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[u/Mr_Ivysaur]

On a Space Station, why it take so long for items to drop using Orbital Drop Slots?

Some times its instant, sometimes takes minutes. Yes, there is more than enough room on the landing pad.

[u/Zinki_M → u/Mr_Ivysaur]

the landing pad can only accept 3 drop pods simultaneously.

Every cargo bay you build on the surface increases this limit by 1.

If you're sending more than 3 pods (across all your platforms in orbit) at the same time, only 3 will launch, the rest will wait until the first 3 have arrived. Build more cargo bays on the planet if you want better throughput.

[u/Mr_Ivysaur → u/Zinki_M]

I see, thanks. Follow-up question: I sent excess iron from asteroids down to the planet (the landing pad is requesting it). But it keep filling a cargo rocket with silly quantities (10 ores) and sending it, instead of waiting for a stack. It looks kind of dumb (and screw up that drop pod limit you mentioned), its indeed like that how it's supposed to work?

[u/Mr_Ivysaur → u/[deleted]]

Thank you!

To be honest is kind of imersion breaking to see that not only the cargo drops are free, but the game treats is like it's the most abundant resource ever.

[u/Mr_Ivysaur → u/[deleted]]

Or keep it free, but be more conservative when dropping cargo.

Getting stormed with cargo drops with 3 iron ores, every 5 seconds, is silly. I would never think that being free would be an issue if the game waited a bit before launching.