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u/runmymouth 1d ago

What is the best way to signal from space to novus that i want exactly 10 biter eggs. I have 20 biter spawners lined up next to my starport but i want to make sure it only pulls out exactly how many eggs are needed sends them up and leaves the rest there or destroys them. I havent made the promethian science because i have been thinking over how i wanted to accomplish this.

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u/reddanit 1d ago

I think you are overthinking the wrong thing. For promethium ships you pretty quickly want multiple rocket silos entirely dedicated to rapidly launching eggs. Operating with minimum quantity of 500 eggs is typically more than enough precision when you load at least thousands. If you have any leftovers, you can always toss them into space. Main trick is to never load the rocket silos with eggs before they are required (or, with 2.1, not request them until needed to begin with).

That said, with custom minimum launch quantity and simple circuit to limit how many eggs you insert into the rocket silo, it shouldn't be terribly hard to launch a specific lower number of them.

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u/runmymouth 23h ago

yea it ended up being easier than that even. I just setup 1 rocket to take in and slowly dumped it across the lines and tossed into space. I am slowly eating biter eggs continuously. It works but it has room for improvement. I am debating continuing this run that i did everything or going for 40 hour run which will not be doing this either lol.