It makes sense to be transporting huge amounts of simple things like fluids and ore. There is no need to be transporting 2000 particle colliders, that's enough to cover the entire planet! There are many buildings that are only worth storing or hauling 100-500 in total, but it is so difficult to pixel hunt those tiny values.

If towers could hold 100 stacks of everything in the resources tab (x5 for liquids), and 10 stacks of everything in the building tab, that'd be pretty close to ideal storage values.

Spending a logistic slot on warpers is a bit silly, but at least the tiny logistic bots can do that without wasting the slot.

There is never any reason to use the small logistic towers. They need the same footprint as large towers, but are less useful in every way. The large towers are excellent for handling all tasks in system. They only suffer transport issues when selecting targets outside the solar system. The problem is they'll max out their queue on long distance resources, which can block them from restocking locally, so they'll stall. It's a fairly minor issue, easily fixed in base design by having dedicated long distance towers.

Originally posted by Bobucles:

There is never any reason to use the small logistic towers. They need the same footprint as large towers, but are less useful in every way.

They cover the same area of ground -- but you're allowed to pack PLS far more closely than ILS. So they have a smaller footprint of mutual exclusion.

You can limit the amounts ( minimum amounts is what you want) for the ILS carriers to carry in the settings when you select the ILS (along with power etc etc). This will limit everything for that ILS though so it is a use as needed function and i think it should be able to be used for specific slots to be more useful.

Originally posted by Tommyk:

* The amounts are hard to set (sliders are tiny with no num-field)
* minimums vary widely (planetary is 100 ships and interstellar 25 ships).
* Setting the maximum with already set minimum overwrites the minimum

It would probably be better if they also listed the number of inventory slots, so
100 (1), 200 (2), 300 (3) and 25 (1), 50 (2), 75 (3) in the above case
at points 1 and 3: yeah the slide from the left for minimum and slide from the right for maximum with tiny sliders is annoying/error prone, but fortunately for me I don't have to set it too often and "have fidget spinners take away dark fog junk Icarus picked up" is a simple setting the item in the free slot(s) and swipe left to keep zero...

How could that be missed by gameplay QA?
Why was it not fixed? It has been pointed out many times?
Do you not play your own game?

devs, PLEASE fix it! Thank you very much

Unfortunately the 5(?) devs are at the other side of the Great Firewall of China and can't read these Steam discussions here. If you want them to read your suggestion, try the DSPDiscord.

Originally posted by robfilrhijar:

You can limit the amounts ( minimum amounts is what you want) for the ILS carriers to carry in the settings when you select the ILS (along with power etc etc). This will limit everything for that ILS though so it is a use as needed function and i think it should be able to be used for specific slots to be more useful.

Note that this only limits the minimum the ILS drones and vessels will carry. It doesn't restrict the maximum.

So if the ILS is full and you've got the minimum load set to 1% a logistics vessel will still take a full load (up to 2000) items even though you've allowed it to leave with as few as 20 items (or fewer, depending on how much you've upgraded its cargo capacity)

If you want to limit the maximum a ship will carry you need to restrict the amount of items the ILS will store, so the ship will empty it out and leave with only a partially filled cargo hold.

Originally posted by josmith7:

Originally posted by robfilrhijar:

You can limit the amounts ( minimum amounts is what you want) for the ILS carriers to carry in the settings when you select the ILS (along with power etc etc). This will limit everything for that ILS though so it is a use as needed function and i think it should be able to be used for specific slots to be more useful.

Note that this only limits the minimum the ILS drones and vessels will carry. It doesn't restrict the maximum.

So if the ILS is full and you've got the minimum load set to 1% a logistics vessel will still take a full load (up to 2000) items even though you've allowed it to leave with as few as 20 items (or fewer, depending on how much you've upgraded its cargo capacity)

If you want to limit the maximum a ship will carry you need to restrict the amount of items the ILS will store, so the ship will empty it out and leave with only a partially filled cargo hold.

Aye, I set most buildings to the absolute minimum, but I usually have a storage buffer, so I'll have my buildings going into a storage box that will hold say 1000 and then into the ILS which is set to 100, that way when I request buildings I only get 100, but if I need more then there will be more pretty much immediately available.