IPL - Inter Platform Logistics

by SirPuck

Use IPL Antennas on your Space Platforms to allow them to exchange items when at the same space location, using cargo pods. Transfer items automatically, using circuits and antennas, directly between space platforms without having to send your items to the ground !

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4 days ago
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Logistics Logistic network Circuit network

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9 days ago

I don't know if this is possible with the current implementation, but the general idea is to add channels (something like in AAI signals, so that the antenna can select the channel it broadcasts on) and have the antennas communicate on designated channels.
When there are dozens of ships, it's very difficult to ensure they don't fly into implicit zones where they get stuck in request-provide cycles.

7 days ago

Hello, while I understand this would be a nice QOL addition, the goal of the mod is to be as lightweight and integrated to vanilla as possible to save performance.
Unless I'm mistaken, nothing prevents you from using circuits to control this behavior.
For instance, you can read where a platform is going to. You can use this information in a latch/switch/memory cell to stop the signal going to either the requester antenna or the provider antenna. Likewise, you can change the value of the thresholds based on other factors.
Using circuits, you should be able to program your platform behavior to achieve your goal.
The goal of this mod is to provide the player with a well known interface (circuit signals) and let the player work around it with tool the player knows. The more skilled you are with circuits, the more complex things you can achieve.

You can come on my discord to chat about strats and ways to achieve your goals with circuits. It'd quite helpful because this question comes around pretty often.

4 days ago

Channels were added in the latest release.

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