Space platforms should be able to reserve items for itself, even if the planet below is requesting them

[Monochrome]

TL;DR

I want to tell a space platform to never drop all of an item - e.g. nuclear fuel cells - to a planet, and to always reserve some of those fuel cells for itself.

What?

Even if a platform is serving planet requests, it would be very useful if there was a simple & intuitive way to explicitly tell the platform "always keep at least X of [item]". For now I think I can work around this by over-requesting the logistic group on the platform, and being careful with its schedule, but I think it would be a lot cleaner and more user-friendly if there was a way to explicitly reserve items on a platform for itself.

Why?

This is what happened:

• I was working out how to get to Aquillo. I realised that solar was no good, so I gave nuclear a try and to my surprise, there was more than enough ice available (to make water to make steam to make electricity).

• I built a platform, loaded it up and went to Aquillo, via Gleba.

• Gleba has a request for nuclear fuel cells. My platform dutifully dropped them, then continued on to Aquillo, without me realising that the platform had dropped ALL of the fuel cells.

• There was enough residual heat + steam for the platform to get to Aquillo. I dropped to Aquillo and started exploring and dropping items down, when I suddenly noticed that there was no fuel. Which meant that my platform would run out of power and be destroyed.

• Fortunately I save my game a lot, so I ultimately only lost 10-15 minutes. But this was still extremely annoying (and funny)!

[eugenekay]

I want to tell a space platform to never drop all of an item - e.g. nuclear fuel cells - to a planet, and to always reserve some of those fuel cells for itself.

You can “buffer” some Items on a Belt section leading from the Platform Hub to your Reactor. If they are not in the Hub then they can’t be used to fulfill a Request.

Or you can uncheck the “Unload” box in the Schedule.

Good Luck!

[Nadswietlny]

+1

I was working out how to get to Aquillo. I realised that solar was no good, so I gave nuclear a try and to my surprise, there was more than enough ice available (to make water to make steam to make electricity).

You don't need to use reactor to travel to Aquillo - solar panels are fine but in general this requires set quality production beforehand - purple quality solar panels are fine. And of course some space on your platform.

Also i created similar idea for cargo landing pad with requesting items from specific space platforms.