How the hell do you use Launchpads properly??? Help!

[Homar]

If you were to converge all of your resources into a single sector and direct exactly how much you are outputting, it unstably calculates how much you send away. So if I choose just to output 15k silicon for 10 seconds, I move to another sector and then back to the base only to find I have absolutely none left even if I powered off the launchpads.

But If I were to have multiple launch sectors I would struggle to create all the resources and If I did I would output such a small amount it would halt the game to a crawl.

I really have no clue what the best way of using them would be and they are entirely crucial to the endgame. Help!

[lonesh33p]

Launchpads cause a lot of confusion. Someone (who, me?) should make a guide, or add a section to a pinned message, or something. A couple of threads on the topic:
Launchpads: can you export over production rate?
having to reset production rate

[Freeborn]

a normal launchpad use 400 items per min ... and you can "power" for more speed

and if you din´t have the production for the item you will use the core storage ... but if you din´t have the item in your storage the paunchpad din´t work ( off sector )

[RestlessBear]

Half the time I unload from the core and make it go directly to the launchpad.. I wish there was a way to make it tell all launch pads target current map. Instead of going one by one into each sector and changing locations.