#Programming Your Space Platform
faint meadow
The "requests" section is kind of perfunctory for me. I usually have all the "programming" for the ship in the "interrupt scheduling" section, usually something like "wait until you have 2000 Gleba Science, then go to Nauvis, then wait until you have 0 Gleba science, then start over". Since I'm already defining how much Gleba Science I want in that section, it's annoying to have to go in the "requests" section and type the information in again.
I'm starting a whole thread here because I'd love to see how other people program their platforms
meager wolf
ah ok
so u mean u just dont wanna keep entering the 2k gleba sci over and over again?
u know about naming the logistic group right?
faint meadow
I do now!
faint meadow
the other use case for an "infinite of this" button is when I only need one shipment of a thing. Most recently I realized it'd be nice to have some recyclers on Gleba to feed alien eggs into. I didn't have a specific number of recyclers I needed, just as many as Fulgora had rockets for at the moment.
crimson nova
oh, you entered 2000 gleba science in the interrupt itself? Just put it into the request group, and use "open requests for planet" as condition
meager wolf
the other use case for an "infinite of this" button is when I only need one ship...
ok i kinda get it. for the recyclers part, seems like a one/few times thing to really want to automate it.
faint meadow
that's what I thought too, but I've wanted one-time shipments of random stuff so often now that I figured I'd ask about it
faint meadow
oh, you entered 2000 gleba science in the interrupt itself? Just put it into the...
I did that and then ran into a weird situation where the ship got to like 1900 science or something and rockets stopped being sent up because the ship didn't need a full rocket's worth or something
meager wolf
yeah its normal
1k for sciences
u request lower than 1 rockets worth, it will send 1 rockets worth anyway
unless u tick that 1 box
faint meadow
yeah I think gleba science was ok, I just didn't want to have to keep checking what a full rocket's worth of each item is.
crimson nova
if there's nnot enough space in cargo it cant request more. but there are ways to prevent this. add a timelimit and make sure it cant loop the interrupt
i did make an interrupt loop prevention, let me search ..
meager wolf
understand. so u just wanna send everything that is available on the planet of that 1 item at that moment. hence the "i wanna request infinite"
faint meadow
gtg for now but I'll pick this conversation back up later.
meager wolf
no problem