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mv21st 18 Jul @ 7:50am
Automatic Interplanetary trade
I have been playing with automating Interplanetary trade and read a few guides/posts and have found it slightly frustrating.
I my objective is to receive Selenium and Blazar Quartz from Selenea, and Phosphorus from Aqualis, can someone tell me all steps required?

**On Selenium**
- Production of Selenium and Blazar Quartz that are programmed to supply
- Drones
- 1 Interplanetary Exchange Shuttle that is programmed to request Selenium and clicked the option sending when full on the actual shuttle
- 1 Interplanetary Exchange Shuttle that is programmed to request Blazar Quartz and clicked the option sending when full on the actual shuttle

**On Aqualis**
- Production of Phosphorus that is programmed to supply
- Drones
- 1 Interplanetary Exchange Shuttle that is programmed to request Selenium and clicked the option sending when full on the actual shuttle

**On Prime**
I have been having trouble receiving resources automatically and indefinitely. Do I need Interplanetary Exchange Shuttles and Planetary Depots? How many? What about the settings of the buildings and the actual shuttles?
Last edited by mv21st; 18 Jul @ 3:18pm
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prtmh 18 Jul @ 8:05am 
I've been working on making most production processes happen offworld and importing those products to Prime.

Example : Place miners on Selenea, produce lots of selenium. Make Exchange shuttles and set to demand selenium. Set to auto launch when full. Drones will fill it as quickly as they can.
On Prime, make a Planetary depot and set it to supply selenium. Make a storage container to demand selenium.

At the moment I am importing all the common ores from Selenea along with the selenium.
I have multiple Planetary depots on Prime to collect and distribute those ores.

On Aqualis I am making phosphorous and silkworms to export to Prime. Once again, using Planetary depots on Prime to collect and distribute to storage.

The idea works fine if your'e not trying to feed too many trade rockets with the system.

P.S. As far as Blazar goes , you can manufacture it with an autocrafter anywhere once you get the recipe.
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mv21st 18 Jul @ 3:22pm 
It seems Trade Rocket Multiplier Fuse do not affect Planetary Depots (on Prime). So you would put the Machine Optimizers with Trade Rocket Multiplier Fuses on Selenea and Aqualis?
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prtmh 18 Jul @ 3:51pm 
Yes, Trade fuses don't seem to work on depots so yeah, speed up production and delivery at the source. I also keep enough drones on Prime to help with the movement of the product to the rest of the central manufacturing hub.
I'm trying out getting irridium,super alloy, and uranium shipped in from Humble, its a work in progress that may not work. :)
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mv21st 18 Jul @ 4:16pm 
Great, thank you
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Spirit 19 Jul @ 1:28am 
i produce literally everything on prime and only have a fertilizer production line on aqualis
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prtmh 19 Jul @ 7:35am 
Hey @Spirit, my oldest save has everything happening on Prime as well.
As an experiment I'm trying to move all baseline product development offworld and import the goods for final processing and storage on Prime.
Fun.. and somewhat challenging.
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prtmh 28 Jul @ 8:36am 
Hey @mv21st , have you got your system up and running yet ?

So far I've got all the common ores as well as irridium,aluminum,uranium,superalloy,obsidian,
phosphorous,selenium,zeolite,osmium,bauxite,dolomite,uraninite,and sulphur all produced offworld and shipped to Prime.

Also have managed to get silkworm,honey,bee larvae,fabric,silk, and algae coming in.
Still working on wheat and cocoa though.
I may have to just bring the cookies in and leave the farms on Aqualis.

I'm keeping all my depots and exchange shuttles at the bottom of the main lake on Prime.
It's getting a little crowded down there. :)
Fun..
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Robirda 28 Jul @ 9:58am 
Originally posted by prtmh:
(snip) It's getting a little crowded down there. :)
Fun..

Lol! I can imagine! You may need to move some specialized ops over to, say, the ponds near the falls or some such eventually perhaps? On the other hand, who needs room to move, eh? ;-D
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prtmh 28 Jul @ 10:06am 
Yeah, there's also the trade rockets down there.
I've been managing to shoe horn them in so far.
I'm trying to keep everything I can under the lake to keep my drones from traveling too far.
The main manufacturing building is on the surface of the lake.

Prime is starting to look nice again on the surface and there's a whole lot of empty caves now that there is no drilling going on.
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Robirda 28 Jul @ 11:38am 
I have to laugh - thinking of you shoe-horning your rockets in brings to mind a certain little girl from Borderlands 2... if you know her you will know this quote...

"...squishy-squishy... squishy-squishy... (*BOOM*) "oops! ... squishy-squishy..."

lol (okay, okay, I know - I have a weird mind sometimes, too right... ;-)

Sounds as if Prime is coming into her glory! Very nice. I agree, it's great to be able to get rid of all that machinery. :-D
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