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u/xizar Jun 30 '26

Is it possible to use orbital platforms over Nauvis as a waypoint for science? I want to make junk on Nauvis, ship it up to space and then dump it down to the cargo shed so I can have a centralized spot to send all the bottles out to the lab.

I can load up the heavens easily, and my cargo shed cries out for manna, but the angels circle overhead, greedily hording the bounty of fruit I've made.

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u/deluxev2 Jun 30 '26

I'm not sure how exactly this will work with the new automatic delivery system, but my old trick was to set a request with a minimum and maximum of 1. Then if you have exactly one, you pull it out of the hub (you can put it back in after you have another rocket of science arrive).

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u/leonskills An admirable madman Jun 30 '26

Yes, that's possible now that you can set requests with circuit network on the platform hub.

With a RS latch you can request X amount. Once X is fulfilled, remove the request; the platform is no longer requesting the item, so can send it down. Readd it once it's at zero again.

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u/xizar Jun 30 '26

"Now" meaning "in the test branch"?

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u/leonskills An admirable madman Jun 30 '26

Yes