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Sounds similar to viewtopic.php?t=134822 but please read further. Not the same!

TL;DR

Requests at space platform should default to "import from all sources".

What?

Setting up space logistics is not really straight forward, there's lots of hinkles and wrinkles. Now with 2.0 we got nice additional options. Import from source shouldn't be shy and set the most useful option as new default.
Currently, after setting a new request at a space platform, we have these options:

• import from specific planet only(default)

• import from any planet *

• import from platforms at specific planet only

• import from platforms at any planet

• import from All (both planet and platforms) at specific planet (my suggested default)

• import from All (both planet and platforms) at any planet

Why?

The default setting, without any additional user input, should be the most useful or at least what most people would want to use.
I am convinced this would be import from anything at specific planet. Currently, every single request need to be clicked to set the option to both platform and planet. In big logistic setups this gets tedious fast and might be easily overseen by players not that deep into logistic options. It's possible to change it later but it's not very clear in the tooltip how it's set up. Need to double check every single request in a multiplayer world to troubleshoot:

Spot the difference:

Exceptions?

I don't see any major downside with having "import from ALL (both planet and platforms at specific planet)" as default. Platforms need to have the option checked to allow sending items to other platforms, they won't send all their stuff to requesting platforms and even if this is checked and every request in the universe to request from all sources, everywhere, stranger platforms wouldnt loose because if they request something of their own, they don't send.

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* in case you don't know how to set a request to any planet