If space platforms had to travel to a specific cargo landing pad, like a different orbit on the planet, it would solve most of the problems I think the devs were trying to avoid.

Awesome, thanks. Makes sense, of course the buffer charges faster than the base use, and I knew other things like lasers had buffers like this (I've seen their usage spike up when reconnected), I just didn't think that other things had buffers.

Much appreciated!

Was testing nuclear on a test/freeplay world I set up for this sort of thing. I needed power draw to test the turbines so I set up beacon arrays like such:
https://i.imgur.com/RSU3ROm.png

I found that if I had more draw than I could produce, the satisfaction "maximum requirement" shot up ...