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As for the rocket capacity mentioned in the item tooltip, which was another blocker for this feature, I decided to keep it referring to the default capacity in utility constants. Changing it to item weight and letting players calculate rocket capacity in their heads might have been better for mods with many custom rocket silos but not so much for Space Age.

Dimava wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2026 11:51 am Now I see diagonal rocket nozzles and can't unsee it

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mergele wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2026 4:28 pm

This also applies to any items manually trashed of course, so your expedition ships don't leave while you're waiting for your construction robots and such.

What does this mean? Afaik my personal construction robots can't do stuff while the character is in orbit, so does this mean all space ship logistics grinds to a halt while I have anything in the trash slots while on surface?

factoriouzr wrote: Sun Jun 07, 2026 1:59 am Great improvements.

However a few more things would really make things a ton better.

1) Please add combinators with multiple if then else conditions that can be controlled explicitly instead of toggling and auto grouping into "and" and "or" conditions the way it is now. Then add value to output if true and a different one if false.
2) allow copy/pasting conditions in combinators
3) allow copy/pasting individual conditions and rules in space platform schedules
4) allow copy/pasting individual conditions and rules in train schedules
5) make space platform schedules work like logistics requests in that you can name a schedule and then share that schedule with different platforms. then when you modify the schedule, all platforms are updated at once
6) make space platform schedule work like train schedules in that they get evaluated when something changes or periodically, not just when the platform decides to depart. If you want a platform to go get fuel for example, it won't if it's stopped at a planet waiting for some reason. It should check it's schedule conditions while waiting and then depart if the condition is met. same as train schedules, I don't understand why you didn't implement space platform conditions like train conditions in this respect. Train conditions are superior.
7) please add channels to radars on the planet as well as in orbit. In the GUI you only show it for the space signal.
8) hopefully this is the case already, but please allow using any signal for radars not just planets, eg IRON, A, B, 1, 2 etc
9) please allow using named strings as signals in combinators, radars etc. Instead of picking signal "A" or "blue" or "iron ore", let us type a name like "fuel" when picking a signal

k-Knight wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2026 12:39 pm Can anyone tell me if this is already available in experimental?

Loewchen wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2026 12:44 pm No, experimental release is expected end of this month.

macdjord wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2026 5:08 am

Dimava wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2026 11:51 am Now I see diagonal rocket nozzles and can't unsee it

06-05-2026, 14-48-12.png

I know, right? It's bugged me for years. I'm honestly surprised more people don't complain about it; there's got to be a lot of overlap between this game's playerbase and KSP, so we should have plenty of people around here who know what a rocket should look like

LegoBrainBiker wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2026 1:38 am lots of good improvements, now the only thing I want is to be able to place multiple landing pads on a single planet

Nemoricus wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2026 5:38 pm

macdjord wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2026 5:08 am

Dimava wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2026 11:51 am Now I see diagonal rocket nozzles and can't unsee it

06-05-2026, 14-48-12.png

I know, right? It's bugged me for years. I'm honestly surprised more people don't complain about it; there's got to be a lot of overlap between this game's playerbase and KSP, so we should have plenty of people around here who know what a rocket should look like

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... launch.jpg

There’s real world precedent.

toths wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2026 2:07 am The platform to platform feature is seriously game changing and TBH, might even be a little over powered. I think there should be some cost to sending packages between platforms, or at least some sort of ship to ship launcher system kinda like how space exploration worked with their cargo guns. Being able to just get close to another platform in orbit and launch like 20 cargo drops between them seems both awesome and OP. Will have to play with it when it arrives.

Fedorrro wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2026 8:21 am My goal is to maintain a buffer of various materials near a Rocket Silo so that incoming platform requests can be fulfilled immediately. If the buffer chests are supplied by belts or trains, this works fine. However, I haven't found a convenient way to do the same using only the logistic network.

wizcreations wrote: Sun Jun 07, 2026 2:22 pm

Kibb99 wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2026 2:47 pm Love all the updates and that the FFF is back! (for now )

Couldn't help but notice that some of the ship designs look an awful lot like FTL ships... For sure noticed the Bulwark and probably the Kestrel too!

Very observant!
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