Some of my observations about space platforms: The core mechanics around space platforms are power generation, storage, and fuel efficiency. POWER: There are three viable power generation options: Solar - With enough panels, you can use solar for all planet destinations, including Aquilo (60% power ...

I think most of this is actually a good change, but the PAB is not needed, just have a dropdown in the rocket silo itself to select a platform to auto service. Then it always knows which platform to send requests to, and can read signals from only that platform. The part with handling rocket part in...

I have been thinking about this design, and the more I think about it and use it, the more the usage of number of engines and per engine flow rate seems unintuitive. In reality, I will generally know my total fuel production rate, and want my engines to consume exactly that much fuel per second, reg...

Is there a way to make a different kind of building that just teleports the player into the space platform with their inventory intact? that might be one way to do it if thats possible... but it would suck to not see the cool rocket launch animation and transition

I would also like to be able to do this. Another simple example is the asteroid collector. Right now you can't set filters based on the contents of the collector... because reading contents AND setting filters doesn't work. If I could read the contents on red wire, output only contents below a thres...

oh my, for some reason my brain just thought the simple recipe was only craftable on vulcanus, that does solve the problem of oil production in space, thanks

I want to add a combinator that can emit useful signals about the space platform it is on. One of them is the current progress towards your destination along the route the platform is on. I am hoping this will be useful in sending signals to stop the ship along the way to harvest promethium asteroid...

Currently, there is a limitation on how you can generate steam in space. As fusion generators don't make heat, and instead use plasma, nuclear power is the only option for generating steam. This limits space platforms that want to use steam for purposes other than power generation, namely the coal s...

Question: How does the spoilage priority on inserters work? Does it select items with short time remaining / long time remaining on the freshness? is it just a preference for grabbing the spoilage item if multiple item types are available? How does it work?

I to, wonder why it is only available on Vulcanus. It seems the devs made an intentional choice to make power not a self sustaining resource on space platforms on aquilo or further out. The only options are solar for the inner system, and fission/fusion reactors in late game, which demand you supply...

I am concerned about spoilage times restricting how you design your factory. Someone else said people will copy paste an optimized blueprint that minimizes time and I agree with that sentiment. The primary time component in a factory is transport time, which is largely transport length. This means t...