idle aquilo ship

[frozen herald]

my ship is sitting idle over aquilo but the rockets run out and my ship is getting ran through by the big asteroids.
How do I set a condition where, if my platform has no rockets, then it takes the path to another planet so it can collect items and refill on rockets?
If that doesnt make sense I'll elaborate.

[long marten]

It would probably be a better idea to setup reprocessing

[bronze dove]

as asked, have your aquilo stop done condition include a condition for ammo being low
if the next stop isn't normally ammo, add an interrupt to check for low ammo (AND at aquilo) to go to where you want for rockets

easier to just make rockets in aquilo orbit - it gives you a ton of resources to work with
ice chunks process twice as fast - including for rerolling into other chunks

[frozen herald]

ye im making them in orbit but when its not moving, its using up a bunch of rockets
and not enough carbon is coming in for reprocessing

thats what i meant
im making the rockets on the trips

i just dont know how to make it go back and forth

type shi

[frozen herald]

if its possible can we hop on vc so you can show me

[bronze dove]

are you using rockets on just the large asteroids or all?

[frozen herald]

big ones

filtered

[bronze dove]

and explosive vs normal?
and do you have enough research for less rocket usage?

[frozen herald]

normal

wdym by research ?

[bronze dove]

explosive damage research makes rockets do more damage

same cost, more damage

[frozen herald]

i dont think so
whats it called

[frozen herald]

but the problem is that its using up rockets while the production cant keep up
since carbon slows down when the ship stops

[bronze dove]

rocket consumption also goes down when the ship stops

and yes, the problem is that it's using up too many rockets and can't keep up

one way to fix that is use less rockets to let production keep up

less rockets per asteroid = less rockets used

[frozen herald]

are you saying i should use the explosive rockets ?

[bronze dove]

if dealing with extremely dense asteroids it can help

[frozen herald]

i rather just send the rocket to the planet so, while on the path, it can get more rockets

unless explosives are way better

but i dont want to move things around on my platform

[bronze dove]

normal rockets are fine for normal settings

[frozen herald]

so how do i send the platform on the path
cuz its sitting idle and using up all the resources for rockets

[bronze dove]

ideally get rockets to 1 shot the big asteroids, but 2 shot is a bit more realistic until much later

[bronze dove]

set the station exit condition

[frozen herald]

idk how to do that

[bronze dove]

OR
  rocket < threshold

how have you been controlling your space platforms?

[frozen herald]

with circuits

but this feels more advanced

[bronze dove]

circuits is harder by far

[frozen herald]

i try to minimize the use of circuits

or with conditions

but i dont know how to do this

[bronze dove]

which part do you not know

have you done anything with trains before?

[frozen herald]

basic stuff

[bronze dove]

so you know how to add a train schedule to a train?

[frozen herald]

its on the belts

i dont know how to read from belts and make the platform move accordingly

[bronze dove]

attach a wire from the belt to the hub
select the belt, select read all contents

[frozen herald]

ya

can we vc ?

[bronze dove]

in your stop condition, put

OR
  circuit(rocket < N)

in another call

you can post pictures as you go though

[frozen herald]

where

oh

this ?

[bronze dove]

yes, but OR

not AND

[frozen herald]

ahh

type shi

thank you 👍

wait

[frozen herald]

where do i put the circuuit condition

[bronze dove]

you set it on fulgora

are you using rockets on fulgora?

i thought you had issues above aquilo

[frozen herald]

what

aquilo

on the aquilo -> fulgora path and vise versa

you know what i mean

i just want the ship to go back and forth

so i just set the number and im good ?

[bronze dove]

yes, in the right spot

your image has it in the wrong spot

[frozen herald]

where do i put it

[bronze dove]

when you want to leave aquilo goes in the aquilo section

go to <planet> and sit there until
  <conditions> have been met

[frozen herald]

what

[bronze dove]

(?)

you have three planet stops

aquilo, nauvis, fulgora

you put it on fulgora

you wanted it on aquilo

[frozen herald]

like this

[bronze dove]

your aquilo leave condition is checking that ammo exists

"ship has ammo" -> "leave aquilo"

[frozen herald]

yeah the number is off but im just seeing if everything is in the right spot

[bronze dove]

yes, but i would put the "ship has plenty of ammo" right before aquilo, at nauvis

unless you have better passive chunks at fulgora and want to use those

instead of letting it craft while flying

[frozen herald]

what do you mean by this

this is what i have now

[bronze dove]

if it has 500 rockets at fulgora hopefully it still has 500 rockets at nauvis

[bronze dove]

when is it important to have 500 rockets by?

[frozen herald]

crazy stuff happens in space

[sweet mist]

Design the ship to run 100% of the time. So much more reliable.

[frozen herald]

how do i do that

[sweet mist]

By making sufficient ammo production to keep them running.