Planetary logistics request from multiple planets

[Cronie]

When requesting items for interplanetary logistics, you can only choose one planet. It would be much more usable and convenient if you could choose multiple planets. Right now I am working on a platform that will need walls and I want to be able to import them from Nauvis OR Vulcanus, but I can't ... it will only pick them up at one.

Please consider changing this, thank you

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[eugenekay]

You can use Multiple Logistic Groups to achieve this, with one per Planet. You still have to set “Import from” individually which can be a hassle, but it works. I use this to keep Space Platform Foundation tiles in-stock from each planet that is visited.

Good Luck!

[Khazul]

I have often wished I could set the source planet at the group level instead of having to set it for every item - annoying number of extra clicks.

[Cronie]

You can use Multiple Logistic Groups to achieve this, with one per Planet. You still have to set “Import from” individually which can be a hassle, but it works. I use this to keep Space Platform Foundation tiles in-stock from each planet that is visited.

Good Luck!

I haven't tried this, but I think the main problem would be keeping track of all the duplicated quantities and having to change them in 2-3 places every time you want to alter the total. I can envision this getting very messy if you have more than a dozen requests

[eugenekay]

I haven't tried this, but I think the main problem would be keeping track of all the duplicated quantities and having to change them in 2-3 places every time you want to alter the total. I can envision this getting very messy if you have more than a dozen requests

I have not had any issue there - 1 stack of Chemical Plants is plenty for any reasonable asteroid damage, for example. I set each Request to the Minimum per Rocket, and it "just works". The total number of items kept in the Platform Hub ends up being the Sum of all Requests, but I have plenty of Cargo Bay space.

[Cronie]

I haven't tried this, but I think the main problem would be keeping track of all the duplicated quantities and having to change them in 2-3 places every time you want to alter the total. I can envision this getting very messy if you have more than a dozen requests

I have not had any issue there - 1 stack of Chemical Plants is plenty for any reasonable asteroid damage, for example. I set each Request to the Minimum per Rocket, and it "just works". The total number of items kept in the Platform Hub ends up being the Sum of all Requests, but I have plenty of Cargo Bay space.

I think it would work fine if if everything always produced at full capacity and there were no shortages or problems and I never forgot to make changes to all the extra requests. But it is an inelegant solution and it seems like the solution I proposed would be relatively straightforward. We used to have to have dedicated fuel schedules for trains, but it was inelegant and when interrupts were added it was universally loved.

[Heniker]

So I finally had enough of clicking through menus to set planet filters and wrote a mod. It also allows to import items from any planet without setting up multiple logistic sections.
It is also possible to update logistic requests group from a different UI (e.g. player or cargo pad) and have the correct filters be set on the space platform.

Check it out - https://mods.factorio.com/mod/planet-request-group