Ive got an issue with my planetary logistics so i'm wondering if there's some ideas someone has that could help or some way that i could better set this up.
My logistics system is set up fairly similar to Nilaus's setup, with one ship dedicated to each planet dropping off exports to each one.
For each planet i have a constant combinator outputting the groups that i want on the planet and then i subtract that by the current items in the logistic network.
i setup a few planets, mainly Fulgora and Aquilo, with reactors on them so i dedicated another platform to transporting only fuel for those reactors with the idea that its easily retrofittable if id want to add another reactor to a planet by just adding a new log group for that planet.
My issue is that now that im starting to use reactors for platforms going to and from Aquilo, (i really like reactors), and they are just dumping all of their fuel onto the planets with reactors leaving them stranded. i could just slap a few high tiered solar panels on them so they can make it back to Nauvis to stock back up but if they run out on aquilo they are just stuck there.
is there some sort of way i can blacklist specific platforms from fulfilling certain logistic groups on planets?
can i set it so once the platforms grab up all of their fuel they no longer send any down?
This wouldn't be an issue if all of my reactors are constantly up all of the time but i dont want that "once in a blue moon" platform to run dry on fuel because it felt like it was being helpful when it throws all 50 if its cells to fulfill a planets 499/500 cell deficit.
If its a really simple solution like setting a maximum amount in some logistic group somewhere, and not all these mental gymnastics im thinking it is, i will feel quite silly.
Fission Fuel on Space Platforms Problem
Fission Fuel on Space Platforms Problem
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Re: Fission Fuel on Space Platforms Problem
If you have a request for 0 of an item, the platform will not drop it. Try setting a request for 0 fuel from Fulgora, and see if your platform still drops fuel to Fulgora.
Or, if you have a platform that is supposed to supply Fulgora with fuel, but you don't want to drop all of it so the platform reactor can still run, have a belt with the fuel run to your platform reactor. Then if it drops all fuel, there's still some on the belt, and even a short belt will hold hours of fuel.
Or, if you have a platform that is supposed to supply Fulgora with fuel, but you don't want to drop all of it so the platform reactor can still run, have a belt with the fuel run to your platform reactor. Then if it drops all fuel, there's still some on the belt, and even a short belt will hold hours of fuel.
Re: Fission Fuel on Space Platforms Problem
Another workaround would be to request 1 fuel from the planet where you don't want fuel unloaded, so any platform using a fusion reactor would keep its fuel over Nauvis or Vulcanus or Gleba because it would try to request 1 fuel from those planets and as such even if the planets miss 1 fuel and request it from "platforms" only the platforms not requesting fuel from those will unload.
(supposedly no fuel will be sent from those planet because the request is just 1 so the platform will always have more unless something bad happened ).
That leave you with the need to have a platform configured differently, to distribute the fuel on the planet using fusion reactor, this one platform can be without fusion reactor, or using the belt trick to reserve some fuel, or hold "more" fuel than the biggest request from a planet to make sure there's some left at any point for maximum safety.
(supposedly no fuel will be sent from those planet because the request is just 1 so the platform will always have more unless something bad happened ).
That leave you with the need to have a platform configured differently, to distribute the fuel on the planet using fusion reactor, this one platform can be without fusion reactor, or using the belt trick to reserve some fuel, or hold "more" fuel than the biggest request from a planet to make sure there's some left at any point for maximum safety.