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Could you add a one-time request feature for space forms? This is how it works.

There are items that do not need consecutive delivery. For example, I want to add 4 rocket silos on Vulca. So I added 4k concrete on a spaceship that connects Naubis and Vulca. (Vulca is producing other items.) After the cargo was dropped, it would be better to delete the request because I do not want to keep the 4k amount of concrete on the ship. I have to delete it manually now.

So it would be better to have an option like 'create temp drop.' When a player uses the option, a temp-01 request is automatically created on a ship. The player can set temp-01 request on a cargo landing pad on a desired planet. After the request was fulfilled, temp-01 is deleted automatically.

TL;DR
in a space ship, allow for putting ghost items into the drop slots to drop specific low quantity item counts a single time
What?
Allow ghost items to be placed into spaceship drop slots. This would make it possible to specify small, exact item quantities that are dropped once, instead of requiring a full logistics request.
Why?
space logistics is a mess, especially when handling low frequency of items or tight resource margins (which is important in speedruns) but i firmly believe this is a good feature to alieviate the current effort you need to go through when dropping just a few items (add item request, set minimum to 0, set max to current item count minus the amount you want to drop, wait for drop to happen, delete request; and god forbid any item count changed in the interim.