How do you automate interplanetary deliveries?

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How do you automate interplanetary deliveries?

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Per the post title, I cannot figure out how to automate interplanetary deliveries.
I have a space platform that travels between planet A and planet B. Now what I want to do is set a schedule to get Widgets from planet A's logistics network to planet B's logistics network. How do I do this? There's no indication, in-game, of any method of setting things up to accomplish this task. There must be some hidden mechanic I am missing.

I can tell a space platform to request an item, and I can tell a planet's cargo landing pad to request an item. But I can't unset the space platform's request when it gets to planet B, so that planet B can take the goods, can I?

Thanks for help.
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Re: How do you automate interplanetary deliveries?

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When you make a request in a space platform you specifically say which planet you want this item to be picked up from - check by hoverig over it or editing the request.

If you pick up from planet A you only will pickup from that planet, not also from B where you are delivering to.


What helped my figuring it out was hovering over stuff in the space platform, either the item icons or the red dots or reading the text above the inventory. Ot often tells you if you are missing rockets or landing pads or have nothing configured to recieve etc.
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Re: How do you automate interplanetary deliveries?

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ezylot wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2024 8:56 am When you make a request in a space platform you specifically say which planet you want this item to be picked up from - check by hoverig over it or editing the request.

If you pick up from planet A you only will pickup from that planet, not also from B where you are delivering to.


What helped my figuring it out was hovering over stuff in the space platform, either the item icons or the red dots or reading the text above the inventory. Ot often tells you if you are missing rockets or landing pads or have nothing configured to recieve etc.
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