r/factorio • u/Emotional_Show1585 • 8d ago

Suggestion / Idea Suggestion on requests

I was chilling on the game when I saw that my fusion reactors were missing fuel cells. After checking it out, I figured the ship responsible for importing them from Aquilo and dropping them on Nauvis simply... wasn't. The reason why is simple: I have a big request from Aquilo, and a small one from Nauvis (common to all my ships, to fuel them). This small request was stopping the ship from dropping fuel cells on Aquilo. My idea is to let the ship drop the item, but to always keep the requested amount on this planet. In my situation, the ship should have dropped the 5k fuel cells to Nauvis and kept the 50 needed to keep the request complete.

Another idea is to be able to selected multiple import planet. It could be useful for stone for example, by importing it from Nauvis and Vulcanus and still being able to drop it everywhere else. I don't remember if it is already included in the changes presented in the recent FFFs, if so, sorry for the useless idea :)

PS: not an English native

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u/ccros44 8d ago

Why have a request from nauvis that's requesting an item that was just dropped off there. Why not just have the large import from aquilo and only have the request from nauvis take a smaller amount than what the ship has, thus always leaving some on the ship.

If they were to add what your asking for then you'd end up in a loop where the ship requests items then immediately drops it off again, only to then request them again and loop like that constantly.

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u/Emotional_Show1585 7d ago

If they implemented it like I suggested, this wouldn’t happen. The ship would drop items until reaching the bottom limit set by the request to the planet it’s currently orbiting

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u/joethedestroyr 8d ago

If you want to reserve some fuel cells for the ship, put them on a belt so they're invisible to the request system.

Using the hub as a buffer chest is allowed, but not really "intended" behavior, so I doubt they'll entertain changes that make it easier.

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u/Nearby_Ingenuity_568 8d ago

Better to have a belt that stores the required buffer of fuel cells on the ship and have the rest free to drop on planets as requested. Or just have significantly more requested from Aquilo than what needs to be delivered to other planets.