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 ! Now has a "Hard" mode ! For balance. Optional. Join us on Discord : https://discord.gg/DBW37M34NX

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b Items not transferring

6 days ago

1) The version of your game: 2.0.76
2) The version of IPL: 1.7.8
3) The traceback: not a crash
4) Your modlist: base, elevated-rails, quality, space-age, assemblyanalyst, AutoDeconstruct, Avatars, belt-visualizer, Better_Starmap_Background, calcite-casting, calculator-ui, CleanFloor, configurable-valves, CopyPasteModules, EnableWhen, est-tiny-storage-tank, even-distribution, factoryplanner, far-reach, FarReachPrototypeLevel, Fill4Me, flib, InserterFuelLeech, Inter-Platform-Logistics, kry_stdlib, lightning-collector-equipment, lightorio, load-spreader, mech-suit-flight-speed, ModuleInserterSimplified, molten-holmium, Moon_Logic_2, more-minimap-autohide-017, platform-construction-reader, QueueToFrontLimited, radar-equipment, RateCalculator, Robocharger-Updated, simplified-thrusters, smooth_platform_walls, squeak-through-2, TaskList, UPSFriendlyNixieTubeDisplay, valerian-planets, VehicleSnap, visible-planets, what-items-do-i-have, WireTools

5) What was happening at the moment of the crash: not a crash

THE CONTEXT:

I'm playing on Hard Mode. I have two platforms --a requesting platform and a providing platform-- both orbiting Gleba.

The requesting platform has:

  • 0 tungsten plate
  • a requester antenna connected to a constant combinator that's outputting 1,200 tungsten plate
  • a threshold antenna connected to a constant combinator that's outputting 100 tungsten plate

The providing platform has:

  • 1,150 tungsten plate
  • a provider antenna connected to a constant combinator that's outputting 1,200 tungsten plate
  • a normal quality IPL cargo bay
  • 10 normal quality IPL cargo pods

WHAT HAPPENED:
The provider platform sent at least one load of tungsten plate, but is not sending any more.

WHAT I EXPECTED TO HAPPEN:
I expected the provider platform to continue sending tungsten plate until the request was satisfied, or it had run out of either tungsten plate or normal quality IPL cargo pods.

If you'd like the savegame, I can post it in the "Mods" forum. If you'd like screenshots, tell me what you'd like, and I can post them on Discord.

6 days ago

Hello, from your description, that's not a bug, that's expected behavior. (thank you very much for the exhaustive message !)
Read the description and factoriopedia and/or the mod page documentation for the provider antenna, that should help you understand what's happening.
If you don't get it, please join us on discord here : https://discord.gg/DBW37M34NX

And I'll guide you through it.

6 days ago

Thanks for the fast response, and, honestly, for not just telling me what the issue was. Everything is working now.

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