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TL;DR

Add a button that makes a platform drop everything in its inventory to the planet below.

What?

Add a simple one-click button which can be cancelled. When clicked, the platform systematically drops everything in its inventory to the planet below without any further action from the player. It drops materials as soon as there are slots in the target cargo pad, if there is one, and otherwise just drops them all.

Why?

When starting on a new planet, I'm bringing 250 slots of stuff. I have a cargo pad to receive it. The problem is that it's many different item types so having the pad request them all is very tedious. Also clicking them into the trash manually is quite tedious as you have to wait for it to clear before clicking the next. It would be a lot easier to get all my starter items down if I could just click one button to queue dropping all items.

Request them to the platform with a logistics group and request them to the pad with the same group?