Make "Unload" option on ships have more options

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Make "Unload" option on ships have more options

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I'm running into a problem when i have 2 ships carrying quantum processors (QPs).

Ship 1 is a round trip ship, it goes to all planets and delivers items.

Ship 2 is my promethium ship. It collects promethium, goes to aquilo for QPs, and then goes to Nauvis, requests eggs, crafts the science in orbit, and drops the science packs.

Ship 1 collects QPs from Aquilo which i then request on nauvis.

Ship 2 collects QPs on Aquilo, BUT, when it comes to Nauvis, it dumps the QPs due to the request. I don't want it to drop it from the Promethium ship.

If i uncheck the "Unload" button for Nauvis (on Ship 2), then i can't drop the science it makes, so a setting - or condition - for what the platform CANNOT unload would be very helpful.

Or, if we were able to set conditions for the request, such as "only request from platform (name)"
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Re: Make "Unload" option on ships have more options

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There is a hacky way to do it. A platform will not drop an item to a planet if it is also requesting that item from the planet. Even if the request is 0.

So, you can make a zero item request for QPs from Nauvis. It's not an ideal solution at all, but it does work.
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Re: Make "Unload" option on ships have more options

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Oh you mean set a request for 0 QPs on the promethium ship but from nauvis?

So for example, 800QPs from Aquilo and 0 QPs from Nauvis?
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