Platform requests not working and UI for wait conditions confusing

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Platform requests not working and UI for wait conditions confusing

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[2.0.32] As many other players I was twisting my brain a lot around wait conditions, both for trains and platforms.

First the name "wait condition" is ambivalent itself. It can have directly opposite meanings: fulfilled condition means waiting (sounds more logical to me), or waiting for condition to be fulfilled before leaving (as the game applies).

On platforms UI gets even more confusing.

"All Request Satisfied" ties to request to planet surface (took me some time to realize, wiki helped)
"Request satisfied" ties to requests to platform (although wiki says it's also tied to planet)

Then the behavior is inconsistent as well... When I changed Electromagnetic plants from 0 to 5 on my platform requests, I received it within seconds. But the request for 100 accumulators is still being ignored, even though there are several hundreds of them and same as the elmag plants they are available in passive provider chest, both chest well within reach of roboports/logistics robots. And my rocket silo is idle. Also the modules requested are all ignored as well, most of them are available in enough quantities. I've added a savefile as well.

Any ideas guys on why the request are not being fulfilled?
What is your opinion on the UI, do you find it clear enough? Any ideas how to improve it?
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Re: Platform requests not working and UI for wait conditions confusing

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The accumulators are set to import from Nauvis, not Fulgora. You have to change the import planet for all items where the game guesses wrong.

That said I also found the "requests fulfilled" set of conditions confusing and will generally just make conditions on cargo amounts.
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Re: Platform requests not working and UI for wait conditions confusing

Post by Adam.Podstavka »

jdrexler75 wrote: Sun Feb 23, 2025 8:52 am The accumulators are set to import from Nauvis, not Fulgora. You have to change the import planet for all items where the game guesses wrong.

That said I also found the "requests fulfilled" set of conditions confusing and will generally just make conditions on cargo amounts.
Oh wow, that is great, thanks jdrexler75! I didn't notice there is a source planet for the requests. Definitely it makes sense for multiple reasons.
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