Just wanna know for when I start the Space stuff.
Orbital platforms that just serve to help connect planets and such. Could they help with refueling and transporting science or whatever?
#How viable are space stations?
quasi arch
wispy kayak
platforms can not interact they only send and recive from the planets . A ship is just a platform that you put engines ,defenses and fuel creation on.
your space science above nauvis you never have to put any defenses or engines on but almost any other you make past that you will need to to get any use out of.
verbal mortar
Yes you can use space stations to drop down ores and other infinite materials as dropping stuff down is free. I turned my space science platform into an iron ore mine.
rancid kindle
Given the cost of building a station it doesn't make much sense to do so though. On the other hand: space science is required to progress and has to be made in space
verbal mortar
Technically the cost is an investment.
rancid kindle
The return time is rather poor given the amount of steel it takes
verbal mortar
But returns it will deliver! Eventually...
Gets better with later tech as you start to get materials like calcite to send down.
worldly skiff
But returns it will deliver! Eventually...
I agree. If it’s free then it seems like given enough time it’s worth it
verbal mortar
The yield is also not that bad. Probably near 30 iron ore or more per second. Which can be priority consumed. For a small platform made for space science.
pale oracle
30 ore/s is a lot in the beginning of the run
it's not a lot when you can build space platforms
that won't stop me though :)
verbal mortar
It is constant, free, though.
pale oracle
You could invest the resources required to build that platform into a couple miners and a train instead. ROI would be much higher. Not free, and not forever. But the higher ROI gets you even more miners.
worldly skiff
How big are we talking for 30 per second? Can you go bigger to like 3k per second? Lol Factorio all about the scaling
verbal mortar
How big are we talking for 30 per second? Can you go bigger to like 3k per secon...
Has issues scaling like that. You would need many platforms.
The density is quite low in orbits to discourage that sort of thing.
Size does apparently increase it a little, but not a super amount.
worldly skiff
Ah darn
pale oracle
You can make a moving platform to collect the asteroids in transit I guess. Yield should be higher.
worldly skiff
I have yet to get into space
quasi arch
platforms can not interact they only send and recive from the planets . A ship i...
so could i use a platform just to send and receive items from planet to planet, assuming you can send stuff both ways
wispy kayak
Yes, if you have engines and defenses on a platform(sometimes called a ship) you can have it pick up items from nauvis for example and deliver it to Gleba and pick up items from gleba back to etc