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Is there any way to detect if/which ships/platforms are currently precent in orbit?

I might want to have some production on a planet (possibly Gleba) start only when a ship arraives, mainly to minimize spoilage.

I guess you could solve it by having the landing pad request something specific that the ship in question has and detect when that is present. But it seems cluncy...

Nope sadly, the requests are the only way to communicate between platforms and planets (and no way to communicate between platforms and other platforms, or planets and other planets).

You could also have the platform request something, and connect a circuit to a rocket silo and enable "read requests"

IsaacOscar wrote: Tue Dec 03, 2024 1:14 pm You could also have the platform request something, and connect a circuit to a rocket silo and enable "read requests"

This sounds promising, I'll experiment with that. Thank you!