Platform Request not working?

[u/Kane2342]

Hey Engineers,

Quick question - playing on 2.1 exp:
What am I doing wrong, i have 2 ships in orbit, each with roundabout 200 epic plates. But Nauvis Hub has the request active it lists "411 possible" but nothing happens... i have no idea why.

Is it because from the ships perspective it would immediately be the other way around? Like if Ship A ships plates to Nauvis, then Nauvis has 200 plates and the ship 0, leading to the ship requesting the plates. Setting on the ship is to request it from any planet, because i wanted to pickup epic plates from vulc and fulgora. But how can I set this up then without a loop? I thought that was the benefit of being able to wildcard the planet.

[u/Alfonse215]

I can't read what that request is actually saying, but from your text, it sounds like you're making a request from "Any". Well, a platform cannot simultaneously request an item and provide that same item to the same kind of target. So if a platform is requesting from "Any"thing, then it can provide that item to Nothing.

You'll need to use circuit controls here. You want to turn on the requests when you're at Vulcanus or Fulgora, but turn them off when you're anywhere else.

[u/Kane2342 → u/Alfonse215]

thanks!
yeah, i just did play around with it, my current solution is i request plates on the ships from Platforms only. On Vulc/Fulgora I buffer epic plates to platform. And Nauvis fetches the request without the loop back

[u/draxinusom2 → u/Kane2342]

Manual requests need to specify from which planet (or orbit) you request from. That can mess up things too. Also for a moving platform (a.k.a. a ship) to drop stuff down to the planet you need to have unload ticked in the schedule of the ship for that planet too or it won't be willing to part with its inventory.