Is Rocket Silo showing misleading information

[manuco]

Hello everyone !

The setup UI of the Rocket Silo shows us on the right the Space Platform Logistic requests. This panel shows us many places where icon of currently serving requests are showed.

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On this screenshot, only one request is served. Other requests are served by other silos even if stack and request sizes have been set to the minimum size.

Is there any way to show there more than one request ? (and for the rocket to export multiple differents items?)

On this example, I was requesting one stack of stone and one stack of tungsten plate. The two can fit in one rocket (stack size and weight). But the game still use two rockets (which are mostly empty) to process the request.

What am I missing ?

[fryyyy]

As far as I know, mixing items is beyond the automatic request feature. You might be able to do this with circuits, reading what is being requested, requesting the orbital requests to a requester chest next to silo, and loading the silo with an inserter using read silo contents to not over-fill a particular item.

You might not be able to automatically launch the rocket, however. There doesn't appear to be a way to launch a rocket with a circuit signal. I know there is a feature that will auto-launch a rocket if its full of a requested item type while the silo is NOT on "Automatic Requests," but I don't think that will work with partially filled rockets or rockets with mixed contents, even if all of them are being requested.

The best "solution" is probably to just eat the cost of launching partially filled rockets or sending a full rocket load of any requested item.

[manuco]

The best "solution" is probably to just eat the cost of launching partially filled rockets or sending a full rocket load of any requested item.

You're not thinking! It would produce a lot of pollution and waste.