the schedules of 5 ships on top of that? I take advantage of my time it by not having any downtime in my egg processing. You have downtime by having a second ship carry the ...

... of your eggs "at once"; you need to get them "in 25 minutes", because that's how long you said it took to consume your promethium: "My Promethium ships consumes 2.16 million eggs in 25 minutes." It doesn't matter if if you get those eggs in one titanic rocket launch or multiple serieses of launches ...

... if you could extract modulus max as a variable for dividing into thirds instead of manually setting it each time so you can adjust more efficiently. I did modulus 25,200 to set the clock to a day on Nauvis, which is 7 minutes. Then set the three ships to a circuit of T<8,4000, 8400<=T<=16800, T>16800

... to depart a planet during the first 1/3 of a "day tick" in space, which we define. Ship 2 uses next 1/3, and ship 3 uses final 1/3. Now, the three ships are leaving planets back and forth in thirds based on a universal timer and resources are delivered to the planet in a more continuous fashion.

... even more relevant, since you can easily send a signal to hold the eggs until the promethium ship is ready to receive them at Nauvis.
My Promethium ships consumes 2.16 million eggs in 25 minutes. I want to launch that all at once, instead of waiting for it to trickle in. So I need 21.6k spawners ...

... to import construction requests from?

I'd love to keep a stock of belts/inserters/whatever on a stationary ship above a surface, and let visiting ships request one or two from it when they stop in (to replace something that was damaged, or to build out a little change I made or whatever). Being ...

Oh you mean set a request for 0 QPs on the promethium ship but from nauvis?

So for example, 800QPs from Aquilo and 0 QPs from Nauvis?

... What?
I want to be able to reduce the size of the range of turrets, maybe with a shortcut + scrollwheel.


Why?
Right now when designing ships, i have to put turrets in odd places to have them not shoot too early, or things i don't want shot, wasting ammo. Which can be deadly in space. I'd ...

There is a hacky way to do it. A platform will not drop an item to a planet if it is also requesting that item from the planet. Even if the request is 0.

So, you can make a zero item request for QPs from Nauvis. It's not an ideal solution at all, but it does work.

I'm running into a problem when i have 2 ships carrying quantum processors (QPs).

Ship 1 is a round trip ship, it goes to all planets and delivers items.

Ship 2 is my promethium ship. It collects promethium, goes to aquilo for QPs, and then goes to Nauvis, requests eggs, crafts the science in orbit ...

... to receive fusion fuel cells transported from Aquilo and distribute them to other platforms and Nauvis.

The advantage of this design is that ships that need fusion fuel cells and do not pass through Aquilo can refuel at Nauvis, without requiring Nauvis to launch fuel to the ships by rockets ...