I have a question about Factorio SA. I'm on my first new Planet. I get supplies from my Spaceplatform. The only problem is, that the requeast is "static". So I have a request for 1k belts. Independent of how much belt I already have on the planet. By now I'm overflowing with belts, as I get always +1k Belts... Is there a way to link my logistic network and the supplie request?
#Dynamic supplies request from spaceplatform possible?
edgy temple
copper haven
I sort of answered that question a couple minutes ago. I'll just link it here. Let me know if you can't figure it out.
It's the same thing: Constant Combinator has the desired amount, Arithmetic Combinator does some trickery to calculate the missing amount.
Assuming logistic requests < 0 are ignored, this should work right away.
edgy temple
Ah the yellow star is my friend. So I have to have an arithemitic value for every stack size? E.g. 50, 100, 1k etc. Like in my picuteres (sorry for HDR color issues and german...)?
Thank you any way very much! It's a bit odd, that there is no simple way in the UI to do that... I think most players would want to do that at one point...
copper haven
German localisation should be no problem, it's almost the same as Austrian 
There might be a different way to do this. What I did with the constant and arithmetic has been designed for managing asteroid chunks.
Manipulating whatever you have in the logistic network has the possibility of "deleting" the request when you remove the last item of that type.
That's why I don't see a way around specifying the desired amount in some way. This can be a Constant Combinator, or items in a chest. You can multiply those constant values to scale them up, if that's easier for you to set up.
Do you request all that stuff show in the Decider Combinator? (Kombinator für Vergleiche - that localised german sucks )
eh, the answer is probably no. You're requesting Pistols. There's no way you want them imported, mainly because we can't make them anymore.
edgy temple
I just found exactly the answer for how to that in Nilaus Youtube Video. I will link it with the exact time stamp it beginns https://youtu.be/qr_Lep5UCJU?si=f8QNhCz0MeRfbJj5&t=1144
copper haven
The Constant Combinator and Arithmetic Combinator are the same thing I do. Except Nilaus is doing it in a way that would work in 1.1.
Hiding the Constant behind the Arithmetic has the advantage that it behaves more nicely during blackouts/brownouts. I set it up that way for my automall.
And the Decider afterwards filters out negative values. Not sure that's required, I never set logistics requests per signal.
oh, and he's using Logistic Groups. Definitely do that. You don't want to set up those item requests more than once.
edgy temple
OK. Cool good to know
New Topic; Do you know if it's possible to get the spacestation to request just the max amount of something (in my case green science) of the planet? As I'm, most of the time, under the max stack limit of 1000 Sience e.g. 580 science, I can only set the slider for request lower then normal in the menu to e.g. 400. That unfortunatly means I will get only 400 science and no way to get the remaining 180 of the planet... I would like to say: Please take as much science as available, even if under 1000 and give it to me and then please go back to Nauvis before it spoils...
copper haven
Can you use a wait condition? Time passed > 30 seconds or something.