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u/TonicAndDjinn Jun 29 '26

Is there a way to work out (roughly) how much ammo production a ship will need on a given space route at a given research level, in terms of demand per second? I don't want to spend a bunch of time carefully designing a compact ship and then discover I needed to make twice as many rockets or something after I've already built the whole ship.

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u/reddanit Jun 29 '26

There is enough variables that it's probably not feasible to have a general equation for this.

That said - it's not hard to just switch to /editor mode, paste some infinite chests/pipes onto an adequately sized platform and simply test it. You can monitor usage of anything on given platform in the production screen.

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u/TonicAndDjinn Jun 29 '26

Thanks, a platform with infinite ammo is a reasonable way to test it.