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+1

Cargo landing pads and requester chests have this feature and it's odd that space platforms don't

In my case it I wanted to set requests for my promethium ship to request biter eggs only when all the promethium science packs on the ship are sent down.

Because this is not possible I had to do a work around on Nauvis to block all my rocket silos from sending biter eggs if there are enough promethium packs on the planet. But this is less intuitive and an inferior solution

Being able to set requests via circuit conditions would be very cool, but what about a different paradigm? You can set the schedule to tell the platform to unload to a planet or not. What if you could have a setting in the schedule to tell the platform whether or not it could request from the planet? Then for example you could request a load of biter eggs, move to the next stop in the schedule which does not allow requests, the next stop to pick up eggs and then depart for the shattered planet? Lots of new ways to shoot yourself in the foot oops I forgot to allow loading uranium fuel cells at Nauvis...

so i can do this with the cargo landing pad using an arithmetic combinator output to the pad a constant combinator tied to the output of the arithmetic. which thats what sets the numbered value of the request. and the input of the arithmetic is tied to a roboport to scan the inventory. and by doing this the request are handled via circuit network. but taking that same configuration put it on a space platform using the platform hub or belts or both as the inventory and you get nothing even though the pad and the hub have the same checkboxes as the landing pad... so im assuming the devs set it like that on purpose because of the logistics of rockets. basically you cant request exact amounts for rocket delivery easily and circuit network is used for micro manage so maybe thats why your space platform or ship cannot use circuit network for request even though the same circuit configs are available? hence why space hub doesnt have set request tick?

i attatched photos for reference

+1 here. Also for promethium