[Simple] Rocket silo destinations for space platforms

[The_Mormegil]

When a rocket silo is built on a platform, the possible destinations for a rocket should be the platforms orbiting the same space location.

There are lots of additional modding options and possible functionalities that could be implemented with silos and platforms but I think this is both straightforward and uncontroversial. There is simply no other reasonable choice for space platform rocket silos: the current functionality makes no sense and neither case impacts vanilla at all. If you want to add a more robust rocket destination interface that's cool, but I think this should still be the default behavior for modded rocket silos on space platforms.

[IsaacOscar]

When a rocket silo is built on a platform, the possible destinations for a rocket should be the platforms orbiting the same space location.

There are lots of additional modding options and possible functionalities that could be implemented with silos and platforms but I think this is both straightforward and uncontroversial. There is simply no other reasonable choice for space platform rocket silos: the current functionality makes no sense and neither case impacts vanilla at all. If you want to add a more robust rocket destination interface that's cool, but I think this should still be the default behavior for modded rocket silos on space platforms.

I'm curious, what happens if you currently build a rocket silo on a space platform?

[IsaacOscar]

It'd probably also be a good idea to allow specifying the destinations at runtime in Lua.

[The_Mormegil]

When a rocket silo is built on a platform, the possible destinations for a rocket should be the platforms orbiting the same space location.

There are lots of additional modding options and possible functionalities that could be implemented with silos and platforms but I think this is both straightforward and uncontroversial. There is simply no other reasonable choice for space platform rocket silos: the current functionality makes no sense and neither case impacts vanilla at all. If you want to add a more robust rocket destination interface that's cool, but I think this should still be the default behavior for modded rocket silos on space platforms.

I'm curious, what happens if you currently build a rocket silo on a space platform?

No platforms orbiting overhead. Which... True?

I haven't tried launching a new platform from a platform. I wonder what would happen.

[IsaacOscar]

Sadly nothing happens:

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You can open the gui to create a new platform, but the silo never launches.