[2.1] Clear "Auto request missing construction materials" in patforms after some time

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[2.1] Clear "Auto request missing construction materials" in patforms after some time

Post by worph »

TL;DR
Automatically requested items on space platforms should not stay requested forever at "0" amount.

What
Please implement a feature where items that were requested at one point will be removed from that list every so often.
You could do it (visually) like in the new labs.
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Clarification
Imagine the Utility Science Pack was an item that had been requested in the past and was at 0 (i.e. fully satisfied).
Now some countdown is running down, at least a minute, maybe more, maybe user-configurable.
Once that countdown is over, the item is cleared from this list.

Why
The main problem with the current system is that the item that was requested in the past is now unavailable to other space platforms forever*.
(*so long as the option "Auto request missing construction materials" is enabled. Sure, you could just disable that option once you are done building. But I feel like it's useful to keep it checked, because in this game you are doing small adjustments every now and again anyway.)

This way the items that were requested automatically in the past can be made available to other platforms again automatically, too.
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Re: [2.1] Clear "Auto request missing construction materials" in patforms after some time

Post by Amarula »

+1
To me it would be logical to clear a construction request immediately on being satisfied. I ask for 200 foundation, they arrive, done, removed from request queue. If I make another construction request, it is a new request, not an update to the old one.
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Re: [2.1] Clear "Auto request missing construction materials" in patforms after some time

Post by worph »

Imagine you are actively modifying a platform. Adding and removing foundations as you go.
At the same time you have queued up another platform to be constructed autonomously.

A situation could occur, where you remove a foundation. It immediately gets send to the other platform and now you cannot undo the thing you just did for a few minutes. Even worse when something gets send down to a planet, for some reason.
Buffering the requests would certainly make the whole process less cumbersome in some aspects.
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Re: [2.1] Clear "Auto request missing construction materials" in patforms after some time

Post by sarge945 »

I already made a similar thread about this and I concluded that the current system is VERY confusing - one checkbox can essentially block the other, which is NOT how checkboxes work.
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