Space Platforms
Re: Space Platforms
How to use :
1)use /cheat all
2)build one
3) put speed x64
4)when lamp is green ship will go to vulcanus
5) you can remove condition
6)watch endless space junk scavenging !
Why :
It's a proof of concept, a space platform designed to make legendary iron ore without using quality modules in the crushers, instead it grab all the iron it can and crush it with efficency module, but then it puts it in a recycler with quality module. If the iron ore isn't legendary, it is throw back to space, if the iron is legendary, it ring the speaker and keep it preciously in the hub. This occurs twice an hour or something with the default level of research given by the command /cheat all. The yield is very low, it only keeps the iron ore that upgrade from regular quality to legendary in a single step, it would be easy to process more of the iron, through several recyclers with a bigger ship, in case of a new version of factorio where the crushers don't accept quality modules anymore.
This somewhat mimicking how you could upcycle the ore directly at the mining drill but instead from space, to illustrate that you don't have to build a whole factory on space, nor any kind of upcycling loop with intermediate products, a very simple design can do the trick.
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Re: Space Platforms
My current runs platforms.
The game gave me Ryan, which I thought was awesome.
Ryan-1
First iteration, a basic satellite. Probably going to refurbish to an all normal quality one, it does work well.
Not much to say, the main difficulty is plugging in wires.
Ryan-2
This was my first colony support ship of the run. There's a pretty low bar on that, all it has to be able to do is run crafts really and I didn't have it do all that much for Gleba. There was a suggestion on here awhile ago to simply capture what you need and use that, on a ship of this scale that works pretty well. Setting up logistics connections appears to be the main difficulty with it, if someone is working on a larger frame and wants to cut a corner they'd use... space that I don't have and rocket logistics I also don't have when this ship was made.
All asteroids are placed on a heap forward of the ship and speed is governed to 80km/s. That makes it safe enough to fly, it has a single ammo box an a short magazine of about 400... magazines
The automall functionality is still manual orders instead of an automatic listing. This combined with the short ammo storage makes an awkward situation where "I don't feel like I do a lot with this scary machine to fly." I needed more basic small supplies which I could hand craft, so I was fine shooting cargo pods onto Gleba randomly and just maintaining a healthy standoff distance from those.
This is more the kind of thing you put together when you run Rush to Space, and even then I feel like it could use 500 more foundation. Managed to get it to use 768. The 1K to 1.5K foundation experience is just better.
The game gave me Ryan, which I thought was awesome.
Ryan-1
First iteration, a basic satellite. Probably going to refurbish to an all normal quality one, it does work well.
Not much to say, the main difficulty is plugging in wires.
Ryan-2
This was my first colony support ship of the run. There's a pretty low bar on that, all it has to be able to do is run crafts really and I didn't have it do all that much for Gleba. There was a suggestion on here awhile ago to simply capture what you need and use that, on a ship of this scale that works pretty well. Setting up logistics connections appears to be the main difficulty with it, if someone is working on a larger frame and wants to cut a corner they'd use... space that I don't have and rocket logistics I also don't have when this ship was made.
All asteroids are placed on a heap forward of the ship and speed is governed to 80km/s. That makes it safe enough to fly, it has a single ammo box an a short magazine of about 400... magazines
The automall functionality is still manual orders instead of an automatic listing. This combined with the short ammo storage makes an awkward situation where "I don't feel like I do a lot with this scary machine to fly." I needed more basic small supplies which I could hand craft, so I was fine shooting cargo pods onto Gleba randomly and just maintaining a healthy standoff distance from those.
This is more the kind of thing you put together when you run Rush to Space, and even then I feel like it could use 500 more foundation. Managed to get it to use 768. The 1K to 1.5K foundation experience is just better.
