[Space Age] Allow cargo landing pad to specify a minimum drop size

[Kusibu]

The topic of limiting cargo pod spam is one that has come up a few times before, and I think this would be a neat way to put management of that in the player's hands. Whether the minimum is specified based on number of dropped items or number of fully occupied slots, I wouldn't be sure; there's also the possibility that this limitation could only apply to automated drops prompted by logistic requests (allowing manual orbital drops to always occur unimpeded).

[MeduSalem]

+1

I agree. There should be something like that. Because currently I also get spammed with a drop pod on Nauvis like every 5 seconds from the space science packs & calcite I am dropping. It is getting ridiculous. ^^

[MeinChef]

+1

I haven't seen an impact on UPS yet (1 Space Platform orbiting nauvis), but I fear that with more platforms dropping something from orbit every other second might use resources that could go elsewhere :)

[Barn]

+1

I have one platform making space science and another mass-producing iron plates. With the landing pad set to request 1000 iron plates, the science platform keeps repeatedly sending its entire buffer of 30 plates instead of letting the mining platform (which is holding 20 stacks) do its thing. Being able to set a minimum shipment size would solve this problem too.

[lowsodium]

+1

I would love this. There is already the ability to specify minimum payload from the surface to orbit, the opposite direction would make sense too. The current spamming of drop pods is a little silly.

[Tinyboss]

+1 from me, too. It could be as simple as a single checkbox for the landing pad for "request full stacks only". I think it could get too complicated adding a third number (on top of min and max) to individual logistic requests. But I can't think of a situation where a single full stack wouldn't be reasonable as a minimum.

And it will always be very easy to click over to the platform and shift-click a partial stack down if we want.

It's just jarring when a separate pod (which LOOKS like it required some material to produce) gets launched for every two or three science bottles, 24/7.

[mr_abomination]

+1 I like the idea of just specifying "whole stacks only" as an option

[bauerlaci]

+1 from me as well, the "whole stacks only" is a good idea. What would also be an improvement in my opinion is if the "Unload" option would be controllable via the circuit network, so for example it would only be set to true if the number of space science in the hub reaches a number I specified.

[danbopes]

As kind of a workaround, I found that creating a simple timer, and pulsing the cargo landing pad with a calcite request once every minute helps reduce the # of times cargo pods are dropped down.

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[bauerlaci]

Also kind of a workaround, I created an interrupt with a condition saying for example there should be more than 50 calcite and enabled unloading:

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The current planet is also set as a station with unloading disabled otherwise it wouldn't work.

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[Tinyboss]

Also kind of a workaround, I created an interrupt with a condition saying for example there should be more than 50 calcite and enabled unloading

Question that might be considered a light spoiler:

If you're using advanced oxide asteroid crushing, would that cause you to stop what you're doing and go to Nauvis anytime you accumulate enough calcite?

[True.Boriska]

+1
Got spammed with all kind of things dropping on Nauvis. Each cargo contains 1-5 items. Sounds of opening hatches and thrusters are unbearable.

[Linsanga]

Related (constant pods of one resource can starve other resources) viewtopic.php?f=23&t=117735