TL;DR
One icon to combine all 4 inner planets (Nauvis, Vulcanus, Fulgora, Gleba) to use when naming ships (or any other entities you wish)


What?
When setting up ship logistics, lots of players use icons to name their ships. This helps them easily use image cues to quickly determine what each ...

... would had to be balanced due to this. Someone forgot that this change would lead to balancing asterodis casue some people use steam power to fuel ships in space

Just to make this explicit....

The thread has given explicit examples of real world use cases that relied on the boiler/heat exchanger ...

... any change cause someone has problem that it is already solvable by already existing things and this blaancing would change other things that would had to be balanced due to this. Someone forgot that this change would lead to balancing asterodis casue some people use steam power to fuel ships in space

I'm a teacher in Logistics and I talked about this with my colleagues (introducing ships into Factorio). But I argued that mechanically, it would be very similar to trains. In your opinion, how would ships differ from trains logistically?


Cargo ships could be much slower than trains, but able to ...

So I am currently building space ships, and there is of course the approach of crunching numbers and calculating everything.
However it got me thinking after improving some non-obvious details (How much does removing mass improve the ships performance?) that we'd want to actually see the numbers.

So ...

I think that with the hubs limitations, and the fact that most designs use belts in one way or the other, belts could be seen as paths, no?

There’s a reason they’re called space “platforms” and not space “ships”. They’re not really meant to be anything like traditional scifi spaceships, but rather factories with thrusters. They don’t even have a traditional hull, unless you place some stone walls and pretend they are one.


it's a game ...

There’s a reason they’re called space “platforms” and not space “ships”. They’re not really meant to be anything like traditional scifi spaceships, but rather factories with thrusters. They don’t even have a traditional hull, unless you place some stone walls and pretend they are one.

TL;DR
Your idea in one sentence. Pictures are more worth than words.

I think Ships would look better if they had more empty space, paths rooms in them.

What?
What do you want to suggest

Introduce breakage and maintenance through some sort of repair robots that would require you to leave empty ...

Ships "designed" to get damaged and continually repair themselves is similar to a defense wall on a planet which is continually supplied by repair packs. Seems like they'd both satisfy this desire to disable their damage warning, or neither.

Since the warning becomes kind of pointless in both cases ...

Some spaceships get minor damage and that is totally acceptable. The ship is planned to repair such minimal damage.

The problem is, damage alerts get mixed with planet damage alerts from biters/etc, which are utterly important. No one has patience to constantly check the damage in this case, since 99 ...

... imho, this use case would be very minor.

- You could export stuff to orbit and then import somewhere else on same planet
Aside from the fact that ships don't drop stuff that they are also requesting, you could just use a train to do same in more efficient and probably faster manner.

- It is ...

... for construction materials.].

Why?
Ship building is a pain in the ass, there is far too much clicking and mouse movement required for building ships from Blueprints.

This is especially true for adding quality parts, like I might have 3 epic crushers, but no, the game wants me to send up 10 when ...

... an interrupt to send when it’s requested, or you need to centralize them and launch to space a second time. If instead you could transfer between ships then you could have say a Vulcans and gleba dedicated ship which has requests for the other, but both only travel to Nauvis and could serve as a ...

... washing.


Promethium science packs used to spoil, it's unlikely it comes back, nor on the chunks themselves imo.



Fast, immediate-to-science ships are already more efficient than belt storage ships for 10k+ SPM. At this scale (5000+ tons), ship weight becomes the limiting factor of speed. Belt ...

... while being about 6x as effective as not using it. Giving them spoil time would make vastly different builds more interesting, as more aspects of ships would matter instead of only size and belt density now, such as platform speed (both short term burst speed to arrive at high density promethium ...

... quite have a full understanding of space platform mechanics, because at the time Space Age had only released recently. I made it with the idea that ships could be increasingly made faster by making them smaller, aka more space efficient, aka higher quality and more cleverly designed. However, this is ...

... while being about 6x as effective as not using it. Giving them spoil time would make vastly different builds more interesting, as more aspects of ships would matter instead of only size and belt density now, such as platform speed (both short term burst speed to arrive at high density promethium ...

... while being about 6x as effective as not using it. Giving them spoil time would make vastly different builds more interesting, as more aspects of ships would matter instead of only size and belt density now, such as platform speed (both short term burst speed to arrive at high density promethium ...

... collect the prometium.
Or you can combine the 2 solutions.

Though really it hardly mathers in a single player game. If people like to make huge ships and beltweave so they can store a little prometium on it sure. Its inefficient to do it that way. But since resoures are infinite you can make ...