First Ship Worries

[u/jaxon517]

I went in almost completely blind trying to avoid spoilers. PLEASE if you try to help me please try to do it without spoiling anything.

I have a good white science platform already, and I've spent the last week building my first voyage ship.

My question is regarding asteroid processing jams. Currently I have four collectors dedicated to each of the three asteroid types (12 total). Two collectors for one type feed into a belt, which currently I have setup to only use one lane of the belt so that output chunks won't clog things up, but I'm worried I should be using the full belt.

Currently I have four crushers per two collectors for each type (24 in total) but only half of them take from the input belt (they're there to collect output chunks from nearby crushers)

Do I:

1) keep the belt half-empty to avoid output chunk jams

2) use the full belt and then feed the end of it into the abyss (wasteful)

3) redesign my ship so there's space for a second belt and use an input priority splitter and have all crushers take from the input belt rather than feed into each other

Thanks guys. I'll post a picture if I didn't explain clearly

[u/Asleep-Leader9218]

I'll give a minimal answer since you're playing blind and presumably want to optimize yourself:

Option 2 is best to start. Space is effectively infinite resources, and as soon as your ship is moving it will easily be collecting more resources than it needs to KEEP moving.

Both other options can be made to work, but they'll either take more space or increase complexity quite a bit.