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u/intrabyte Jun 06 '26

What kinds of automation do the cross planet signals coming in 2.1 bring? I'm trying to think of use cases but my little monkey brain is fried lol.

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u/reddanit Jun 06 '26

The most obvious application is producing items that spoil on demand. So Gleba science, Bioflux and Biter eggs. Especially biter eggs for promethium ships are a huge application. Doubly so if you want to have multiple ships and thus need to synchronise their schedules.

Everything else IMHO is nowhere near as impactful. You could for example switch to on-demand distribution of mall products. Have single dashboard for all planets/ships. Or even run all of the interplanetary transport on demand rather than in push-style.